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Article: Venture Capitalist Chosen to Lure Business to Md.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 14, 2003
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Gov.-elect Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) yesterday named venture
capitalist and former Westinghouse executive Aris Melissaratos to
head his economic development team, choosing an immigrant with a
background in both the manufacturing and high-technology sectors to
help him fulfill campaign promises to make the state more business
friendly.
Melissaratos, 59, said he would use his position as secretary of
the Department of Business and Economic Development to attract more
Wall Street investment in Maryland start-up companies and streamline
the state's regulatory environment with the hope of luring new
business.
"We've got to make it easy for companies to do business in this
state, or easier than it ...