MIT AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin

Named Finalist in New England Business and Technology Association Awards Program

July 2003

On June 18, Dr. Joseph Coughlin, Director of MIT AgeLab, was been named one of 20 finalists in the New England Business & Technology Association’s "New England Business and Technology Awards" program at its 2003 Technology-Enabled Business Summit. He was one of 900 nominees for the award.

The "New England Business and Technology Awards" program recognizes New England business and technology leaders who have made significant strides in the development, deployment or utilization of information and Internet technology in business, academia or the public sector. "Chosen from large and small businesses across all industries, these twenty finalists are all innovators who are successfully advancing the reality – and the benefits – of the ‘technology-enabled business,’" said New England Business and Technology Association president Tom Hopcroft.

Other finalists for this year’s "New England Business and Technology Awards" include:

• Paul A. Bleicher, Chairman and Founder of Phase Forward
• Dick Cantwell, Vice President, The Gillette Company
• Francis deSouza, CEO and Founder, IMlogic
• Michael DiFranza, President, CEO and co-founder, Captivate Network, Inc.
• Jonathan S. Bush, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, athenahealth
• Thomas R. Gleason, Executive Director, MassHousing
• Dr. Burt Kaliski, Chief Scientist and Director, RSA Laboratories
• Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Corporate Director, Partners Telemedicine
• Kevin Laracey, President and CEO, edocs, Inc.
• David Litwack, Senior Vice President of Web Application Development Products, Novell, Inc.
• Jim Melvin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mazu Neworks
• Leon Navickas, Chairman and CEO, Centra Software
• Dean Polnerow, President and Founder, Switchboard Inc.
• Richard Reese, Chief Executive Officer, Iron Mountain Incorporated
• Professor Sanjay Sarma, Chairman of Research, Auto-ID Center
• Shirley Singleton, President & CEO, Edgewater Technology
• Mary Skipper, Founder and Director, TechBoston
• Mark VanderWerf, President - AMD Telemedicine
• Massood Zarrabian, President and CEO of OutStart, Inc.

"The New England Business and Technology Awards provide significant value by celebrating our New England heritage in the application of technology to solving critical business issues," said Hopcroft "The community defined by our finalists, past winners, and all past and future entrants represents the commercial and technological leadership driving the New England economy to be the best in the nation."

The ten 2003 New England Business and Technology Award winners will be announced at a special awards banquet on October 8.