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Welcome by Edward S. McKersie President Pro
Search, Inc. Chair, USM Corporate Partners
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10th Anniversary Message John Ferland President
MCED
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Featured Speaker  Diane Sammer, President
CEOEmergent Music, LLC of Portland

• The Portland companys product is Goombah, a
  web-based service for music discovery. Goombah
  connects people to music and each other based on
  their taste, and was recently named one of the
  Top 100 Most Useful Websites by The Guardian and
  "New Technology of the Year 2007" by MESDA.  She
  was also co-founder of Systems/Link, which was
  named by Inc. magazine to the "Inc. 500 list of
  the fastest growing companies in the U.S." and
  Diane was featured in Wireless Week magazine as
  one of 24 "Enterprising Women of Wireless." Diane
  is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of
  the Small Enterprise Growth Fund, a state-funded
  venture capital fund. She has also served as a
  judge for the University of Southern Maine
  Student Business Plan Competition.
• www.emergentmusic.com
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Graduated Company CROSSRATE TECHNOLOGY

• CrossRate Technology is a leader in high
  reliability position, navigation, and time
  receivers. Through its application of patent
  pending eLoran technology, coupled with GPS,
  CrossRate is helping to secure Americas critical
  national infrastructure and keep people safer
  while they work and play.
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(Zachariah Conover)
www.crossrate.com
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Graduated Company FRONTIER ENERGY

• Frontier Energy is the first full-service oil
  company in the nation to offer retail bioheat
  fuel, and Maine's first distributor of blended
  Biodiesel for transportation. Frontier supplies
  blended  biodiesel fuel to LL Bean, Dragon
  Products, and the municipalities of Portland,
  South Portland, Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, and
  Scarborough, and is a major wholesaler of
  Biofuels to numerous downstream
  marketers throughout New England.

(Joel Glatz and Brad Taylor)
www.frontierenergy.org
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Graduated Company MEDICREATIVE

• MediCreative provides graphic web design
  services to medical professionals to help doctors
  create a brand identity and web presence for
  their practice. MediCreative was one of the
  finalists in the 2006 USM student business plan
  competition and a 2006 Libra Future Fund grant
  recipient. In November, to better service her
  growing client base of businesses outside of the
  healthcare field, Becky launched iBec Creative -
  a web and graphic design company geared to the
  needs of businesses.

(Rebecca Stockbridge)
www.medicreative.com www.ibeccreative.com
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THANK YOU To our SPONSORS
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Sponsors (L-R) Steve Ransom of Ransom
Environmental consultants, Leslie Arnson of
Arnson Environmental Safety, Greg Fryer of
Verrill Dana, Jere Shaw of Evergreen Credit
Union, Ralph Hendrix of MacDonald Page Co.
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(L- R) MCED Board of Directors attending Aileen
Cahill, Steve Ransom, (MCED Director John
Ferland), Valarie Lamont, Ed McKersie, Leslie
Arnson, Jere Shaw.
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CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!
(top L-R) speaker Diane Sammer, Emcee Edward S.
McKersie,, MCED Executive Director John Ferland
(bottom L-R) Michael Leathem Zachariah Conover
of CrossRate Technology, Rebecca Stockbridge of
Medicreative, Joel Glatz Brad Taylor of
Frontier Energy