TiE Atlanta announces its Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2011.(Awards list)

M2 PRESSWIRE-February 25, 2011-: TiE Atlanta announces its Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2011(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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Winners - John P. Imlay, Jr. and I. Sigmund Mosley, Jr.

The Dynamic duo, John P. Imlay, Jr; Chairman, Imlay Investments Inc., and I. Sigmund Mosley, Jr; President, Imlay Investments, Inc., have been chosen to receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Entrepreneurship Award by TiE Atlanta. This prestigious award is presented to those individuals who have been successful business entrepreneurs and have used their wealth to make a difference in the society in which they live. Sig Mosley, the decision executor, is known as Mr. Inside to John Imlay's Mr. Outside, the face of the company.

The award will be presented at the TiE Gala on the evening of April 13th, 2011 at the Cobb Galleria, where Imlay will be the evening's keynote speaker. For more details about the Gala and VISTA 2011, the Venture & Innovation Summit from TiE Atlanta, please visit www.tie-vista.org.

Imlay's legacy lies in building one of the most successful software companies, Management Science America Inc. (MSA), which he sold to Dun & Bradstreet in 1990. He founded Imlay Investments with a mission to give back to the community and make money at the same time. MSA has birthed more than 200 CEOs and nearly 100 companies since its glory days. John Imlay Jr. is the closest thing Atlanta's tech community has to a godfather. He is credited with helping create two of Atlanta's biggest tech industries -- software and Internet security. In 1994, he was inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame for Georgia and in 1997 received the Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.

John Imlay also founded The Imlay Foundation, which makes grants to numerous worthy causes in the metro Atlanta area. He recently made a gift of $1 million to Georgia Tech that will support various campus units in Atlanta. A member of the Campaign Georgia Tech Steering Committee, Imlay is a trustee emeritus of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees. He is an honorary member of the College of Computing Advisory Board and has served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and the Leadership Gifts Committee for Georgia Tech's Centennial Campaign. He and his wife, Mary Ellen, live in Atlanta.

Sig Mosley met John Imlay when he was a staff accountant at MSA in 1969, and they have been together ever since. Mosley has become the right hand man of Imlay and makes most of the critical investment decisions. He was an Angel investor for Internet Security Systems, Witness Systems and TRADEX among almost 130 companies that benefited from Imlay Investments.

Currently Mosley serves on the board of Contract Packaging, Inc., eQuorum Corporation; Invistics Corporation; Kelly Registration, Inc.; Photobooks, Inc.; Centrafuse; Digital Assent LLC; Qcept; eRollover; SimpleC LLC; Urjanet; Activate Systems Inc.; 2080 Media; Skyway Software Inc; and USBA Holdings, Inc. He is a well sought-after board member by companies, "with all the money I have under my control, I sit on more company boards then I can count," says Mosley. Sig Mosley is also a director of Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures; The Imlay Foundation, Inc.; Techbridge; The Technology Association of Georgia; and Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Southeast. His hobbies include golf, coin collecting, reading and a glass of fine wine from time to time. He has six children and lives in Atlanta. He was inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame in 2007 and received the John Imlay Leadership Award in 2010.

Tickets to attend the Gala awards celebration still are available. The evening also includes the presentation of the Southeast Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. For complete details and to reserve your spot now, please visit www.tie-vista.org.

About Imlay Investments:

Imlay Investments is a private investment firm that provided funding for very early stage technology companies. Imlay Investments has financially backed more than 130 technology companies since 1990, including blockbusters Internet Security Systems and Tradex Technologies Inc.

About Imlay Foundation:

The Imlay Foundation, founded in 1989, is known for its strategic philanthropy benefitting a variety of interests in the community. It has made grants to numerous worthy causes in the metro Atlanta area, including:

Atlanta Alliance of Dev. Disabilities; Atlanta Botanical Garden; Atlanta Children's Shelter; Atlanta Community Food Bank; Atlanta History Center; Atlanta Union Mission; Camp Twin Lakes; Chattahoochee Nature Center; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; Georgia Public Broadcasting; MedShare International; Samaritan House Atlanta; Teach for America; YMCA of Metro Atlanta; Tech High; Woodruff Arts Center; Canine Assistance; Eagle Ranch

About TiE:

TiE is a global, not-for-profit organization created for the advancement of entrepreneurship. TiE has grown to become the world's largest not-for-profit organization for entrepreneurs with chapters in thirteen countries and membership exceeding 13,000 members world-wide. TiE's mission is to Foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs; Provide a networking platform for its members; Help members integrate with the mainstream community. At TiE, Talent, ideas and Enterprise define the core values in building the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.

About Tie Atlanta:

TiE Atlanta chapter was established in 1999. It has consistently grown in size and in regional importance with about 500 regular members and over 70 charter members (mentors). TiE membership is open to all with the explicit goal to benefit all area entrepreneurs.

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