The Rollins College Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship and CEO Nexus, in collaboration with Insperity, GrowFL and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council, cordially invite you to the CEO Forum, a program series that brings together leaders of established growth-stage businesses in a confidential setting to meet and learn from CEO peers who have grown their companies into more advanced stages of business development.
This event is by invitation only.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Rollins College
Registration and networking from 6:00 to 6:45 pm
Program and Q&A from 6:45 to 8:00 pm
To register for event, please click here: http://ceoforumorlando.eventbrite.com
Speaker: Carol Craig
Founder & CEO, Craig Technologies
A self-described accidental entrepreneur and Unconventional CEOTM, Carol Craig is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Craig Technologies, headquartered in Cape Canaveral, FL. Growing Craig Technologies from one person in 1999 to nearly 400 associates and $42M in revenues today, Craig leads nationwide operations with employees in over 20 different states with offices in Huntsville, AL and Orlando, FL.
Craig Technologies was listed as one of Florida’s Best Companies to Work For in 2011 and 2013 by Florida Trend magazine. As CEO, Carol oversees corporate operations to ensure quality service-delivery for her commercial and government customers, offering high-end custom engineering and technical support services.
In January of 2013, she opened the 161,000 sq ft Craig Technologies Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Center and currently provides end-to-end solutions for prototype development and production of precision manufacturing orders with precision machining and fabrication, avionics laboratory services, specialty manufacturing, and test and evaluation capabilities.
Craig’s military experience includes active duty as a P-3C Orion Naval Flight Officer, specializing in Anti-Surface and Sub-Surface Warfare. She holds a BA in Computer Science from Knox College, a BS in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Ms. Craig is pursuing a PhD in Systems Engineering at Florida Tech in Melbourne, FL.
In 2010 and 2012, Craig was recognized as a Finalist in the Technology category for the Florida region for the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year Award,” the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs.
Carol serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for University of Central Florida’s College of Engineering, and serves on the University of Central Florida Foundation Board of Directors and Development Committee. Ms. Craig also serves on numerous community boards and was recently appointed to the Boards of Directors of Orlando, Inc., the Florida HighTech Corridor Council and Enterprise Florida.
Carol and her husband, CAPT John W. Craig, USN, a former F/A-18 pilot who now flies for JetBlue Airways and is a Navy Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (NEPLO), have two children. In response to her son’s diagnosis with Prader-Willi Syndrome in 2001, Carol is Founder of the Danny Craig Foundation, aiming to raise and administer funds for multiple organizations that focus on researching children’s medical disorders.
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