Diane Durance

Diane Durance has been Executive Director at Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest since January 2008. Ms. Durance has 22 years of entrepreneurial experience and launched and managed three companies; a telecom engineering firm, a publishing group, and a professional residential repair service organization. She is the former President of the Ann Arbor IT Zone (now Ann Arbor SPARK), a non-profit membership organization promoting Ann Arbor's technology businesses. She also serves on the boards of the New Enterprise Forum, Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association, and Athena PowerNet and is the co-chair for the Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship (ACE'08).