Last night, the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network announced the winners of the 2008 Tom Holce Awards for entrepreneurship at its 15th annual awards ceremony. The award for individual achievement went to Doug Fieldhouse of Portland, OR-based Vesta, an electronic payment firm. The development-stage company of the year was Hillsboro, OR-based ClearEdge Power. The working-capital stage winner was Beaverton, OR-based security firm ID Experts. And the winner of the growth-stage category was optics firm nLIGHT of Vancouver, WA.
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Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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