To the CEC Board and Team…
I just want to briefly join in Jim and Bryant’s comments (now that my phone has
slowed down a bit and the 300 emails have been dealt with) to say how grateful
I am for this opportunity and how excited I am about the prospects of working
successfully with all of you and the terrific staff and all of the
sponsors/supporters (and the City and State as well) whom have come together to
accomplish so much and to take 1871 so far already. I hope that we can keep
building aggressively on the great progress that has been made to date.
I also
want to thank many of you for your personal notes and kind words of
congratulations and good wishes. Jim and Bryant have been amazing leaders for
this entire effort and they have been great to me already in guiding me through
the interview and evaluation process. I think we have a very clear and shared
view of how CEC and 1871 can both continue to move forward in these electric
times to further the cause of entrepreneurship throughout our great city and state.
The entire search committee (as luck would have it) were both friends and
business acquaintances and that made the process feel so much more like a
family affair than an inquisition and it set things off in a very supportive
and positive direction.
I too
want to commend Kevin on his very hard work and impressive results in bringing
1871 to this point – I can honestly say that we’ve been regularly connected and
speaking about this adventure since before it even began. He’s been a great
friend and supporter of our efforts over these last several years as well and
the entire City and all the members and beneficiaries of 1871 owe him our
thanks.
