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Rusine Mitchell-Sinclair is the senior state executive for IBM's operations in the Research Triangle Park--the largest IBM site in the world--and the company's other locations across the state. She also serves as vice-president of strategy and implementation of the company's Global IT Delivery division, which helps IBM's clients run their technology systems and data centers in this country and around the world. Mitchell-Sinclair is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile.
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James H. Ammons, Chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He has been the University's leader for the past five years.
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Felton Capel, the founder of Century Associates of North Carolina, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He is an award-winning executive, an honored civic leader, and a former town councilman in Southern Pines. He received the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's University Award and has been inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame.
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Scott Custer, CEO of RBC Centura, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. In his twenty-seven-year banking career, he has worked for only two companies--Wachovia and RBC Centura. RBC is based in Toronto, Canada, and acquired Rocky Mount-based Centura in 2001. Custer discusses his work and RBC Centura's plan to move the company's headquarters to Raleigh. The bank is the largest U.S. subsidiary of the largest Canadian bank.
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Seeking an education, Nido Qubein emigrated to North Carolina from Jordan in 1966. He graduated from High Point University and received a master's degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1973, he started his first business: writing and publishing leadership materials for schools and camps in thirty countries. By 1977, he was giving 200 motivational talks a year. This grew into Creative Services, the international consulting firm he owns today. He is chairman of Business Life in Greensboro; Great Harvest Bread Co., a 218-store national chain; McNeill Lehman, a public relations firm; and Southern National Bank Corp. In 2004, he was named president of High Point University. Since then he has raised almost $70 million for the private university and changed the school's culture with unorthodox methods, such as hiring a “Director of WOW†and arranging valet service for students.
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William L. Roper, CEO of UNC Health System, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's executive profile. Roper was named to his current position in March 2004, after serving for seven years as dean of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
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John Atkins III, incoming chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) board, is profiled. Atkins is co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of O'Brien/Atkins Associates, one of the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area's largest architectural and engineering firms. Among his priorities are creating the best business climate in the nation and a world-class education system that produces a highly skilled, well-prepared workforce.
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8.From Breaking Things to Making Things by Wood, Suzanne M. North Carolina Vol. 65 Issue 2, Feb 2007
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Wood profiles Mark Munday, CEO of Elster Electricity. The company sells electric metering products and systems and services to utilities and industries around the world. Munday is a technical innovator who knows how to manage, inspire, and motivate people.
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9.Exceptional North Carolina Women Leaders by Wood, Suzanne M. NC Magazine Vol. 65 Issue 4, Apr 2007
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There are many successful businesswomen in North Carolina. Wood chose six to highlight as exceptional women in business. They are Sue Cole, principal of Granville Capital, a Greensboro-based investment company and chair of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center board of directors; Mary Clara Capel, administrative director of Troy-based Capel, Inc., the nation's largest importer and manufacturer of area rugs; Susanna Gibbons, a partner in Poyner & Spruill, a 106-attorney firm in Raleigh; Dr. Maureen Hartford, president of Meredith College in Raleigh; Ellen Ruff, president of Duke Energy Carolinas; and Drew Putt, president of RBC Centura.
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The growth of the biotechnology industry in North Carolina has taken the state to third place nationally in the number of biotech jobs. The state has almost 400 biotech companies employing over 48,000 people with an economic impact of $3 billion a year. Wood examines this growing industry that is supported by a strong infrastructure.
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North Carolina has an ambitious biofuel production goal. Legislation introduced into the General Assembly this spring calls for 10 percent of the liquid fuels sold in the state to come from biofuels grown and produced locally. Wood discusses what scientists and businesspeople around the state are doing to lessen North Carolina's dependence on foreign oil.
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Edward T. Carney, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Global Government Solutions Group in the Research Triangle, is featured in NC Magazine's executive profile.
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For one week every April and October the world's furniture manufacturers and retail buyers come to the High Point Furniture Market, the world's largest furniture expo. Business transactions are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the local economy benefits by $1 billion. Wood describes the strength of the state's furniture industry as it moves into the twenty-first century.
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Wood discusses three mayors who lead large metropolitan cities--Pat McCrory (Charlotte); Keith Holliday (Greensboro); and Charles Meeker (Raleigh).
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East Carolina University graduate Shirley Carraway, 1975, 1985, 2000, planned a career in business, but switched her major to education. During her thirty-two years in the field she has been a speech therapist, assistant principal, principal, and school system administrator. She will retire as superintendent of the Orange County Schools on October 1, 2007.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 6 Issue 1, Fall 2007,
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