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Tech Titans Finalists Buzzing with Excitement at
Pre-Gala Event
The Tech Titans finalists joined in a pre-gala celebration on Wednesday,August 29th, exactly one month before thegala. The finalists were joined by sponsors from Deloitte, AeA, Texas Instruments, The Insource Group, Alliance Systems, BizNet Software, Cisco Systems, UTD, Richland College, DBJ, and M/C/C among others. The finalists also had a chance to thank some of their nominators for the honor.
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| Barry Nalls, 2006 Tech Titans winner, shares how it has been an honor to be one of the elite winners. |
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The Pre-Gala event was sponsored and hosted by TWL Productions in their Carrollton facility. The event was great fun for everyone as we escorted the finalists in and out of the production studio to film their moments of fame, to be aired at the Tech Titans Gala on September 29th at the InterContinental Dallas Hotel.
Barry Nalls, 2006 Emerging Company CEO Award Winner
and president and CEO of Masergy, shares with the finalists how being a Tech Titan winner has been such a great honor for him.
2007 TECH TITAN AWARDS FINALISTS
CORPORATE CEO AWARD
Patrick Brandt, President & CEO,
Skywire Software
James H. Buchanan, President & Founder,
Buchanan Associates
Anthony J. Parella, President, CEO &
Corporate Director, Shared Technologies Inc.
Rashid Skaf, President & CEO,
AMX
EMERGING COMPANY CEO AWARD
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Gearbox Software founder and president, Randy Pitchford, gets ready to film his 30 second introduction for the Gala. |
Douglas J. Bartek, President, CEO &
Co-Founder, Tango Networks
Reagan Dixon, President,
Lumenate LLC
Jon Hopper, President & CEO,
Xtera Communications, Inc.
Andrew Levi, CEO & Chairman,
Boardroom Software Inc.
CORPORATE HORIZON AWARD
Gearbox Software
InnerWireless
4G Business & Ecosystem Development,
Carrier Networks, Nortel
Sun Microsystems
EMERGING COMPANY HORIZON AWARD
Authentix, Inc.
Oryon Technologies
RipCode Inc.
Tango Networks
INNOVATOR AWARD
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That's not a robot, that's Dr. David Hanson, president and CEO, Hanson Robotics! |
Dr. David Hanson,
Hanson Robotics, Inc.
Leonard Lopez,
Estill Medical Technologies, Inc.
David Moxam,
Authentix
Richard Timmons, Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Arlington
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTER
7-Eleven
American Airlines
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Southwest Airlines
TECHNOLOGY ADVOCATE
EduCorp Training & Consulting, Inc.
MLink Technologies, Inc.
North Texas Regional Center for
Innovation & Commercialization
Silicon Valley Bank
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Tegwin Pulley, VP, Workforce Diversity & WorkLife Strategies, Texas Instruments, listens for direction from TWL's production staff. |
COMMUNITY HERO AWARD
Patrick Brandt, President & CEO,
Skywire Software
Tegwin Pulley, Vice President, Workforce,
Diversity & WorkLife Strategies,
Texas Instruments
Steven Raab, CEO,
The Insource Group
Gurvendra Suri, CEO,
Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc.
TITAN OF THE FUTURE AWARD
UNIVERSITY LEVEL
Arts and Technology,
University of Texas at Dallas
George A. Jeffrey NanoExplorers,
NanoTech Institute,
University of Texas at Dallas
The Digital Games Guildhall at SMU,
Southern Methodist University
The Infinity Project,
Southern Methodist University &
Texas Instruments
TECH TITANS OF THE FUTURE
HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL
Barbara Flickinger
J.J. Pearce High School, Richardson ISD
Neil Milburn
Plano East Senior High School, Plano ISD
Deanna Shea
Shepton High School, Plano ISD
Ken Taylor
Lake Highlands High School, Richardson ISD
AeA TEXAS LEGENDS AWARD
Gene Frantz, Texas Instruments
Bill Hunt, Andrews Corporation
George Platt, ViewCast
Pike Powers, Fulbright & Jaworski
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