In the early 1990s, Deborah Wood started a one-person
medical education and information business. Today, Deborah
Wood and Associates, a Carmel-based firm with 90 employees,
serves preferred customers such as Eli Lilly and Co. In
that same decade, R. Birch Dalton of Kokomo diversified
WIS Sheet Metal, Inc., launching four new companies for
high-tech production of medical devices. Inventor Tasha
Phelps of Fishers started an E-business, Phelco, Inc.,
to promote her first patent pending technology product
in the music industry.
These business owners will share their success stories
during the third annual North Central Indiana Entrepreneurship
and Technology Professional Development Conference Thursday,
Oct. 2, at IU Kokomo. The conference runs from 11:30 a.m.
to 6 p.m. and is co-sponsored by IU Kokomo’s Division
of Continuing Studies and School of Business, along with
the Purdue University School of Technology at Kokomo,
and numerous commercial and development entities with
local and statewide ties. For information, call 800-991-1459
or visit this Web site: http://www.iuk.edu/scs |
