Chamber Luncheon 20080305 - Jerry Ross - Disney Entrepreneur Center

• Jerry Ross is an experienced entrepreneur and businessman whose two decades of experience include leadership positions with AT&T, Ohio Bell, and Goal Systems Software. His entrepreneurial ventures include Sky-Tracker of Florida, Semco Properties and Maverick Business Magazine
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• Jerry was recently selected in a nationwide search to become the Executive Director of the Disney Entrepreneur Center located in Orlando, Florida. The Entrepreneur Center is a unique public/private partnership, and is home to 11 business support organizations that are dedicated to the development and growth of businesses throughout Florida
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• Jerry has been called a “virtual business incubator” and “a small business grower” by the Orlando Business Journal for his entrepreneurial success and his on-going support of the small business community
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• He has been nominated for small businessman of the year by the Seminole County Chamber of Commerce; has published numerous articles on small business, and is a frequent guest on business radio
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• Jerry speaks for business conventions throughout the U.S. and has participated in business conferences as far away as Merida, Mexico and Cairo, Egypt. He has an MBA from Dayton University and is a Certified Business Consultant from the University of Central Florida and he calls Orlando home.

About the Disney Entrepreneur Center: http://www.disneyec.com

• In its fourth year, the downtown Orlando-based center is dedicated to the growth of small businesses
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• It provides emerging entrepreneurs and existing small business owners with counseling, training, financial assistance and a software laboratory with the research tools needed to become successful.