The Center for Innovative
Technology's GAP Fund was
named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the Top 100
Venture Capital Firms in the nation. The GAP Fund was
sixth highest on the list, which was based on the number
of early-stage deals in 2005, and was the most active
early stage investor in Virginia. (News release)
Women Impacting Public Policy,
a national bipartisan women's business group, honored
three Virginia businesswomen for the rapid growth of
their firms during the last five years. Three of the
five recipients of the Fast 5 Award were from Virginia. Named were Catherine Giordano, president and CEO
of Knowledge Information Systems in Virginia Beach; Norma
Byron, president and founder of Ashlawn Group
in Alexandria; and Lani Hay,
president and CEO of Lanmark Technology Inc. in Fairfax. (News release)
John Hewitt, CEO and founder of Liberty
Tax Service in Virginia
Beach, has been named to Accounting Today's Top 100
most influential persons in the tax industry. This
the sixth consecutive year Hewitt has been named
to the list. (News release)
McGuireWoods, a Richmond-based
law firm, tied for third place among the country's
top 14 law firms for litigation practice in a survey
of general counsels of Fortune 250 companies, conducted
by GeneralCounsel magazine. (News release)
Edward W. Pence Jr., senior vice president
at the Virginia
Beach engineering firm Stroud, Pence & Associates,
has been elected chairman for the Council of American
Structural Engineers. Pence earned engineering degrees
from Virginia Teach and Old Dominion University. (News
release)
The International Economic Development Council honored Virginia's
Gateway Region for having the Outstanding General
Purpose Web Site for organizations servicing populations
of more than 200,000. The group's newly redesigned
site, www.gatewayregion.com, was cited as
a centralized, state-of-the-art resource. (News
release)
Colonial Williamsburg Hotels was
awarded a 2006 Gold Key Award by Meetings & Conventions magazine
based upon recommendations of the magazine's readers
for professionalism and quality of the property. (News
release)
