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Small Business Administration Veteran Matchmaking Event
   Left to right -- Mr. Tim Foreman, Director Small Business Programs U.S.Navy, ME; Ms. Jane Stewart, Director of 5th Veterans Business Conference, Elyria, Ohio PTAC; Lt. Col. James Blanco, Director of Service Disabled Programs U.S. Army; Mr. John Caporal, Deputy Director United States (USAF) Air Force Small Business Programs, Elyria, Ohio
   This Veteran Matchmaking series was cosponsored by Sam’s Club and SBA with the first event was held at the San Antonio Airport Hilton Hotel in San Antonio, Texas on October 29th. The second event was held in Sacramento, California on November 9th, 2007.
   Business Matchmaking offered opportunities for veteran owned businesses to participate in the procurement opportunities offered by government agencies. The program united education, training, key resources and tools with actual face-to-face matchmaking meeting opportunities with procurement representatives from different government agencies.
    Below are more photos from both events (names are provided below photos in left to right order) --
 
  Mr. Hutchinson, business leader in California and a Vietnam veteran, Jerry Caton and Dennis DeMolet
 
  Major General Retired John Speigel, Booz Allen Hamilton; Staff Sgt Ken Weichert, and Mr. Billy Jenkins, SBA Veterans Business Development office.
 
  Mr. Jim O'Neal, Sacramento, California District SBA Director; Regional Director SBA California; Bruce Thompson, SSG Weichert USA; Mr. Joe Joel Szabat Chief of Staff SBA, Ms. Cheryl Warobick, Market Manager Sam's Club
 
  Mr. David Boxx, Market Manager Sam's Club of America, greeting a Veteran owned small business owner.
 
  Sam's registration table at Sacramento, California event
 
  Ms. Cheryl Warobick, Regional Market Manager for Sam's Club Sacramento, California with the Sam's Club Wall of Honor, and two attending veterans
 
  Molly Hunt, Coordinator for Sam's Club Veterans Business Conferences, from Pierce Promotions; Dennis DeMolet; Michelle Mader, Coordinator for Sam's Club Veterans Business Conferences, from Pierce Promotions
 
 
On September 9, 2007, Dennis DeMolet and Tyrone Lassiter of the Center for Veterans Enterprise (VA) provided key note presentations at a Charleston, W. Virginia Procurement Conference helping area businesses grow with Government Contracts.
 
 
 
2007 SBA Advisory Committee on Veterans Business Affairs -- Pictured from left to right: Ron Miller, Louis J. Celli, Jr., Paul Adams, Dennis DeMolet, Joe Sharpe, Tom Bednarczyk, Mark Gross, and La Vonne Jinks-Umstead (Not Pictured: Jerry Caton and Ron Zola)  
 
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President Bush's Executive Order 13360 Encourages Increased Federal Contracting Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business...SBA News Release
 
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