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Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York is holding their first Camp CEO this year. The camp brings together a select group of teenaged girls and executive women to build the next generation of women leaders. Annmarie’s “camp buddy” is a rising high school junior, characterized by her teachers as “completely single-minded in her pursuit of excellence, …courageous enough to take risks…, yet humble enough not to showcase her accomplishments.” She is interested in pursuing a career as a graphic designer, mathematician, entrepreneur, or computer programmer.
Authored by on Saturday, Jul 18, 2015
The Capital District Women’s Employment & Resource Center (WERC) has named Annmarie Lanesey, President of Greane Tree Technology, the winner of the 2015 Harriet Rifkin Leadership Award. Annmarie was chosen for “her leadership, volunteerism, professionalism, and her work in creating opportunities for women to achieve personal and financial independence.” The award is named in honor of Harriet Rifkin, a key volunteer with WERC since 1989, and its inaugural Board Chair.
Authored by on Sunday, Jun 7, 2015
Greane Tree Technology needs your vote to qualify for a $100,000 grant from JPMorgan Chase. Greane Tree would use the grant to build a software development apprenticeship program for low-income people. The program would put folks living in poverty on a potentially lucrative career path by training them to code. It would also build a pool of local talent to meet the constant demand for skilled software engineers. JPMorgan Chase offers $100,000 Mission Main Street Grants® to small for-profit businesses to honor the role they play in local communities.
Authored by on Wednesday, Apr 29, 2015
Discover “what living in ‘Tech Valley’ really means and what you must know to make the most of it!” At the “What the TECH” forum, Annmarie Lanesey, President of Greane Tree Technology, Clarke Foley, Director of Operations at MadGlory Interactive, and Rick D’Errico, Managing Director at NYBizLab and Public Relations Director at Transfinder, will discuss the technological innovation and business opportunity going on in our own backyard. Presented by the Tech Valley Young Professionals Network of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber and the Chamber of Schenectady County, the forum will be held on May 14, at 5:30 pm, at Transfinder Corporation, 440 State Street, Schenectady.
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On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, from 5:30-7:30 pm, Albany Law School will present a panel discussion entitled “Leading a New Era: Women Entrepreneurs.” The panel features Annmarie Lanesey, President and co-founder of Greane Tree Technology; Beth Coco, UAlbany’s first Entrepreneur in Residence and founder of Microknowledge; and Colleen Costello, CEO and co-founder of Vital Vio, recently featured in Inc.com’s 50 Emerging Global Entrepreneurs to Watch. These three leading lights of the growing upstate economy will address the challenges and opportunities facing female entrepreneurs.
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Greane Tree Technology President Annmarie Lanesey will be one of more than 50 chief executive officers at the Business Opportunities to Success Summit (BOSS) on Nov. 12, 2014, sharing the hard lessons they learned growing their companies. The second annual BOSS event will once again spotlight a variety of leaders from several industries throughout the region who will each deliver 5-minute, concise, candid insights on what experience has taught them. The goal of the day is to provide numerous “aha” moments for the more than 400 businesspeople in attendance.
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Greane Tree Technology welcomes Matthew Marchesni, a senior at Union College, for a week-long internship/apprenticeship learning Node.js, a server-side Javascript platform known for its speed. We met Matt last December at NY Innovates 2013, when he was eagerly learning Ruby on Rails. As a Ruby on Rails shop, we were very impressed with Matt's go get ‘em attitude. We ran into Matt again at the Tech Valley Holiday Developers Bash, where we chatted about the possibility of a Spring Break internship at Greane Tree Technology.
Authored by on Friday, Oct 11, 2013
Matthew Gerrior, Greane Tree’s Lead Software Engineer, will be one of the experts speaking at the Vermont Web Marketing Summit on November 14 in Burlington, VT. This is the fourth year for the summit, which last year attracted over 250 attendees from New England and beyond. Matthew will join speakers from Google, Outspoken Media, DragonSearch, and other leading digital marketing firms. Matthew’s talk, “The Mechanics of Social Media,” will explain the major social media APIs and how to use them to integrate social media with web applications.
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Greane Tree Technology appreciates being part of a network of small businesses in Tech Valley that offer excellent service to customers locally and nationwide. Every so often, we like to profile fellow entrepreneurs with whom we have especially enjoyed working. A few months ago, we described working together with Russo Project Management. Today, we want to focus on GreyCastle Security, an information security consulting firm headquartered in Troy. As GreyCastle says on its website, “Our company was established because a need existed for an information security consulting firm truly focused on managing risks in people, process and technology, not pushing the latest hardware and software.
Authored by on Friday, Aug 16, 2013
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Greane Tree Technology Software Engineers Matthew Gerrior and Chad Calhoun attended the Burlington Ruby Conference, “a boutique conference for extraordinary Rubyists,” on August 3rd and 4th. The conference was held in beautiful Burlington, Vermont, within view of Lake Champlain. The conference featured talks by respected Rubyists from across the United States. One of these speakers was our neighbor David Czarnecki from Agora Games right here in Troy. The conference was a single track event, meaning that everyone was able to attend all of the talks.