A New Era Begins At The MTBC
Bill Sproull Takes Over As President / CEO
Having already met his new staff and settled into his new office, Bill Sproull was ready on Monday, Oct. 11 to begin his tenure as president and CEO of the Metroplex Technology Business Council.
Just the second chief executive in the history of the MTBC, Sproull replaces Ron Robinson who retired in August.
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High-Tech Transfusion
Fall Membership Drive Pumps New Blood Into MTBC
The MTBC recently welcomed 57 new members thanks to the hard work of more than 100 high-tech executives who participated in the MTBC’s 2004 fall membership drive.
Joining during the event held Oct. 5-7 at the University of Texas at Dallas' School of Management, were companies specializing in all facets of technology from across Texas and the United States. For a full list of the new members, see New members in this issue of Tech Link.
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Who's Who In The Telecom Corridor® Area
Paul Peck's Labor Of Love Turns Into Major Online Database
In the late 1950s when Collins Radio attracted the first generation of engineers to the area by moving much of its defense communications business to Richardson, and Eugene McDermott, J. Erik Jonsson and Cecil Green were building Texas Instruments a few miles to the south, they surely never imagined the area would grow into one of the densest high-tech areas in the United States.
Since then thousands of technologists have worked in what is today known around the world as the Telecom Corridor® area. Some come and go and some spend their careers here.
Paul Peck, vice president of operations for Covaro Networks and a member of the MTBC's 3rd Friday Steering Committee, is one of those who has spent his career in the Telecom Corridor®, and his passion for the people and the history of the area is evident.
Nearly two years ago he began putting together a family tree of the Telecom Corridor®.
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