Media Advisory

Red Hat Co-Founder Bob Young to Speak at NC State’s Entrepreneurs’ Lecture Series

Media Contact:
Lauren Gregg, News Services, 919/515-3470

April 13, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Robert “Bob” Young, founder and CEO of lulu.com and co-founder and former chairman of Red Hat, will deliver North Carolina State University’s Entrepreneurs’ Lecture Series presentation at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 16, at the Jane S. McKimmon Conference and Training Center on the NC State campus.

Media coverage of the lecture is invited. The lecture is free and open to the public. The McKimmon Center is located at the corner of Western Boulevard and Gorman Street; free parking will be available in the McKimmon Center lot.

Young served as co-founder and chairman of Red Hat from 1993-2000. Before founding Red Hat in 1993, he spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies. In 1999, Young founded The Center for the Public Domain, a non-profit foundation that supports the growth of a healthy public domain of knowledge and the arts. In March 2002, Young launched Lulu.com (www.Lulu.com), a Web site that allows businesses, educators, artists, musicians, and others to publish and sell their own books, images, multimedia and music. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976.

The Entrepreneurs’ Lecture Series, developed by the Office of Public Affairs, is designed to showcase outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship among NC State alumni and partners. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program (EEP), started in 1993 by Dr. Tom Miller, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to help prepare undergraduate engineering students for the world of technology entrepreneurship. EEP students work in teams organized as “virtual start-up” companies, and research, design, build, test and demonstrate to business professionals their new products and business ideas.

For more information and to RSVP for the lecture, visit www.ncsu.edu/els/.