Afeyan Wins Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Erik Mellgren5/12/08
Xconomist Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and CEO of Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, MA, was one of those awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition (NECO) over the weekend. Afeyan received the award in recognition of “his achievements not only as a successful technologist and entrepreneur, but also as a humanitarian who has had a positive impact on his local community and in his ethnic home country of Armenia,” according to a NECO press release.
Erik Mellgren is a Swedish journalist who worked for Xconomy Boston in 2008 as part of the Stanford Innovation Journalism Fellowship program. His real job is with Ny Teknik, a leading technology and innovation magazine in Sweden, but he loved seeing the Red Sox at Fenway.
