by David Esrati on October 2, 2008
The 6th Annual Veteran Owned Business Symposium is being held in Kent, OH on the campus of Kent State University on 13-Nov 2008.
This will be a great opportunity to learn from a variety of business development resources, benefit from Government contracting workshops, network with Federal and State buying activities, and meet with Government, Prime Contractor and Private Industry Buyers.
Keynote Luncheon Speaker:
William Hartnett
Director, Ohio Department of Veteran Services
This event is being offered to provide area Veterans with an opportunity to:
- Learn from a variety of business development resources
- Network with Federal and State buying activities
- Benefit from Government contracting workshops
- Meet with Government, Prime Contractor and Private Industry Buyers
Registration can be done online for $40/person. This event has filled up in the past and has been limited to VOB’s and SDVOB’s only.
Read the flyer for more details.sixth-annual-veteran-business-symposium
by David Esrati on November 29, 2007
We’re here in force at the Symposium, President Bill Brownsberger, VP David Esrati, Dan Sack, Gary Munoz, Bill Pollard, Pat Suarez and his staff from GSA Proposals are a sponsor of the event- and allowing us to share his table.
Last night at the hotel, we met with other Veterans including Denny McBroom from Telpro Inc. and the NW Ohio SBA rep, John Renner, as well as a Diversity manager for First Energy- and discussed a Statewide network of VOB/SDVOB’s much like the Elite SDVOB organization in California. More to follow on this.
If you happen to be here at the conference- please find one of us, most are wearing our VOB 108 shirts.
I introduced myself to Keynote speaker Mal Mixon, Chairman and CEO of Invacare corporation- (and former Marine) and asked if he might consider helping lobby Columbus to adopt a progressive Vet Biz plan for State purchasing. Unfortunately, Mr. Mixon thinks that this is a partisan political issue, and that his efforts as a Republican wouldn’t be well received in Columbus. If he happens to read this, I’d like to remind him- all Veterans are patriots first, and there are no parties when you serve Uncle Sam.