Linda Stahl Named Connecticut Woman of Innovation
Wins Small Business Innovation & Leadership Award

AVON, CT, January 22, 2010 — Nearly 600 attendees packed the Aqua Turf’s ‘Glass Room’ on January 20 to meet Connecticut’s most innovative women and discover who among the 59 finalists would win the 9 top prizes. The finalists hailed from the state’s most prestigious workplaces – General Electric, Pitney Bowes, United Technologies, and Yale. From this crowded field, COCC’s Linda Stahl, Vice President – Strategic Products, won the Small Business Innovation & Leadership Award. Ms. Stahl’s award recognizes her involvement in the development, promotion and support of innovative technologies that have reduced paper and power consumption at community banks and credit unions throughout the Northeastern U.S. The awards program, sponsored by the Connecticut Technology Council, recognizes women in the workforce who are innovators, role models and leaders in the technology, science and engineering fields. “Many of Connecticut’s most extraordinary and talented women working in technology participated in this program,” said Matthew Nemerson, president and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council. “This awards gala allows us to spotlight these exceptional innovators and leaders, while also introducing them to a professional network of equally accomplished peers.”
		Linda Stahl accepts her Small Business Innovation & Leadership award at the 2010 Women of Innovation Dinner.

Ms. Stahl helped originate COCC’s ‘software as a service’ model which the company now uses to deliver business intelligence, check processing, risk management and document management solutions. Ms. Stahl’s promotion and support of these strategic products helped COCC’s clients improve their productivity by as much as 75% and dramatically reduced their use of paper, office equipment and physical space. Strategic product sales also helped COCC double its sales revenue since 2002.

“I am deeply honored to be recognized by this spectacular group of talented women,” said Ms. Stahl. “My accomplishments reflect the quality of COCC as a service organization. Our teamwork enabled me to bring a vision of greater productivity and sustainability to reality at banking institutions throughout our region. My colleagues deserve this award as much, if not more, than I do.”

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ABOUT COCC

COCC is one of the fastest-growing data processing companies in the nation, a five year FinTech 100 award winner, and a 2009 CIO 100 honoree. This client-owned company provides complete enterprise processing solutions to financial institutions using the latest open systems. COCC continues to innovate by migrating its entire client base to an open, .Net processing platform built on an Oracle database. Next generation systems and client-driven support make COCC the better data processor. For more information, please visit www.cocc.com or contact Robert Bessel at 860.674.7214.