Biz Talk With Josh Smith
Thursday, September 27, 2012 Minority Businesses as Suppliers to Government and Corporations
Listen in this Thursday when Biz Talk With Josh host, Josh Smith will be joined by Mr. Kenneth Clark, President and CEO, MD DC Minority Supplier Development Council, Mr. Ben C. Gaither III, Program Director, Small Business Program Office, IBM Global Business Services, Public Sector, and Mr. Roland Jones, Executive Director, Prince George's County (MD) Minority Business Development Division. Josh and his guests will discuss small and minority-owned businesses and the impact they have on government and corporate procurement programs.
Mr. Kenneth Clark, a frequent guest on Biz Talk, possesses a 35 year career in engineering, operations, international project management and public affairs with companies such as Verizon. Ben Gaither has over thirty years of comprehensive sales and marketing program development, management and project implementation experience within IBM. His IBM experiences have ranged from direct one-on-one sales, marketing, technical support and consulting to the development of regional, industry and national marketing /sales and program support. Mr. Roland Jones, a previous board chair at the MD DC MSDC, is the former director of procurement and contract management at the Maryland Department of Environment, and former director of supplier diversity at Sprint Nextel and Fannie Mae.
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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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