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bbas Yazdani, chief executive officer of Artel Inc., (left) was named the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Greater Washington in the government IT category.
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 | Abbas Yazdani, chief executive officer of Artel Inc., (left) was named the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Greater Washington in the government IT category. Yazdani was presented the award June 23 at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner hotel in McLean. Va. | |
 | Local business leaders recognized at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Awards were from left: William Angrick III, Liquidity Services Inc.; Abbas Yazdani, Artel Inc.; Donald Wood, Federal Realty Investment Trust; Evan Jones, Digene Corp.; Timothy Kennan, High Performance Technologies Inc.; Marla Malcolm Beck, Bluemercury Inc.; Brian Hendricks, StartUpPC; Sid Banerjee, Claraview Inc.; Steven Shindler, NII Holdings Inc.; John Kealey, iDirect Technologies; and David Eisner, Dataprise Inc. | |
 | Abbas Yazdani of Artel (center) with Fred Grandy of News Talk 630 WMAL (left) and Craig Chason of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. |
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