Top Female Entrepreneur to Address Techpreneur
Kathy White to Give Insights into Female Entrepreneurship
March 21, 2006
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 21, 2006) - Successful, high-ranking female entrepreneurs are few and far between anywhere in the world. Fortunately forArkansans Kathy Brittain White, Ph.D. Is the exception, and as luck would have it - she has strong connections and commitments to our state, white will share her success story on Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at 7:30 a.m. during the Techpreneur meeting in the Uttle Rock Chamber of Commerce Conference Room, located on the corner of Markham and Scott streets, in Little Rock.
White has a lot to say to male and female entrepreneurs alike. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, White graduated with a doctorate in management from the University of Memphis. She used her education In a number of different ways, including work as:
Associate professor of information technology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro;
Vice president of corporate services for Guilford Mills, Inc.
Vice president for Information systems at AllledSignat Corporation
Corporate vice president and CIO for Baxter International
Executive vice president and chief information officer for Cardinal Health post acquisition of Allegiance
Healthcare, where she oversaw one of the largest installations of advanced, integrated information
systems of any industry
White's outstanding accomplishments also brought her recognition in:
Forbes magazine 2001 list of "Top 25 America's Businesswoman"
Computerworld magazine 1998 list of the "25 IT People to Watch"
PC WEEK'S 1997 "Top 10 ClOs In America"
Information Week's 1997 "Top 10 ClOs in the United States-
Open Computing's 1994 "Top 100 Women in Computing."
White is founder and president of Rural Sourcing, Inc., an organization developing information technology employment in rural communities. She also founded Horizon Institute of Technology that supports technology outreach initiatives in rural America.
Don't miss this terrific opportunity to meet a world-class leader In IT who is making a difference in rural America.
Breakfast is served free of charge and there is no admission fee.
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