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Stan Sena
President & CEO
Director of Operations
Breana Parker
Certification
Coordinator 
InTouch Editors:
Belinda Hooks
Director of Operations (RMMSDC)
Editor in Chief
(Pictured above)
Kathryn Rae
Design to Market
InTouch Managing Editor
Do you have an interesting success story about your minority enterprise that you would like to share with a readership of over 3,000? We would like to review it for InTouch. Please submit questions, articles and comments to info@rmmsdc.org | | |
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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
(Secretary, MBEIC)
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
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
James F. Sato (MBEIC Past Chair)
President
J.F. Sato & Associates, Inc.
Littleton, CO
Faye Tate
Vice President Diversity
CH2MHill Companies
Englewood, CO
Jeannie Davis
(MBEIC Vice Chair)
President
Now Hear This!
Denver, CO
Les Townsend
President & CEO
Townsend Management
Denver, CO
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MBEIC
Committee
Members
Jasmin Espy
Jeannie Davis
(Vice Chair)
Now Hear This, Inc.
Jared Casey
(Secretary)
Faison Office Products LLC
Martinez & Hromada Associates Inc.
Massie Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc.
Walker Fleming
AxxessConnect
James F. Sato
(MBEIC Past Chair)
President
J.F. Sato & Associates, Inc.
Littleton, CO
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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Certifications
September 2010
The AR Group, LLP
Triunity Engineering & Management
AA American Moving & Storage
MNJ Consulting, Inc.
Forever Young & Associates
Gilmore Construction Corporation
Recertifications
September 2010
Sparkle Maintenance, Inc.
XL Edge, LLC
Die Cut Technologies
Premier Manufacturing & Supply Chain Services
Image Projections West
Martinez & Hromada Associates, Inc.
Leasing Associates, Inc.
Dataman USA, LLC
Whayne & Sons Enterprises, Inc.
Ki, LLC
Reciprocal Certifications
September 2010
Shrewsberry & Associates, LLC
UNISERVE Facilities Corporation dba UNISERV
DTR Transport, LLC
CSA Central, Inc.
Einsultion n.com, Inc.
GeoLogics Corporation
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Two Rocky Mountain MSDC companies honored during Minority Enterprise Development Week in Denver, Colorado
The Rocky Mountain MSDC is one of 14 MED Week partners who hosted six dynamic events during the week of September 13-17. At the conclusion of the week, Business Awards were awarded in various categories. Qwest Communications, a corporate member of the Rocky MSDC, and Summit Container (a Rocky Mountain MSDC Minority Business Enterprise constituent) won honors for their unique contributions to minority business enterprise.
Congratulations to Qwest Communications and Summit Container for their enduring contributions to their communities and to the minority business arena in Colorado!
MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR Summit Container Corporation is a 27 year old award-winning manufacturer of corrugated packaging. Their corporate headquarters are in Monument, Colorado. The firm has 3 primary manufacturing, assembly and logistic facilities in Monument, and Arvada Colorado and Downingtown, Pennsylvania. The company's objective is to not just provide creative cost effective quality packaging solutions, but to reach the highest levels of customer service. J. Joe Mena, President of Summit states that we want our customers to enjoy working with us. We have long held that any time one of Summit's employees contacts a customer - that customer should have a better day.
CORPORATION OF THE YEAR Qwest Communications Company is a leading provider of voice, video and data services. Qwest is the premier provider of full-service communications for people at work, at home or on the move. Qwest believes that embracing diversity and creating a culture of inclusion makes Qwest a better company. By incorporating a variety of viewpoints, insights and perspectives, Qwest is a better service provider, a better community partner and better able to serve its diverse employee and customer base. To achieve their goals, and assure continued opportunities and growth for MWDVBE suppliers, the Supplier Diversity Organization collaborates with Qwest's Procurement Organization's strategic sourcing managers, who oversee the daily management and strategic relationships with prime minority and non-minority suppliers. Qwest's Supplier Diversity team meets regularly with the strategic sourcing teams to provide assistance with any MWDVBE issues or questions; to assist with the Request for Proposal ("RFP") bidding processes; and to ensure that the strategic sourcing teams understand and incorporate Qwest's MWDVBE initiatives in contracts with Qwest. Qwest supports a number of diversity groups made up of Qwest employees who have a common interest in promoting the company's diversity philosophy. These internal resource groups have as a goal to participate in community outreach activities on behalf of Qwest and often refer suppliers to Qwest. At Qwest, creating sustainable supplier diversity participation in their supply chain is critically important, and they are very successful at making it happen. Pictured below: Angela Norris, Supplier Diversity Manager of Qwest Communications, and Joe Mena, President, Summit Container Corporation
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Message from Stan Sena, President & CEO
The Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council
Denver, Colorado - September 28, 2010
 At left: Stan Sena and colleagues at the Business After Hours Celebration of MED Week (Minority Enterprise Development). September 15, 2010
Summer connections lead to fall harvest Summer has officially ended and now the real opportunity for doing business with our Corporate members begins. Have you had a chance to check out our Events Calendar on our website yet? We have a full schedule of events for October and November designed to provide our MBEs access to and opportunity from our Corporate members.
In September, over 50 MBEs and Corporate members who attended our Qwest Access Opportunity Meeting had a rare chance to listen to the Qwest procurement group talk about how to do business with them. Participants also learned moreabout the type of MBE that Qwest is looking to do business with, and, finally, Qwest described in detail business opportunities available to MBEs for the next three quarters! Attendees also got a chance to meet the Qwest procurement directors for the various buying disciplines within the Qwest business units - a rare face-to-face chance to interact with individuals who are responsible for over $3 BILLION DOLLARS of spend! Qwest rarely has the entire purchasing management group in a single event but, because of their relationship with the Council, they wanted to provide our MBEs an unprecedented opportunity to meet the decision makers. If you were there - great; you've got a leg up on your competition. If you weren't there - why not? You missed an opportunity.
In October and November, we will have other Access Opportunity Meetings with MillerCoors/Ball/Duran, The City & County of Denver, Shell Oil, and Xcel Energy. These are opportunities for our MBEs to gain access to corporate buyers AND to get information about purchasing opportunities they will have for the upcoming year. Savvy MBEs will make it a priority to attend - will you?
I want to thank Wes Garnett of W. Garnett & Associates for all his hard work and contribution to providing Council constituents with three great professional development workshops over the last few months. September's workshop featured writing effective job descriptions and evaluating employee performance. Although we have seen these types of workshops recently put on by Chambers and other organizations for a cost (typically anywhere from $79-$149), this Council and Wes provided these workshops for FREE. Why weren't you or some of your staff there?
Don't forget our monthly Social Networking Event at Marlowe's on the 16th Street Mall. For the price of a drink you can get the opportunity to meet many of your fellow MBEs and a number of our corporate members in an informal setting and ANOTHER chance to get to know each other better. It's amazing how much business gets done at this event.
Finally, I would like to welcome and introduce two new Corporate members to the Council. Janus Capital Group-Chris Desiato & Demesha McKinney; and Golden Aluminum-Leonard Krise & Jeff Frim. We will be highlighting each of these new members in our next few newsletters..
Stan Sena
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Access Opportunity: Qwest Communications
The Rocky Mountain MSDC would like to thank Angela Norris, Supplier Diversity Manager of Qwest Communications, for the memorable event hosted this September which connected minority business enterprises to corporate member Qwest Communications.
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Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee
Nominations
We are currently soliciting nominations for positions available on the Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBEIC). We encourage all Certified MBE's to participate and assist in the growth of the Committee and MBE's. We want individuals that are dedicated to "Planting Seeds For Tomorrows Business Success". You may nominate someone and/or nominate yourself as a candidate.
Some of the goals of the committee are to promote/create sense of belonging-increase affiliation with RMMSDC. Make RMMSDC membership aspirational. Create better MBE to Corporation business.
If this is you or someone you know please consider running for one of the four positions available.
The Nomination Forms are required to be returned by October 10, 2010. The forms may be downloaded from the Home Page of the Council's website: www.rmmsdc.org.
Qualifications for MBEIC Membership
- All MBEIC members must be certified by the RMMSDC for at least one (1) year.
- The MBE must be a certified minority business owner, or principal. A Principal is defined as a 'key member of the MBEIC member's firm who can commit the firm to a decision or a course of action on behalf of the MBEIC or Council'.
- Nominees must submit two letters of recommendation
- Nominees are required to attend the October Access Opportunity Meeting in order to introduce themselves to the MBE body
- Candidates(s) receiving the highest number of votes shall fill the open position(s).
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Welcome to Our New Corporate Members
Border States Electric Supply
CPI Card Group FirstBank Janus Capital Group White Lodging twtelecom Peabody Energy National Corporate Housing Denver Transit Partners StarTek USTA International Golden Aluminum
Corporate Benefits Include - Access to a larger pool of qualified suppliers
- Meets strategic objective of having your supplier base reflect your customer base
- Provides greater savings and higher quality goods and services due to increased competition
- Direct correlation between minority business development and corporate economic development efforts in the community where you do business
- Opportunity to open the door to new markets
- Offers assistance in developing or improving your company's diversity programs
- Exhibits strong corporate social responsibility
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 MBE Spotlight on Byte Technology
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Please visit the Rocky Mountain MSDC's website at www.rmmsdc.org for late-breaking details about all upcoming events. 
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Join us to Access Opportunity with MillerCoors, Ball Corporation and Duran Oil
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Join us to Access Opportunity with the City and County of Denver of October 19, 2010
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 Get Ready for the NMSDC National Conference
The National Minority Supplier Development Council
Conference and
Business Opportunity Fair will be held October 24-27
at the Miami Beach
Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida.
This four-day benchmark forum is the ONLY event that brings together thousands of corporate executives, procurement professionals and Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American business owners.
Choose from 32 targeted sessions and comprehensive workshops; visit more than 660
exhibit booths at the one-day Business Opportunity Fair; and network, network, network!
Be a part of this unique event. Register online today!
EDUCATION
http://www.nmsdc.org/nmsdc/app/template/Content.vm/attachmentid/3029
REGISTRATION
http://portal.nmsdconline.com/PortalTools/Login.cfm
BROCHURE
http://www.nmsdc.org/nmsdc/app/template/Content.vm/attachmentid/3025
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Minority Enterprise Development Week:
Sept. 13 - 17, 2010
A successful celebration of minority enterprise by 14 Colorado partners
Dear MED Week Participants & Sponsors: On behalf of the MED Week Partners, we thank you for participation, support and sponsorship of the 2010 MED Week Events that were held in Denver, Colorado (September 13 - 17). Without YOU the MED Week events would not have been a tremendous success! Again, we thank you! The MED Week Partners are busily planning MED Week for 2011. We value and need your feedback! Please take a few moments to go to: http://omer2.survey2go.net/omer398/admin/online/anonymous_sessionless.aspx?account=0043&printout=123 and complete a short ten (10) minute survey. Deadline for completion of the survey is Monday, October 4, 2010. Finally, by completing the survey and providing your contact information, you will be included in a Grand Prize Drawing of a Hotel Suite Package. Thanks again for making this year's MED Week activities a success! We look forward to seeing you in 2011. Sincerely, The MED Week Partners
Portfolio of MED Week
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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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