Joan Siefert Rose, general manager of the University of North Carolina public radio station WUNC-FM, will succeed Monica Doss as president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), effective August 11.
The board of the Research Triangle Park-based CED chose Rose, herself a member of the board for the past four years, after candidates were weighed by its search committee because of Doss' decision to retire.
Since Rose became general manager of North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC in 2001, she oversaw a strategic planning process that led the station to change its format to news and information. During that time the station's audience has grown and the staff and annual budget have doubled in size. A successful capital campaign completed in 2007 provided new broadcast studios at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham and added significant programming upgrades.