Ventana Systems' President Honored as Champion of Innovation by Boston History and Innovation Collaborative
Laura Peterson Is Honored for Work With Ventana Systems in Decision Support for Complex Systems
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - June 11, 2007) - Laura Peterson, President and CEO of Ventana
Systems, Inc., www.ventanasystems.com was honored for her work in decision
support for complex systems at the Boston History and Innovation
Collaborative www.bostoninnovation.org and the Boston Fifth Century
Trustees' first "Champions of Innovation" ceremony held at the Genzyme
Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week.
Ventana Systems, Inc., is a mathematics consulting and software firm based
in Harvard, Massachusetts that helps organizations in complex situations
make better decisions through advanced technology. "It is an honor to
receive this recognition and to celebrate the achievements of such an
acclaimed group of innovators," said Ms. Peterson.
Other recognized visionary champions celebrated last week include Leo
Beranek and the Arpanet/BBN team who invented the packet system which
resulted in the birth of the Internet by allowing remote computers to
communicate; Jay Forrester, head of MIT's Computer Lab who developed the
first computer to use magnetic core memory pointing industry to high speed
computing; Eric Lander, the founder of the Whitehead Institute who led the
international Human Genome Project; Clara Wainwright, the inventor of First
Night Boston, a social innovation now widely emulated; Peter Brooke,
founder of VC TA Associates and Advent International; and Joseph Murray who
completed the world's first successful human kidney transplant.
"We are proud that Ventana Systems is our partner and of Laura Peterson's
recognition for her extraordinary work," said Michael Feder, President and
CEO of Radar Logic Incorporated.
About Ventana Systems, Inc. (www.ventanasystems.com)
Ventana® helps organizations in complex environments make better
decisions through a combination of high-quality models and advanced
treatment of data. Since 1985, Ventana models have informed the
highest-stakes decisions in organizations. Ventana is unique in creating
and deploying robust, comprehensive models of a complex environment for
strategic visibility and control. In 2007, Ventana formally partnered with
Radar Logic Incorporated for a dedicated channel for products for capital
markets. Ventana operates as an autonomous and wholly owned subsidiary of
Radar Logic.
About Radar Logic Incorporated (www.radarlogic.com)
Radar Logic, the home of tradable real estate, is a technology-driven
analytic and data business providing a broad range of daily indices and
analytic tools to serve as the basis for true derivatives markets in
non-commodity assets. More information about the company and its management
team can be found at www.radarlogic.com.
About the Boston History and Innovation Collaborative
(www.bostoninnovation.org)
The Boston History and Innovation Collaborative is dedicated to promoting
Greater Boston's centuries-long tradition of innovation, embedding this
unique history in Boston's current culture, and employing lessons from this
innovation history that can be used to drive the region's economic
development.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Radar Logic Incorporated
Nancy Tamosaitis
Vorticom Inc.
212.532.2208