News Release
January 24, 2005 Contact: Jim Malone, Editor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPhone: 617.241.4331
Mass High Tech Honors New England Based Women
(Boston, MA) – Mass High Tech has announced the honorees in the 2005 Women to Watch program, in which 10 New England-based women in fields from biotechnology to software are honored as future leaders and innovators. “These women will shape the future of their industries, while serving as role models for young girls going into science and engineering,” said Mass High Tech Editor Jim Malone.
This year’s awardees are:
Angela Belcher, professor, materials science, MIT
Margrit Betke, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies, Computer Science Department, Boston University
Anne Marie Biernacki, founder and chief technology officer, The Digiticians
Vicki Ann Frawley, vice president of operations, Target Software Inc.
Heidi Perry, leader of the software division and principal member of the technical staff, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Elizabeth Ricci, vice president of engineering, Authoria Inc.
Hollie Schmidt, vice president of scientific operations, Boston Cure for Multiple Sclerosis
Paula Soteropolous, vice president of program development and strategic development, Renal Division, Genzyme Corp.
Lorraine Wheeler, founder and CEO, Botzam Inc.
LiJun Wu, executive director, cardiovascular, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
This year’s honorees were judged by their peers to possess demonstrated leadership abilities; the ability to think creatively and develop new opportunities with regard to business or the commercialization of technology; and have served in an active role as an inspiration to others or as a mentor. Awardees in academia have worked on research that has been, or soon will be, commercialized.
The program, in its second year, is co-chaired by Trish Fleming, executive director of the MIT Enterprise Forum, and Anne Taylor, managing editor of the Catalogue for Philanthropy.
This year’s awardees are set to be honored at an event at 6 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Ritz-Carlton Boston. To register for the event, go to or call Kelley Crowley at 617-241-4352.
Mass High Tech’s 2005 Women to Watch Awards program is sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, and Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
The February 21, 2005 edition of Mass High Tech will feature an in-depth special section on the 2005 Women to Watch winners.
About Mass High Tech:Mass High Tech is a regionally focused business and technology newspaper, reporting on the people, businesses and issues involved in turning innovative ideas into products and services for the global marketplace. Mass High Tech is the only business-to-business publication in the region with an editorial staff focused entirely on technology companies.
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