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May 7, 2007

Agnes Scott President Elizabeth Kiss Inauguration Held April 20

Web-Conferencing Company Growing Int’l Business with Denmark-born Rep.

Atlanta-based IT Outsourcing Company Hires Representation in Washington

Georgia Appoints Liaison Officer for Digital Entertainment

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Agnes Scott President Elizabeth Kiss Inauguration Held
April 20

The inauguration of Elizabeth Kiss as the eighth president of Agnes Scott College in Decatur on April 20 had a decidedly Hungarian cast.

Not surprisingly, since Dr. Kiss, who is the youngest of three daughters of Eva and the late Sandor Kiss, was born in New York after her parents escaped Hungary following the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

Both parents were political prisoners; her father, a historian and member of parliament, was imprisoned by both the Communists and the Nazis.

Even Goncz Arpad, Hungary’s president from 1993-2000, wrote a letter of congratulations, which was read at the ceremony.

“It is my conviction that in you the college has gained a leader who will be respected for her democratic frame of mind, her human dignity, her ethical conduct and her enthusiasm for teaching, learning and scholarship,” the letter said in part.

“As I write these lines, many old memories come back to me. I see before my eyes your father and recall our shared struggle for human rights in a soulless world. I can almost hear our words of farewell, ‘God be with you!’ when your mother and sisters set off for the big world as refugees in 1956.

The world has changed immeasurably since then. What I would give for my beloved and respected comrades in arms to have lived to see Hungary’s democratic transformation! But I am proud that those who left their homeland as children or were born in a new world (as you were) have preserved their inheritance.”

Dr. Kiss assumed her position as president of the college on Aug. 1, 2006. Before coming to Agnes Scott, she spent 10 years at Duke University, where she was Nannerl O. Keohane director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and an associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy.

The college’s international students greeted Dr. Kiss at the event in their ceremonial dress.

For more information, call Lee Dancy, director of news services, at (404) 471-5451 or send an email to Ldanncy@agnesscott.edu

 

Web-Conferencing Company Growing Int’l Business with Denmark-born Rep.

Atlanta resident Charlotte Nytoft is representing Birmingham, Ala., based Moreson Conferencing Inc. as an international business specialist.

A native of Denmark, Ms. Nytoft will be responsible for developing the web-and tele-conferencing company’s accounts in Asia and Europe.

Ms. Nytoft holds a bachelor’s degree in international business and international logistics and has worked in the field since 1985.  She also has business experience in Berlin, Germany, providing products for the country’s emerging construction industry after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Ms. Nytoft moved to Atlanta in January and is an active member of the British American Business Group, the Danish American Chamber of Commerce, the German American Chamber of Commerce and Atlanta JayCee.

Moreson currently sets up virtual conferences in 50 countries around the world.

Contact Ms. Nytoft at  charlotte@moreson.com or (404) 626-9859 or 1-800-368-1977.

 

Atlanta-based IT Outsourcing Company Hires Representation in Washington

William Beckner has been hired by Atlanta-based offshore information technology company Vision TRE Inc. to represent the company in Washington.

Mr. Beckner is a retired colonel with the U.S. Air Force who has more than 40 years of domestic and international business marketing, management and logistics experience in the public and private sectors.

Mr. Beckner has also served as adjunct professor for international marketing at George Mason University and as a lecturer at military logistics schools in the United States as well as senior logistics officers schools in Great Britain.

Founded in 1998, Vision TRE supplies strategic consulting and near shore IT services in Brazil. The company offers offshore IT software development, remote system management, legacy system support, web development, system analysis, and IT staff augmentation. The company also provides onshore IT strategic consulting.

Mr. Beckner can be reached at (770) 621-7709 or beckner@visiontre.net.

For more information visit www.visiontre.com.

 

Georgia Appoints Liaison Officer for Digital Entertainment

The Georgia Department of Economic Development has hired Asante Bradford, founder of the Independent Black Film Festival in Atlanta, to fill the position of digital entertainment liaison with responsibilities for the continued growth of the video game industry in Georgia.

Mr. Bradford is to increase the state’s level of industry promotion and support, create business-to-business and educational institution relationships, oversee industry specific advertising and marketing initiatives and attract video game development companies to Georgia.

According to a press release from the Georgia Film, Video and Music Office of the economic development department, Mr. Bradford will encourage the industry to utilize the Georgia Entertainment Industry Investment Act, which grants a base tax credit to qualified productions.

Georgia is home to more than 50 video game developers and development companies including Turner GameTap, Kaneva Inc., Hi-Rez Studios, Blue Heat Games and StudioCom.

The Film, Video and Music Office is responsible for promoting Georgia as an entertainment industry destination by increasing the awareness of Georgia’s multimedia business opportunities, resources and infrastructure through the building of relationships with prospective global clients.

For more information, go to www.georgia.org or call (404) 962-4075.