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WOW Your Customer with Service

NACET — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:13:23 +0000

Trish and Jamey from the BelleWether Group chat about their upcoming NACET lunch time Seminar; “WOW your Customer with Service”. Listen as Jamey and Trish go over all high points of their seminar. Feel FREE to bring your managers and employees to the seminar. Make sure you RSVP for this seminar, it will fill up for sure. Hope to see you here.

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NACET — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:03:56 +0000

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Joe Byers Speaks at First Series

NACET — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:20:31 +0000

NACET was extremely excited to have Mr. Joe Byers, CEO of client Ambature and former VP of Hewlett-Packard as its first Executive Speaker on January 28th. Mr. Byers discussed his work at HP and how technology has changed over time. He also discussed how companies have to respond to defend, license and develop their own intellectual property. The 70 plus people attending began asking questions within the first 10 minutes and continued a lively interaction for the duration of the discussion. The Executive Speaker Series is a partnership between NAU’s College of Business and NACET with the Flagstaff Chamber, City’s Economic Vitality Division and SBDC as supporting agencies. The series is designed to allow the community to hear firsthand business stories from some of the world’s top business leaders.

Opening Doors for Small Business…

NACET — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:42:05 +0000

On February 06th President Barack Obama in his “Weekly Address” reiterates his commitment to small business as the engine of our economy. President Obama uses Flagstaff’s very own Southwest Windpower as a great example of what can be done from a job creation standpoint if there is funding available to small businesses. The President describes how SWWP has sold over 160,000 wind turbines world wide all being manufactured right here in Flagstaff Arizona. SWWP is a client of NACET and utilizes the NACET facilities to train their dealers from all over the world. 24 dealers every month come into Flagstaff for 5 days to train on SWWP wind products. SWWP is the largest small turbine manufacture in the world.

Below is an excerpt from President Obama’s “Weekly Address” talking about Southwest Windpower.

NACET Names New President

NACET — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:19:03 +0000

NACET, the Northern Arizona Center for Emerging Technologies, has named a new president. Russ Yelton is moving to Flagstaff from Asheville, N.C. where he’s the executive director of a business incubator.
NACET is a technology incubator. The public-private partnership supports new companies with reduced rents, workshops and administrative services. NACET’s roots go back to 2001 when a group was formed out of the Greater Flagstaff Economic Council. NACET opened a 10,000-square-foot building last year with offices and state-of-the-art lab spaces.

Lavelle McCoy, Chairman of NACET’s Board of Directors, says the incoming president has an impressive list of accomplishments. McCoy says Yelton has been running a successful 141,000-square-foot incubator operation that McCoy describes as significantly larger than Flagstaff’s facility on Switzer Mesa.
Yelton is replacing Tom Rainey who came to the Northern Arizona Center for Emerging Technologies
nearly two years ago. McCoy says the incubator was lucky to have Rainey. “He did a spectacular
job of getting the incubator off the ground,” said McCoy.

Yelton says he looks forward to taking the incubator to the next level. “It’s exciting for me to see you have a new building there and the opportunity to build a new program,” he said. “I enjoy building
things from the ground up.”

The collaborations between NACET, the City of Flagstaff and Northern Arizona University impressed
Yelton who is looking forward to the possibility of working with the Navajo Nation.
He said he has been following the economy in Flagstaff and says it is times like these when an incubator like NACET can mean the most to a community.

Yelton was one of three finalists selected from dozens of applicants for the NACET position. He begins his new job July 27th.