[March 13, 2006]

Executive of geospatial technology firm awarded small business honors

(Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (Tupelo, MS) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Mar. 11--Craig Harvey, CIO and executive vice president of NVision Solutions Inc., has been named the 2006 Mississippi Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

NVision is a member of Mississippi's Geospatial Technology Industry cluster,

"Craig is truly an innovator, a leader in his field, and an outstanding representative of the small business community," said Lisa Stone, acting director of the Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions, who nominated Craig for the award. "And to have the Small Business Person of the Year come from the geospatial industry speaks volumes about the economic impact of this industry sector in Mississippi."

NVision Solutions Inc. is a small, woman- and minority-owned firm specializing in advanced geospatial solutions.

NVision facilitates remote sensing services and application development, GIS services, and database development and integration of these technologies through the use of Web-enabled interfaces.

Headquartered at the NASA Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi, NVision was a start-up company just four years ago. Today the company is an established leader in geospatial solutions.

"I am honored by this award, but when it comes down to it this is really an award for the entire NVision team as well as all of those who have supported and believed in us since day one," Harvey said. "This award also represents a culmination of all the efforts by Mississippi's leadership to bring high tech to the state of Mississippi through the active fostering and support of the geospatial industry cluster."

Since he helped found NVision Solutions nearly four years ago, Craig has built a thriving technology company without any venture capital and has grown the business from a two-person, 100-square-foot office to three regional offices and more than10 employees.

In its short history, NVision has received a number of accolades, including the 2005 Mississippi Small Business Innovator of the Year award, ESRI's New Business Partner of the Year, and ESRI's Special Achievement GIS Award.

NVision also received the Louisiana Governor's Technology Innovator of the Year Award in 2004 for a product successfully launched in Louisiana.

Representing Mississippi and NVision Solutions, Craig will be honored in Washington, D.C., in April during National Small Business Week.

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