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" With the announcement last Monday of Ned Staebler taking over as CEO of Detroit's TechTown (http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150302/NEWS/150309987/ned-staeble...), and the nomination last Thursday of Betsy Creedon, TechTown Director of Entrepreneurial Services, to NEF's board, it's important to affirm how much our relationship with the business accelerator and incubator has solidified over the last few years. At the board's retreat in 2011, we had set an objective to start participating and supporting the fast developing entrepreneurial scene in Detroit, but it took the arrival of Charlie Moret at the head of their tech entrepreneurship program, the following nomination of Sheu-Jane Gallagher, Betsy Creedon 's predecessor, to our board, and the continued support of Paul Riser, who replaced Charlie last year to establish a working relationship that has allowed our volunteer coaches to support TechTown's boot camps, and other mentoring events and business plan competitions as well as seeing an increasing number of Detroit based companies participating in some of our pitch pit competitions or becoming showcase presenters after going through our coaching process. This has been very positive and we're excited to have Betsy on our board to build on what's been accomplished!"
