Biz Talk With Josh Smith
Thursday, May 17, 2012 Global Opportunities for Small and Minority Businesses This Thursday's guests on Biz Talk With Josh are no strangers to global business development efforts. Mr. David Hinson is the National Director, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) - a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Hinson oversees a national operation of five regional offices and 48 minority business centers. Since 2004, MBDA has assisted minority-owned firms in obtaining nearly $7 billion in contracts and capital, creating nearly 11,000 new jobs. Joining Josh and David will be Mr. Robert Agbede Chairman, CEO & President of Chester Engineers, a leading water/waste water, facility design build, scientific research and management company, currently operating in the USA, Africa and the Caribbean. Please listen in as Josh and David discuss the role played by MBDA to expand the U.S. economy and create new jobs by providing services to promote the growth and global competitiveness of minority businesses; and as Josh, Robert, and Candis Stretcher (VP of Regional Business Development at Chester Engineers), discuss how Chester Engineers' has grown its business domestically and globally. |
Host Bio Joshua I. Smith, Chairman and Managing Partner of The Coaching Group, LLC, is Host of Biz Talk With Josh. He is a nationally renowned entrepreneur and lecturer; member of the board of directors of Allstate Corporation, FedEx Corporation and Caterpillar, Inc., as well as the SCORE board of directors, and previously served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board. Josh is Vice Chairman of CompCare Corporation, and a presidential appointee under former President George H.W. Bush. He has also served as the only Chairman of the only U.S. Commission on Minority Business Development ever established in the Nation.
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Biz Talk With Josh Smith 8401 Colesville Road, Suite 620 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 |
