For the new generation of entrepreneurs, wary of risk and in need of guidance, structure, and a little hand-holding, the economic development organization AdvantageWest has named a new entrepreneurship program manager. She will:

provide direction and management for the Certified Entrepreneurial Community® Program, an intensive five-step process developed by AdvantageWest as the first initiative of its type in the U.S. to certify communities as entrepreneur-ready.