Comings & Goings

Tony Antoniades, manager of the Advanced Technology Development Center in Atlanta has left that program after nine years to accept a position with AutoTrader.com. Antoniades was elected to the NBIA Board of Directors in 2003 and re-elected in 2006; in that time, he was chairman of the Strategic Directions Task Force and second vice chairman of the Executive Committee. The board will appoint a replacement to serve the remaining 18 months of Antoniades' term.

Sandra Cochrane became a technology business consultant for the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center in Grand Rapids on March 1. Previously she was COO of the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center in Kalamazoo, which was NBIA's 2006 Innovation Award winner.

Doug Lee is the new managing director of the WESST Enterprise Center in Albuquerque, N.M. The program will open its doors later this year in a 37,000-square-foot facility now under construction. Lee was executive director of the Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge from 2001 to 2006. He left that program in November 2006 to become COO of Sustainable Community Development in Kansas City, Mo.

Mark Long will step down as president and CEO of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. effective March 30. Long is the founding director of the Indiana University Emerging Technologies Center, whose companies have created more than 350 jobs at an average salary of $89,000 over the past four years. Long will remain a special adviser and consultant to the university through the end of 2008.

Jane Tabachnick is the new director of NY Designs Design Business Center at LaGuardia Community College in New York City. A fashion designer by training, she previously worked in entrepreneur and small-business support with the Industrial Technology Assistance Corp. She succeeds Mary Howard, who left the program to pursue consulting projects in green energy.

Brenda Wyland is the new manager of the mic Center for Technology Enterprise at North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. Previously she was econodevelopment director for the Southeastern Council of Governments in Sioux Falls, S.D. The previous manager, Terri Zimmerman, left to focus on her consulting business.