UCF Business Incubation Program Names Peggy Allen Assistant to Director Gordon Hogan

ORLANDO, Fla. --- The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program has promoted Peggy Allen to assistant to the director of the UCF Business Incubator Program.

Allen, who joined the UCF Business Incubation Program in Sanford nearly two years ago as program assistant, has more than six years of experience in business administration and business development, Gordon Hogan, director of the UCF Business Incubation Program, said.

As assistant to Hogan, Allen will play a key role in administering activities of the UCF Business Incubation Progam’s ten sites throughout Central Florida and will be based at the UCF Business Incubation Program’s headquarters in Central Florida Research Park in east Orlando.

About the UCF Business Incubation Program
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 200 emerging companies (including more than 125 current clients) create over $200 million in annual total economic output and more than 1,600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With nine facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Business Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, Osceola County, the City of Kissimmee, City of St. Cloud, Volusia County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. The UCFBIP will open its 10th incubator in Apopka in Spring 2012. Please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu and UCFBIP on Facebook, on www.facebook.com/ucf4bip.