Joan Siefert Rose to Become New Leader of CED
2008-05-29 01:38:19 -
www.cednc.org - The Council for Entrepreneurial Development Cassandra Cranston, CED Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications, 919-633-9734; ccranston@cednc.org The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Joan Siefert Rose, general manager of WUNC-FM, has been selected to become the new president effective August 11, 2008. CED officials made the announcement at today's regular meeting of the board.
Rose has been a CED board member for the past four years and has helped the organization form a key partnership with WUNC-FM. "I am excited about this opportunity to take an important organization to the next level," she says. "The Research Triangle benefits from a robust climate for business innovation and CED has been at the center of it for nearly 25 years. This is the perfect time to look ahead to the next 25 years promoting and expanding entrepreneurship in our region."
Rose became general manager of North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC in 2001. She oversaw a strategic planning process that led the station to change its format later that year to news and information. Since then, the station's audience has grown and the staff and annual budget have doubled in size. A successful capital campaign completed in 2007 provided new broadcast studios at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, the creation of the nationally distributed program The Story with Dick Gordon, and the establishment of the "Innovations Desk" for the public radio program Marketplace. Other significant programming achievements include the hiring of former NPR newscaster Frank Stasio to host the midday interview program The State of Things, and a news department that was honored with the DuPont-Columbia Journalism award, the broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Rose spent 15 years in commercial radio in North Carolina and Michigan earlier in her career. She also worked in health care planning and marketing prior to joining public radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1997. She has an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master's degree in public health from the University of Michigan. She lives with her husband, Jim, and their two sons in Chapel Hill.
"We are excited that Joan will be joining CED to carry the organization through its next 25 years and we are grateful to Monica Doss for 22 years building and creating the great foundation upon which we will go forward," states Mary U. Musacchia, chairperson of the board of directors. "Joan's strengths in collaboration and great connection to the Research Triangle community will help CED spread its message."
"It is with great pleasure that we announce Joan as the new CED president," says Steve Nelson, co-chair of the search committee and a partner with Wakefield Group. "I have had the opportunity to work closely with Joan over the past three years on the WUNC-FM community advisory board. Her work was exemplary and accomplishments were many. The entire search committee is convinced that she will be a great asset for CED."
About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle, North Carolina and Southeast region. Since 2001, CED has helped triangle-area companies raise over $2.6 billion in venture capital. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. For more information, visit www.cednc.org.
Announcement Made at May 28 Meeting of the Board
