Startup Grind DC Hosts Emmitt McHenry (cofounder of Network Solutions)

FREE EVENT, FREE PARKING @ St. Elizabeths East

Event is co-produced with DigitalDC (http://digitaldc.co/), St Elizabeths East (http://www.stelizabethseast.com/), Washington DC Economic Partnership (http://www.wdcep.com/), DC Chamber of Commerce (http://www.dcchamber.org/), Great Streets (http://greatstreets.dc.gov/), NAMDE (http://www.namde.org/), DCInnovates (http://www.dcinnovates-us.org/).

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Emmitt McHenry is the cofounder of Network Solutions, which was one of the first companies to operate the domain name system (DNS) registry under a sub-contract with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) by gaving out names in .com, .org, .mil, .gov, .edu and .net, along with Internet Protocol (IP) address blocks.

2000, Network Solutions was acquired by VeriSign, Inc. for $21 billion.

He also founded NetCom Solutions International, a telecommunications, engineering, consulting, and technical services company which grew in revenues of $260 million and over 200 employees in Chantilly, Virginia and Oklahoma City.

Currently, He is the cofounder and Chairman of Archura.

He has a BA in Communications from University of Denver and MS in Communication from Northwestern University.

The interview will be conducted by Harry Wingo, President of the DC Chamber of Commerce (http://www.dcchamber.org/).