Scott Byers soaked in the positive energy inside the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University on Tuesday.
In a roomful of more than 500 innovators and entrepreneurs, Byers, the President and CEO of Diversified Information Technologies in Scranton, was impressed with the success and ambition at the Northeastern Pennsylvania Innovation Awards at the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania i xchange event. Jeff DeGraff (pictured) was the event’s keynote speaker.
“I don’t know that there’s ever a bad time to be an entrepreneur,” says Byers. “There’s always a way to build a better mousetrap.”
Byers represented Diversified, one of eight award recipients, which was honored for Innovative Use of Adaptive Technology. Diversified provides automated information management solutions to clients in insurance, financial services, healthcare and government sectors. The company’s NetView online document-access portal, a cloud computing solution that helps companies perfect their workflow processes to manage cost and compliance, was a big reason Diversified earned an award on Tuesday.
Diversified and Ben Franklin go back nearly 20 years. In 1987 along with Wilkes University, the three institutions re-engineered the company’s service offerings to meet changing market needs. Diversified employs 375, two-thirds of which are credited to the partnership with Ben Franklin.
“Our slogan is ‘We make information happen,'” says Byers. “Our philosophy is client first, and with that automating processes and managing costs–that’s getting significant attention these days.”
Other award winners Tuesday included United Corrstack LLC in Reading (for Manufacturing Achievement), Saladax Biomedical in Bethlehem (for Product Innovation), Right Reason Technologies in East Stroudsburg (for Incubator Graduate), Dale F. Falcinelli of Lehigh University (for Academic Partner), Solid Cactus Inc. of Shavertown (for Entrepreneurial Achievement), Ellen T. Horan of the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce and Industry (for Special Achievement) and CFO & Stuff LLC of Emmaus (for Entrepreneurial Advocate).
Source: Scott Byers, Diversified Information Technologies
Writer: Joe Petrucci
Photographs of Jeff DeGraff by Jason Farmer