Corridor Companies Win Top Tech Business Awards

ICAD Clients Rockwell and IPL Among Winners

The Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) presented its prestigious Prometheus Awards to top high-tech businesses and individuals.                               
“These are our industry’s academy awards,” said TAI president Leann Jacobson. “They were created to help promote excellence in a business sector that is critical to our state’s economy, particularly in these challenging economic times. The transformative work we honored last night is helping to build and sustain vibrant communities throughout Iowa.”                          
Mark Kittrell, 2008 chairman of the TAI board of directors and CEO of Team Technologies in Cedar Falls, said, “The awards allow us to showcase the innovations and advancements made by Iowans. The work of the winners is on a world-class scale: We have some of the best high-tech professionals right here in our state, and they are helping solve global challenges in industry, education, medicine, and the environment.”
Among the 2009 Prometheus Award Winners:

• Student Start up of the Year: J&J Solutions, Iowa City, Jared Garfield and John Slump, founders. Garfield and Slump have created a patent-pending drug transfer device that eliminates the risk of exposure to the hazardous pharmaceuticals used in cancer care.
• Environmental Excellence, Company Application: Rockwell Collins (Clayton Jones, CEO) and the Interstate Power and Light Company, Cedar Rapids. Rockwell Collins and Interstate Power and Light partnered to create a green office building at Rockwell Collins headquarters. The 150,000-square-foot building was built following LEED criteria, a set of standards for environmentally sustainable construction developed by the US Green Building Council.