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2010 Annual Meeting of the AERN
Photos by Andrea Mabry
On June 24, 2010, the partners of the Alabama Entrepreneurial Research Network came together on the University of Alabama campus for the 2010 Annual Meeting. Partners received updated materials, heard presentations and shared their experiences.
AERN Partners gather to discuss the state of small businesses in their counties on June 23 in the AIME building on the University of Alabama campus.
Meeting attendees peruse a handout.
Adelaide Wood (AERN outreach coordinator), Kevin McMahon (guest speaker), Paavo Hanninen (AERN co-director) at the 2010 AERN annual partners meeting.
Dr. Art Dunning (UA vice chancellor for outreach), Sheryl Smedley (Selma Chamber of Commerce) and Tamara Thomas (Greene County Industrial Development Authority) participate in discussion.
Ahmaad Galloway and Anthony Hood, both UA graduate students with academic interest in rural issues, were guests at the meeting.
Kevin McMahon, Bryant Bank senior VP and director of commercial lending, was the special guest speaker.
Meeting attendees, displaying AERN 10th Anniversary tiles. Standing, from left to right: Paul Brothers, John Martin, Lee Pike, Mark Siciliano, Laura Sadowski, Sheryl Smedley, Paavo Hanninen, Annette Watters, Adelaide Wood. Seated, from left to right: Tamara Thomas, Francine Wasden, Anne Hamner, Virginia Loftis.