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Thursday, May 12, 2005
Recap: West Michigan's Framework for Innovation 

For those that attended, they were treated to a short, productive networking session, followed by a brief welcome and announcements from our president Jeff Meyers.

The courtyard space behind Tre Cugini, in downtown Grand Rapids, provided a nice backdrop to the event presented by glimaWest on this evening.

$1,500 scholarships were awarded to two different area students who are pursuing degrees in technology related fields. It was the first year that one of those scholarships went to a high-school student entering into an area college.

After the scholarship presentations, Birgit Klohs from the Right Place, Inc. presented her views on West Michigan's Framework for Innovation. Birgit always provides excellent insight into the economic development challenges we see in the West Michigan area, and how The Right Place and local businesses are responding in these uncertain, though, improving economic times. A lengthy question and answer session also proved to be very productive.

Elections for open board positions were also held at the May event. The following were elected to the board ...

  • Gregory Gronbacher, Quixtar Inc.
  • Bob Kreha, NuSoft Solutions
  • Matt Maslosz, Kforce Technology Staffing
  • Frank, Masotta, BDO Seidman, LLP
  • Randy Shier, re-elected to an appointed board seat.
  • Katie Dalman, re-elected to an appointed board seat.
  • Jeff Meyers, re-elected to his appointed President seat.

    You can link to the Board of Directors page to see the complete list of board members