TEDxPittsburgh - Dennis Yablonsky - Four Ps
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 30/12/2011

Power of quiet determination
Dennis is Chief Executive Officer of the Allegheny Conference on Community and Economic Development. He spent the first 24 years of his career developing and leading two successful software companies, Cincom, where he served as chief operating officer, and the Carnegie Group, where he was chief executive officer. He is also the founding CEO of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, both of which are innovative models for achieving technology-based economic development. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development. In that role, he brought together an economic stimulus package and the policies necessary to support business growth and economic vitality through- out Pennsylvania. Dennis serves on the boards of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation, the Strategic Investment Fund, the Regional Opportunity Center, and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre and is a member of the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Board of Fellows.