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KTEC
Names Joni Cobb as President of KTEC PIPELINE
| KTEC
has announced Joni Cobb as president of the KTEC
PIPELINE, KTEC’s newly formed technology
entrepreneurial fellowship program. Cobb will
work closely with Trish Costello, founder of the
KTEC PIPELINE and former CEO of the Kauffman Fellows
Program, to identify talented and entrepreneurial
Kansans - match them with best-in-class training,
resources and
mentors - and encourage the PIPELINE “Innovators”
to build their companies in Kansas.
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“This is a tremendous opportunity,
and I am honored to be a part of building this groundbreaking
program for Kansas,” said Joni Cobb, KTEC PIPELINE
President. “With the strategic guidance of Trish
Costello, Kansas is well on its way to building a ‘best
in class’ program for training and supporting
our top technology talent. I am thrilled to be a part
of these critical formative months and moving the program
into its future."
“Joni’s background as an entrepreneur and
her expertise in strategy, communications and accessing
networks makes her the ideal person to lead the PIPELINE.
She’s had a key role in the success of many of
the state’s entrepreneurial and bioscience efforts
and will bring that innovative mindset to the development
of KTEC PIPELINE,” said Trish Costello, founder
of the KTEC PIPELINE. “I am very pleased that
we’ve attracted someone of her caliber for this
important program.”
Cobb spent the past six years building her own Kansas
company, Cobb Communications LLC, which provides comprehensive
business planning and strategic communications’
services to companies and organizations such as KTEC,
the Kansas Bioscience Organization, Truman Presidential
Museum & Library, Union Station Kansas City, Eisenhower
Presidential Library, Kansas Healthcare Access Coalition
and the Statehouse Restoration Project. In 2005, she
was recognized as one of Ingrams Magazine’s “40
Under Forty” for her company’s work. Cobb
received her bachelor’s degree in economics and
political science from the University of Missouri-Columbia,
and thereafter earned her law degree from Washington
University School of Law in St. Louis.
“Joni has worked closely with KTEC on a number
of related initiatives, specifically in the technology
and bioscience sectors,” said Tracy Taylor, President
& CEO of KTEC. “Everyone who works with Joni
mentions her ability to execute a plan in a top flight
way. With Joni’s leadership, teamed with Trish
Costello’s vision and strategic direction, Kansas
will ensure we retain our best and brightest innovators.”
The KTEC “Innovator” recruitment is closing
in on its critical last few weeks, with an application
deadline of June 30, 2006. With the KTEC PIPELINE, Kansas
is the only state today that is systematically identifying
their top technology talent and connecting them to become
future leaders.
Click
here for more information about the KTEC PIPELINE.
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