UCF Business Incubation Program appoints Rick Parks site manager at Apopka Branch

ORLANDO, Fla. --- The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program has appointed Rick Parks site manager of the new UCF Business Incubation facility in Apopka.

Gordon Hogan, director of the UCF Business Incubation Program said Parks attended Southern Illinois University, Chrysler Institute in Detroit and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Parks has more than 40 years of experience, including 17 years with Abbott Laboratories, 25 years as a serial entrepreneur and three years as a coach at the University of Central Florida Venture Lab.

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.