BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Executive Directors
Judd Peck
Chairperson
Danville Metal Stamping Co., Inc.
Vicki Stewart President/CEO
Vermilion Advantage, NFP
Steve Holliday First Vice Chairperson
Old National Bank
Mike Hulvey Vice Chairperson
Neuhoff Family Broadcasting
Alice M. Jacobs Past Chairperson
Danville Area Community College
Jim Mulvaney Secretary
First National Bank of Danville
Melissa Edington Treasurer
Danville Polyclinic, Ltd.
Patrick DeSutter Director
NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc.
Ted Leverenz Director
Leverenz Automotive
Louis Mervis Director
Mervis Industries, Inc.
Bob Swires Director
Swires Land Management
Directors
Jim Anderson
First Midwest Bank
Wes Anderson Anderson Electric, Inc.
Randal Ashton Randal Ashton, DDS
Craig Campbell First National Bank of Danville
Dean Carlton Heritage Development Services, Inc.
Dave Cocagne Vermilion Development, Inc.
Jerry Connolly Aqua Illinois, Inc.
Dean Crandall The Crandall Group of Merrill Lynch
Doug Cunningham Teepak, LLC
Ed Czerwinski CCL
Custom Manufacturing, Inc.
Bill Dalbey Quaker Foods & Beverages – Local 347
Porter Daniel Central
States Distribution Services
Gerry Donnelly Village Mall Shopping Center
Steve Duckett Allied Waste Industry, Inc.
Scott Eisenhauer City of Danville
Mike Farmer SBC
Dr. David Fields Retired Executive
Chalmers Flint Vermilion County Mayors’ Council
Lisa Fudge Workforce Investment Board
Jerry Geren Cellular One of East Central Illinois
Kevin Green Verm. County Soil & Water Conservation
Dean Grimes Community Bank of Hoopeston
Gary Hackler WICD-TV News Channel 15
Tom Hanrahan Walgreens Danville Accounting Center
Chris Hanson O’Neil Brothers Construction Company
Jerry Harper Iroquois Federal Savings & Loan
Denise Harrison Illinois Power Company
David Henwood Cannon Cochran Management Services
Steve Laker Vermilion County Health Dept.
J. Mickey Lay Bunge Milling, Inc.
Todd Lee Vermilion County Board
Gary Ludwig Heartland Insurance Agency
Dr. John Mason Retired Executive
Phillip Morgan Danville Sanitary District
Mary Morrison Insight Communications Midwest
Julie Mullen-Lester Accent Health Care Corp.
Carol Nichols Commercial-News
George Piasecki American Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac
Alan Puzey Agriculture Representative
Robert Randall Robert W. Randall, Inc.
Dr. George Richards Danville Foundation for Industrial Growth
Joan Richards Carle Clinic Association
Don Ritter Danville Bldg. & Constr. Trades Council
Mary Pat Shepherd St. Paul’s Grade School
Ted Swanson Big R Stores
Henry Taylor McLane Midwest Co., Inc.
Joe Thomas Thomas Excavating
Jim Trask Regional Office of Education
Dr. Gary Tucker Danville School District #118
James Walter Walter Danville/ Henning Machine
Terri White WhiteSmith Marketing Group, Inc.
Fred Whitman E. Central IL Community Action Agency
Mark Wiener Provena United Samaritans Medical Cntr.
Kerry Wienke Vermilion County Farm Bureau
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Contact:
Vicki Stewart
Vermilion Advantage
28 W. North Street
Danville, IL 61832
217-442-6201
vstewart@vermilionadvantage.com
www.vermilionadvantage.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Vermilion Advantage Nominates Kevin Stroud
of NexLAN for the 2004 Illinois Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year® Award
5 April 2004 --
For 18 years, Ernst & Young has sponsored
the global and Illinois Entrepreneur of the Year program, which recognizes
business leadership, innovation and perseverance. This year, Clifton Gunderson
is also a Co-Sponsor of the award.
An independent panel of judges evaluates
the nominees based on financial measurements as well as vision, people
philosophy, and commitment to their business and community. The Illinois
winners will be named at a gala black-tie awards banquet in June in the Grand
Ballroom of Navy Pier in Chicago, and will then advance to the National awards
program held in November in Palm Springs, California.
Vermilion Advantage is proud to nominate
Kevin Stroud, founder of NexLAN in 1998, for his ingenuity and hard work in
creating a national-level successful business here in Vermilion
County. “It’s important to recognize talent and success right in our own back
yard,” said Vicki Stewart, President of Vermilion Advantage. “Few people in
the local area are aware NexLAN even exists, yet dozens of companies
nationwide, from mom and pop shops to divisions of Fortune 500
companies, depend on NexLAN’s accounting/manufacturing software expertise.”
Stewart also noted NexLAN’s efforts as the only Microsoft Certified Partner in
Vermilion
County and their five consecutive years as the major sponsor of the Kennekuk
Kids Run.
“I was surprised when approached; but as my
associates in the Academy say, ‘it is an honor to even be nominated!’,”
quipped Stroud. “Seriously, the past 6 years have been tumultuous times in
the business technical consultancy market, from the Y2K frenzy to the Dot Com
Bust,” he continued, “and our success is owed entirely to the team I’ve been
able to put together. THE asset of a company such as ours is the people.”
Kevin graduated Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology in Terre Haute at age 20 and then spent 9 years with the National
Security Agency while earning his Master’s Degree from
Johns Hopkins
University. In the mid-90s, Kevin entered private industry when he moved to
Danville to serve as the Director of Computer
Operations for the local Greenwood, Inc. family of businesses, before founding
NexLAN.