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Article: New Director Takes Over Rhode Island Technology Fund.
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- Providence Journal (Providence, RI)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Byline: Andrea Stape
Sep. 4--The Rhode Island Economic Policy Council yesterday appointed Jerry Schaufeld as director of the state's $2.5-million Samuel Slater Technology Fund.
He takes over a position vacated by Joseph Hammang in April.
Hammang, who was with the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation before joining the EPC to oversee the Slater program, left the approximately $75,000-a-year job to join Pfizer Inc. in Connecticut.
Schaufeld will be responsible for running the five-year-old Slater program, which loans state money to small businesses and entrepreneurs. The four administrative units -- Slater Centers -- that dole ...