Council for Entrepreneurial Development

About Council for Entrepreneurial Development

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. In July 2005, Wilmington’s Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina’s entire coastal region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance.

Among CED's annual programs are four major conferences (www.cednc.org/events/conferences), including a successful 23-year series of Venture conferences that annually draw 700+ attendees (including 250-300 investors from throughout the United States). Past CED conference keynotes have included Robert Johnson, Founder and CEO, Black Entertainment Television; David Rubenstein, Founding Partner & Managing Director, The Carlyle Group; David Holveck, President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corp.; Senator Bob Dole, former Presidential candidate and current Special Counsel for Alston & Bird LLP; Robert Ingram, Vice Chairman of Pharmaceuticals of GlaxoSmithKline; Mike Krzyzewski, Men's Basketball Coach, Duke University; Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, State of New York; and Jim Goodnight, CEO, chairman, co-founder and president, SAS Institute.

CED is also an organizational partner in the successful SEBIO Venture Conference series (www.sebio.org), which rotates throughout the Southeast (hosted in Research Triangle in 2000 and 2003).

Since 1986, Monica Doss has served as President of CED. During her 20-year tenure, CED has grown to become the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the United States, with 4000+ members representing 1100 member companies, and an annual budget of $2 million. Doss has received both local and national recognition as an industry leader. She was awarded the 1999 National Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Supporter of Entrepreneurship category and serves as a National and Regional Judge, received the 2003 Goodmon Leadership Award, and the 2004 Triangle Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award. Doss is actively involved in numerous and diverse professional and educational organizations. Doss currently chairs the North Carolina Public Radio WUNC Community Advisory Board, is an executive committee member of Southeast BIO as well as a Director of the North Carolina Bioscience Fund. She is a chairman and CEO of the Entrepreneurial Education Foundation based in Kansas City. She co-chaired the Entrepreneurship and Technology Committee for the Research Triangle Region's Future Cluster Competitiveness Initiative and currently serves on the North Carolina Nanotechnology Planning Committee. She is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurial development and building innovation-based economies.
Office Address: 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 101
Durham, North Carolina 27713
Last Updated: 04-21-2006