Georgia Tech Researcher to Head New Samsung Center U.S. Sen. Chambliss Named BIO Legislator of the Year Solvay Pharmaceuticals Names New Vice President for Commercial Operations ING U.S. Appoints New Chief Operations Officer of its Life Business Group Manahattan Associates Appoints New Vice President, EMEA Charlotte Official to Be Honored by Germany
Georgia Tech Researcher to Head New Samsung Center
Chang-Ho Lee, formerly with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Georgia Electronic Design Center, is to head the Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. design center.
The center is to develop next generation radio frequency integrated circuit technology and is to be located at the Georgia Tech center at the university’s Technology Square campus in Midtown. It is to become the company’s principal North American research location and is to eventually include the development of a new packaging technology.
“Samsung’s choice of Atlanta as the location of its new research design center will be beneficial to all parties involved,” Dr. John Endicott, president of the Korea Southeast U.S. Chamber of Commerce and director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy at Georgia Tech, told GlobalAtlanta.
“…I am pleased that the U.S. Korea relationship can be fostered by such beneficial business and technology agreements. The naming of Georgia Tech researcher Chango-Ho Lee as the center’s head ad the Georgia Electronic Design Center as its venue will take full advantage of Georgia Tech as a research center for nanotechnology and other areas in which the Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. sees its future.”
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. is a member of the Samsung Group, which recently surpassed Hyundai Group as the No. 1 business group in South Korea. The group is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies. For more information, go to www.sem.sammsung.co.kr and www.gedcenter.org
U.S. Sen. Chambliss Named BIO Legislator of the Year
The Biotechnology Industry Organization has named Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., as its “Legislator of the Year” for 2004-2005.
Biotechnology industry representatives from Georgia presented the award to Mr. Chambliss in Washington last week as part of the Bio Legislative Day event.
We applaud Senator Chambliss’s support for biotechnology research and development,” said Georgia Biomedical Partnership President Charles Craig.
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Names New Vice President for Commercial Operations
Jean-Louis Anspach has been named vice president, commercial operations, at Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. where he will be responsible for managing all aspects of Solvay Pharmaceuticals’ primary care business unit including sales and marketing activities for its specialized marketes and cardiology portfolios. Go to www.solvaypharaceuticals-us.com
ING U.S. Appoints New Chief Operations Officer of its Life Business Group
ING U.S. Financial Services has named Paul L. Mistretta to be its chief operations officer for the U.S. Life Business Group. In that capacity, he is to be responsible for the technology, customer service and underwriting function for the company’s life insurance business. He will be based at the company’s headquarters in Atlanta. Go to www.ing.com
Manahattan Associates Appoints New Vice President, EMEA
Manhattan Associates Inc. has appointed Steve Smith to the post of vice president, EMEA, overseeing company operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will report to Jeff Baum, Manhattan Associates’ senior vice president, international. The appointment follows Manhattan Associates’ seventh straight year of growth in both revenue and employee numbers in the region. Go to www.manh.com
Charlotte Official to Be Honored by Germany
German Consul General H. J. Brunner, who is based in Atlanta, will be in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, April 26, to present Michael Almond, president and chief executive of the Charlotte Regional Partnership, with Germany’s Federal Cross of the Order of Merit. Mr. Almond is a co-founder and current board member of the European-American Business Forum. A former partner with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Mr. Almond has served as legal counsel to many German companies operating in the Charlotte region.