MANAGEMENT & STAFF

The Flagship Enterprise Center is an innovative center for education, business incubation, technology transfer, and training which supports the economic development vision for the City of Anderson, Indiana.

Created through a partnership between Anderson University and the City of Anderson, the Flagship Enterprise Center (FEC) serves as a small business incubator and growth stage business accelerator. Through its client-specific Client Support Program, the FEC helps emerging companies to become independently viable. Located at I-69 and Martin Luther King Blvd. (exit 22) in Anderson, the FEC provides ongoing contact with management consultants, university researchers, student mentoring opportunities and access to capital. The FEC and its partners seek to encourage and nurture the entrepreneurial spirit within the community. The Flagship Enterprise Center is both an educational and technological incubator helping businesses develop and transition their technologies into real world applications and products in global markets. The FEC is one of the largest such Centers in Indiana.

“When we started this project many years ago, we had high hopes for success,” said Charles Staley, president and chief executive officer of the Flagship Enterprise Center. “The partnerships with government agencies, the City of Anderson, Corporation for Economic Development, Anderson University, Purdue University, and the many dedicated business and academic professionals have expanded our horizons and future opportunities far beyond our original vision. What has been achieved to date is truly remarkable, and we are certain that this investment will yield continued job growth and economic expansion for generations.”

“A key objective is to assist Flagship clients in their quest to become independently viable,” said Art Patterson, executive director of the FEC. “The Flagship is like intensive care for startup companies. We bring them in, assess their strengths and weaknesses; look for ways to leverage the strengths, and address the weaknesses, and when they become independently viable, we graduate them. The range of products and services offered spans multiple fields of expertise, including alternative energy, distributed power and advanced battery systems, medical, information technology and computers, manufacturing, military defense equipment and numerous business support products and services.”

On behalf of the City of Anderson and the Redevelopment Commission, FEC also manages the Anderson Business Incubator. The Flagship Education Center is currently being built and classes are projected to begin in fall of 2007. The Flagship Enterprise Center in partnership with the City of Anderson has announced that it will construct a new Flagship Accelerator on 8 acres of land directly adjacent to I-69 and southwest of Remy, Inc. within the Flagship Business Park. The new facility will support the needs of incubator graduates and qualified “early stage companies” that are transitioning to a permanent location within Anderson and Madison County. 

DeWayne Landwehr
Director
765-622-0800
dewayne@flagshipenterprise.org

Erika DeLaRosa
Client Support Specialist
765-622-1628
erika@flagshipenterprise.org

Pat McCune
Administrative Support
765-622-0100
pat@flagshipenterprise.org

Flagship Energy Systems Center
2701 Enterprise Drive
Anderson, Indiana 46013

Contact:
1-765-622-7960
Erika@flagshipenterprise.org