ANN ARBOR — Pharma startup Esperion Therapeutics announced this week the appointment of Jay P. Shepard as a Class III Director, with a term expiring at the 2019 annual meeting of stockholders. “Jay’s experience supporting the launch and commercialization of biopharmaceutical products will be invaluable as we advance the bempedoic acid product franchise through the
TROY - In-Wheel Electric Motor company Protean Electric announced this week that it has completed a $40 million equity investment as the initial closing of its Series E funding round. Protean, founded in 2009 as a spinout of a bankrupt English electric motor manufacturer, has approximately 110 employees. The company has research and engineering offices in
LANSING — The American Council of Engineering Companies of Michigan (ACEC/M) has announced Sean J. Kelley, PE, of The Mannik & Smith Group Inc. as its 2018-19 president. Kelley has been employed in the Michigan engineering consulting industry his entire 32-year career. He is a senior vice president and principal with the 300-plus-employee firm Mannik
ANN ARBOR — The Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan announced H. Asli Aka as its new associate director. “As a U-M and Tauber alum, the possibility of coming back to Ann Arbor excites me tremendously,” Aka said, “Working with an organization that helps shape the future leaders is an exciting
TROY — The Troy-based engineering technology developer Altair Engineering Inc. announced the acquistiion of the intellectual property of Oakland, Calif.-based Candi Controls Inc., a developer of technologies that connect Internet of Things devices and data to the services that create smart buildings. Altair also said it had hired Candi’s experienced software and technology team. Other
DETROIT — More than 15,000 students and 40,000 family members, friends and fans gathered last week for the FIRST Robotics world championships. The four-day event came down to a conclusion Saturday night in front of thousands of cheering fans at Ford Field when teams competed in match finals for the FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST
DEARBORN — The SME Education Foundation and the Michigan Manufacturers Association will make manufacturing education available to students at Fraser High School in cooperation with Macomb County businesses, SME officials announced. Dominion Technologies Group, I.F. Metalworks, Fori Automation, General Motors, Oakley Industries and Superior Heat Treat LLC will collaborate through SME’s Partnership Response In Manufacturing
LANSING — Connect Michigan, the nonprofit dedicated to bringing high-speed internet and related technologies to all people in Michigan, has launched a new website. Erick Frederick The organization, a subsidiary of Bowling Green, Ky.-based Connected Nation, says the new site features community resources, broadband data and solutions, and a look at the action plans so
PLYMOUTH — In an effort to support the ongoing development of business skills among manufacturers, the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center will offer a series of four free workshops geared towards improving strategic planning. “Poor strategic planning can be detrimental to an organization,” said George Singos, Business Leader Advisor at the center and lead instructor of
ANN ARBOR — The Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity firm Duo Security announced a new partnership with the cloud delivery provider Akamai to integrate their technologies for remote workers. Through this partnership, every time a user tries to access an application delivered by Akamai’s Enterprise Application Access, Duo verifies the trust of the user and the device
