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Stan Sena President & CEO
Director of Operations
Breana Parker
Certification
Coordinator
InTouch:
Belinda Hooks
PromoLinks LLC
Managing Editor/Contributor
(Pictured below)
Kathryn Rae
Design to Market
Managing Editor / Publisher
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Meet the 2010 Rocky Mountain MSDC Board of Directors
Tamela Lee (Chair) Director Small Business Opportunity Division City and County of Denver Denver, CO
Murugan Palani (Vice Chair) Manager, Supplier Diversity Xcel Energy Denver, CO Robert Gonzales (Treasurer) Plant Engineering Manager United Parcel Services Commerce City, CO
Nancy Gardner (Secretary) Small Business Development Liaison National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Golden, CO
Laurie Billeter Supplier Diversity Administrator Denver Water Denver, CO
Jared Casey
President Faison Office Products, LLC Aurora, CO
Denise Coley Director Global Supplier Diversity Business Development Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA
Bill Dempsey Director, Strategic Sourcing MillerCoors Golden, CO
Warren Elbeck Supplier Diversity Program Manager Raytheon Aurora, CO
Jasmin Espy (MBEIC Chair) President & CEO Summit Staffing Denver, CO
Belinda Hooks (MBEIC Vice Chair) President PromoLinks, LLC Littleton, CO
Loretta Lovell Director of Procurement Services & Special Projects Denver Housing Authority Denver, CO
Randy McCall Community Development Banking Manager Key Bank Denver, CO
John McGuire VP, Chief Procurement Officer Qwest Communications Denver, CO
Pat Roybal Supplier Diversity Administrator Lockheed Martin Space Systems Littleton, CO
Ken Robbins Sr. Vice President / Operations Manager W H Pacific, Inc. Denver, CO
James F. Sato (MBEIC Past Chair) President J.F. Sato & Associates, Inc. Littleton, CO
Faye Tate Vice President Diversity CH2MHill Companies Englewood, CO
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MBEIC
Committee Members
Jasmin Espy
(Chair)
Summit Staffing
Belinda Hooks (Vice Chair) (Chair, Communications and Outreach Committee) PromoLinks LLC
Faison Office Products LLC
Kenneth Robbins (MBE Co-Chair of Contracts Committee)
WH Pacific, Inc.
Jeannie Davis Now Hear This, Inc.
Martinez & Hromada Associates Inc.
Massie Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc.
Walker Fleming AxxessConnect
Joseph Serna DAWA Enterprises
Miriam Smith
Paridae Enterprises, LLC
Les Townsend
The Townsend Management Group
The Purpose of the Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee
The Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBE Input Committee) is a group of certified minority business enterprise representatives. The MBE Input Committee works in conjunction with the President, staff and Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (Rocky Mountain MSDC) to provide advice and input regarding the programs and projects implemented by the Rocky Mountain MSDC so that those programs and projects are relevant and supportive of minority business development, consistent with the 501©(3) tax exempt status of the Rocky Mountain MSDC.
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New Certifications
March 2010
Falcon Contracting, Inc.
Light Energy Designs
Hickman Electric, Inc.
Kebaya Coaching-Consulting
Ulibarri & Company
Huemanitas
Recertifications
March 2010
Aqua Nova Seafood, Inc.
Bianca E Nero
RIR Circuits, Inc.
DAWA Enterprises
Competitive Edge Consulting Inc.
Diversified Converting
RDM Precision Metal Corp.
Aztec Professional Services
MGM Waterproofing and Restoration
Source One Management, Inc.
AAA Organic Pest Control
Wolverine Services, LLC
Mountain Metrology
Sanchez, Tennis, & Associates
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Niloy, Inc.
Brenco Industrial Services, LLC
Construction Cost Systems, Inc.
World Wide Technology, Inc.
NextGen Information Services
Prokarma, Inc.
General Building Maintenance
Synergy Computer Solutions, Inc.
Ninyo & Moore
Persona Computing dba TeamPersona
ACT 1 Personnel Services, Inc.
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Get Connected ... Be Connected ... Stay Connected
Let's GET CONNECTED!
Welcome to the April 2010 edition of In Touch brought to you by the Rocky
Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council.
Participation in the 2010 Growth Through Partnership Conference (March 25) was impressive and worthy of the myriad activities we brought to our constituency and supporters. We thank all of our corporate members and our MBE beneficiaries for their roles in making this an event that will continue to reap benefits throughout the year. The networking opportunities alone made the conference unique, and the mixture of corporate and MBE workshops provided a lively platform to spring forward and discover new opportunities and new ways to approach existing opportunities. Our keynote speaker, Bill Sumner, regaled us with wit and wisdom and we celebrated award winners who are leaders in their respective fields. Indeed, an event to remember!
We are proud to announce our 2010 Growth Through Partnership Award Winners:

Pictured above, top left to right: Belinda Hooks, Stan Sena, Tamala Lee; Jasmin Espy, Gloria Neal; Annette Quintana, Gloria Neal, Stan Sena; Bottom Row, left to right: Tracy Williams; Nancy Gardner; Stan Sena, Laura Torrisi, Tamala Lee.
Corporation of the Year National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Also Nominated: City & County of Denver Denver Water MillerCoors
The nominations for this prestigious award are proffered by certified minority businesses of the Rocky Mountain MSDC. It is the sole responsibility of the Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBEIC) to evaluate all nominations and determine the winner of the award. The Corporation of the Year Award recognizes the corporation or government agency that, in the opinion of the certified minority business owners, has best evidenced its commitment to minority business development during the past year. The award is regarded as the most significant honor to a major corporation for the utilization of minority suppliers.
Supplier of the Year Class 1: PromoLinks, LLC (Belinda Hooks) Class 2: Summit Staffing Co. (Jasmin Espy) Class 3: Istonish (Annette Quintana)
Also Nominated: Class 1: Sandoval Engineering Class 2: Denver Cleaning Services, AdvenTech, Iloka Class 3: CADDO Solutions
These awards are given to minority suppliers who distinguish themselves and their businesses by successfully demonstrating growth in sales and employment while overcoming significant obstacles; consistently providing high quality products and services at competitive prices; and significantly contributing to the growth and development of society in their community. To be considered for an award, an MBE must be nominated by a corporate member and certified as a minority business by the Rocky Mountain MSDC or National Minority Supplier Development Council.
MBE to MBE Award Tradewinds Communications (Tracy Williams)
Also Nominated: EnviroFriendly Printing PromoLinks, LLC
This award is given to the minority supplier who continuously seeks ways to engage in business with other minority suppliers. They completely understand and embrace the concept and importance of supplier diversity not only within the business supply chain of corporate America and governmental entities but also within their own supply chain. In addition, they mentor and advise other minority businesses on how to be successful.
Nelson Ball Advocate of the Year Laura Torrisi - CH2MHill
Also Nominated: Nancy Gardner, NREL
This award recognizes
an individual who has been instrumental in creating, leading or
implementing minority business advocacy activities within their
organization or throughout the community or state. The award recipient
is someone who lends their experience and takes the risks needed to
improve the access of minority businesses with both corporate America
and government entities.
Special thanks to our Awards Committee: Nancy Gardner, NREL Angela Norris,Qwest Communications Robert Gonzalez, UPS Les Townsend, Townsend Management Group, LLC James Sato, J.F. Sato and Associates Stan Sena, RMMSDC Colleen Brave, RMMSDC Walker L. Fleming III, AxxessConnect
Please visit our home pagefor more scenes from Growth Through Partnership 2010.
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Message from Stan Sena, President & CEO
The Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council

Denver, Colorado - April 15, 2010
(Pictured at left, left to right: Bill Dempsey of MillerCoors, Laurie Billeter of Denver Water, and Stan Sena, at Growth Through Partnership, March 25, 2010)
To begin, it is important that all of you who participated in the 2010 Growth Through Partnership on March 25 know how very gratified we were to be able to bring such a substantive conference to our corporate members and MBE constituents. We put forth tremendous effort to bring you dynamic and groundbreaking conferences with the sole purpose of helping you to GET CONNECTED on a new and interesting platform. We were assisted by an able cadre of volunteers without whom we could not manage such a significant event. This year, our conference attendance increased by over 25 percent. Kudos to everyone involved. Our continued hope is that you will utilize all that you have learned at this event and expand upon unlimited possibilities. We are impressed with the number of our Minority Business Enterprise constituents who have completed our MBE Survey. The information you provide us will help us to understand your needs, especially in regard to ongoing education and networking activities. If you are a Rocky Mountain MSDC-Certified MBE, please make sure that you help us to represent you to our corporate members by completing this brief but important survey. The MBE Survey is located on our website; please link to it by connecting to our home page: www.rmmsdc.org. You will find the direct link to the survey on the left side of our home page.
Be sure to STAY CONNECTEDby joining us as we launch a new series of monthly events to emphasize "Social Networking: Beyond Business After Hours" this Spring. Our first event is April 21. More information is available on our web site.
Look for new about our continuing Access Opportunity Events. The next event will be sponsored by the City and County of Denver. Look for updates on our web site.
Of course, we are gearing up for our Annual Golf Tournament at Arrowhead on June 18. Sign upto participate as an individual or as a foursome and reserve your sponsorship today. Don't delay if you want to play!
Finally, I would like to remind all of our Minority Business Enterprise constituents that we want to work with you and there is no better way, other than through a face-to-face encounter, than to use our new ENHANCED CAPABILITY STATEMENT. This quick online form will enable us to represent you, as an MBE, to our corporate members and in so doing, let them know that your minority business enterprise is ready and eager to provide corporate America with goods and services that they need.
Our ENHANCED CAPABILITY STATEMENT is now available online. It is a simple online fill-in that each of our MBE constituents should complete and submit so that we can upload the information and place it into a template that will then be categorized as to products/services.
Stan Sena President & CEO
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New Event: Wed., April 21, 2010
Social Networking: Beyond Business After Hours
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MBE Spotlight on Jeannie Davis of Now Hear This

Jeannie Davis is a speaker, trainer and award-winning author of Beyond "Hello." Jeannie is an
authority on telephone communication for great customer service and has
trained thousands of individuals to maximize the profit- and
image-building power of their #1 business communication tool. She is an experienced and entertaining presenter on values that drive customer service excellence. She is also the contributing author in Real World Customer Service
Strategies That Work. Jeannie's respected affiliation with Fortune 500 companies and national associations is a testament that he keynotes and seminars are beneficial to organizations throughout the country. She is a 20-year veteran of U.S. West (now Qwest Communications), where she regaled and educated audiences on becoming aware of how behavior and attitude affect the bottom line of every business, large and small. Jeannie recently presented to the Rocky Mountain MSDC in her unique way with a provocative topic: "If We're So Good - How Come We Ain't Better?" Another of her thought-provoking topics include "You Seem to Have Mistaken Me for Someone Who Cares!" In her witty and winning manner, Jeannie teaches her rapt audiences about meeting the challenge of managing attitude and painting a positive self-portrait while
communicating with others over the telephone. She demonstrates with vivid illustrations how we unintentionally solicit negative responses or reactions
that get in the way of effective customer interaction. Now Hear This, Inc. is a Minority Business Enterprise as certified by the Rocky Mountain MSDC. Jeannie Davis is an active member of the Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee.
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Corporate Spotlight: Border States Electric

Border States Electricis one of the largest
independent electrical distributors in the United States providing
products and services to the construction, industrial, and utility
industries. Border States is a whole sale distributor of Electrical, Natural Gas, and industrial supplies, as well as a logistics integrator. BSE is function as a a Prime Supplier to Xcel Energy.
Border States is a 100% employee-owned company, and
employee-ownership is a significant part of our culture. BSE's success
stems from the dedication of its employee-owners. BSE practices open-book
management and our employee-owners are empowered with clearly defined
levels of authority to be innovative and decisive, allowing BSE to
respond quickly to the needs of its customers.
Border States customers rely on BSE for product knowledge, superior service,
training, and technical expertise for:
· Electrical Supplies for Commercial and Residential Construction
and Maintenance
· Data Communications and Networking Supplies
· Industrial Automation and Control Products
· Industrial Supplies for Maintenance, Repair, Operating and
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Your Connection to 2010 Activities and Events
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The Rocky Mountain MSDC's Standing Committees The MBEIC currently has two standing committees. They are the Contracts Committeeand the Communications and Outreach Committee. Other committees are formed on an as needed basis.
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The purpose of the Contracts Committee is to facilitate mutually beneficial contractual relationships between certified MBEs and corporate members of the Council. The Contracts Committee continues to identify and work on various goals. The committee has outlined the following five goals. They are as follows: 1) Complete work on a database matrix that captures information supplied to the Council regarding corporations, MBEs, current and potential customers to identify contract, RFP's, and other growth opportunities; 2) Work to ensure that the Access Opportunity Meetings have key decision makers from "hosting" corporation. Develop guidelines for the meetings to allow great participation and produce end results; 3) Identify MBEs (per industry or service group) who will be attending Access Opportunity meetings; 4) Utilize the MBE Communique to identify potential contract opportunities; 5) Distribute and include Capability Statement document to MBEs during the recertification, reciprocal or new certification process. Capability Statement will be made available on on-line and can be easily updated accordingly.
Further information about the Contracts Committee can be obtained from or directed to its MBE Co-Chairperson, Walker Fleming of Axxess Connect who can be reached at 866.820.5151.
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The purpose of the Communications and Outreach Committee is to develop, recommend and help implement strategies, programs, professional development workshops and seminars, MBE Survey, monthly InTouch ezine and procedures to maintain effective communications with the Rocky Mountain MSDC's MBEs and corporate members. The committee is responsible for developing strategies to increase MBE certification and participation in the Rocky Mountain MSDC. Members of the committee are: Lily Poon (AdvenTech); Andra Hargrave (Global Sales Advisors); Ron Hunter (TypeEtc); Ellsworth Grant (EnviroFriendly Printing); and Kathryn Rae (Design to Market). Further information regarding the Communications and Outreach Committee, may be obtained from or directed to its Chairperson, Belinda Hooks of PromoLinks, LLC who can be reached at 303.979.3405.
The Communications and Outreach Committee has produced a unique and picturesque Rocky Mountain MSDC 12-month calendar, a brochure, and a Save the Date postcard to be distributed in January 2010. The committee is also working on the following deliverables: Run list for InTouch; MBE orientation, professional development topics, speakers, webinars, and community outreach efforts. This committee continues to support the Events Committee with marketing, news releases, website updates including podcasts highlighting speakers, event presentation support and booklet design for specific events such as Growth Through Partnership, and more.
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Events Committee Formed:
The newly formed Rocky Mountain MSDC Events Committee Co-Chairpersons are Laurie Billeter of Denver Water and Tami Young of Adven-Tech. The committee is responsible for three major events of the Rocky Mountain MSDC: Growth Through Partnership, the Golf Tournament and the Business Opportunity Fair. |
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Our Mission
The mission of The Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council is to drive the growth of Minority Business Enterprises through business relationships with corporations, government entities, academic institutions, and others.
In alignment with our mission, The Rocky Mountain MSDC provides corporate America, government entities , academic institutions and others with greater access to the goods and services of minority-owned businesses, helping them develop lasting and mutually beneficial business relationships. The RMMSDC supports and develops minority-owned business enterprises in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico.
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If you're a minority business enterprise, you'll have the opportunity to expand your business prospects. By becoming a corporate member, you'll have access to the most diverse minority businesses, both in products and services provided. It's a win-win for everyone.
Whether you're a minority business enterprise (MBE) or a corporation, there are several reasons for joining our organization:
- Expanded business opportunities. Our minority businesses have secured billions of dollars in contracts from our member corporations. In fact, more than two-thirds of MBEs confirm an increase in revenues as a result of partnerships with corporate members.
- Local, regional and national referrals of minority businesses to member corporations.
- Exposure to leading national companies, and The Council corporate members throughout Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico.
- Participation in education programs and workshops.
- Opportunities to network with corporate members at various RMMSDC events and activities.
- Scholarship awards for CEOs of minority businesses to prestigious business schools in the country.
- Access to working capital loans.
- Opportunity to showcase or exhibit your products and services at RMMSDC's annual Minority Business Opportunity Day.
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