SBA Honors 2015 Atlanta Emerging Leaders Graduates
Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
The U.S. Small Business Administration recognized 19 small businesses in the SBA Emerging Leaders graduation ceremony today at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. The SBA Emerging Leaders initiative is a federal training initiative that specifically focuses on executives of businesses poised for growth in historically challenged communities. The initiative provides these executives with the organizational framework, resource network, and motivation required to build sustainable businesses and promote the economic development within urban communities.
Through the Emerging Leaders initiative, the SBA has identified urban-based business owners across the country with high growth potential and immersed them in a condensed, MBA-like curriculum designed to enhance their business savvy and experience. The six-month training program provides those business owners with the network, resources and motivation required to build a sustainable business - both in size and scale.
“We are proud to graduate the eighth Emerging Leaders class in Atlanta,” said David Perry, Georgia Deputy District Director. This program is geared to assisting existing small businesses in developing their three year strategic growth plans. During the course of the program, their plans were vetted by peers and business experts. The plan is also based on their individual business’ situation and goals. This is the first year that the SBA Georgia District Office has received a Proclamation from the Atlanta City Council declaring October 27, 2015, as SBA Emerging Leaders Day in the city of Atlanta.
Graduating businesses recognized for completing the program include:
All That Maintenance, LLC - Michelle Bernard
Ankobia Group, LLC - Nzingha Asantewa
August Networks - Ravi Mudigonda
CFO Leasing, Inc. - Kevin Grimes
GMI Group, Inc. - Kayla Dang
Gowdy Vision Associates - Sheila Gowdy
Hummingbird Risk Advisors, LLC - Kymberlee Doughtery Tysk
International Trade Imports, LLC - Julio Bayona
Ketch Partners - Russell Day
Milton Brown & Associates - Milton Brown
MMHB & Associates - Moses Brown
Mooring Tech, Inc. - Michael Cayes
PCPlus Networks, Inc. - Shan Dholaria
Platinum Print Group, LLC - Lawrence Stewart
POSolutions, Inc. - Shandron Pemberton
Raine & Company, LLC - Machelle Redmond
Synergy Tech Consulting - Fred Merritt
Twin City Realty, LLC - Stacy Hall
WellMed/Atlanta - Roger Carter, II