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Press Release
BUSINESS COMMUNITY INVITED TO MEET NEW 2006-07 NAWBO-LA AND ENTERPRISE
INSTITUTE BOARDS SHOWCASING DIVERSITY AND SUCCESS OF LA’S WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR
Installation Takes Place Sept. 19 at Millennium Biltmore Hotel
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(LOS ANGELES) Los Angeles’ business community is invited to celebrate
the power of women entrepreneurs and the impact of leadership by attending the
installation of the 2006-07 board members of the National Association of Woman
Business Owners-Los Angeles Chapter (NAWBO-LA) and the Enterprise Institute
of NAWBO-LA. Sunne Wright McPeak, secretary of the California
Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, will speak as installing officer.
The board members, notable for representing the diversity of the local business
community, will take office during a 6 p.m.-9 p.m. reception on Sept. 19 at
the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Each year, NAWBO-LA – the region’s leading women’s business
organization – and the Enterprise Institute – a nonprofit foundation
dedicated to initiatives and research that promote the entrepreneurship of women
– attract a group of dynamic and diverse women entrepreneurs as leaders
to help the organizations inspire and empower women business owners into economic,
political and social spheres of leadership.
The annual board installation will draw from and embrace the Los Angeles entrepreneurial
community at large with attendance from public dignitaries, corporate and community
representatives and the fastest-growing segment of the nation’s economy
– women business owners.
“The new NAWBO-LA Board of Directors will continue to establish our organization
as the preeminent organization of choice for women entrepreneurs and as the
partner of choice for corporations and community organizations,” said
NAWBO-LA Executive Director Helen Han.
She added, “For the Enterprise Institute, this year’s exemplary
board will provide the broad-based stewardship to launch the Legacy Society
with an initial objective of raising $100,000 annually to match the unprecedented,
$1-million challenge grant announced earlier this year by NAWBO-LA President-Emeritus
Patty DeDominic of PDQ Careers Group.”
The new NAWBO-LA Board of Directors includes:
- Bonnie Nijst, president (Zeesman Communications, Inc. in
Beverly Hills),
- Audrey Keller, past president/chair (Dolphin Data Corp.
in Calabasas),
- Laura Yamanaka, president-elect (teamCFO, Inc. in Los
Angeles),
- Marguerite Rangel, secretary (Rangel/Schaffer of Strategic
Financial Group/NMFN in Culver City),
- Madelyn Alfano, treasurer (Maria’s Italian Kitchen
in Van Nuys),
- Bonique Edwards, vice president of membership (Kaleidoscope
Consulting Group in Culver City),
- Susan McCabe, vice president of public policy (McCabe &
Company in Sacramento and Marina del Rey),
- Tracy Beavers, director (Cooper Beavers, Inc. in Encino),
- Sharon Johnson, director (Creative Cuisine Concepts in
Torrance),
- Mary McCormick, director (MBI Media in Diamond Bar),
- Jane Skeeter, director (UltraGlas, Inc. in Chatsworth)
and
- Helen Han, executive director (NAWBO-LA).
The Enterprise Institute Board of Directors includes:
- Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire, chair (Berkhemer Clayton, Inc.
in Los Angeles),
- Renee White Fraser, Ph.D., past chair (Fraser Communications
in Santa Monica),
- Barbara Nielsen, treasurer (Barbara L. Nielsen, CPA in
La Crescenta) and
- Helen Han, executive director (NAWBO-LA).
Directors at large include:
- Loreen Arbus (Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc. in Los Angeles),
- JoAnn Bourne (Union Bank of California in Los Angeles),
- Sheila Cluff (The Oaks at Ojai in Ojai),
- Susan Cotton (WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. in Thousand
Oaks),
- Patty DeDominic (PDQ Careers Group in Los Angeles),
- Maureen Fahey (KPMG, LLP in Woodland Hills),
- Fay Feeney (Envision Strategic Group in Hermosa Beach),
- Janet Kerr (Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & Law
at Pepperdine University in Malibu),
- Margot Kyd (Sempra Energy utilities in San Diego), and
- Maria de Lourdes Sobrino (LuLu's Desserts, Corp. in Anaheim).
Nijst, incoming NAWBO-LA board president, said, “I'm thrilled to lead
this extraordinary organization as we continue to deepen our roots in the women's
entrepreneurial community and as we look to embrace a shared future that goes
above and beyond each one of us as individual business owners."
Added Enterprise Institute incoming chair Berkhemer-Credaire, “It’s
an honor to chair the Enterprise Institute board as we launch the Legacy Society
to create a place – both virtual and physical – where women entrepreneurs
can access the resources they need to grow their businesses, wield their influence
and affect economic, political and social change.”
Event sponsors include American Honda Motor Company, Inc. (Platinum); OPEN
from American Express, PDQ Careers Group (Gold); and Los Angeles World Airports,
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Playa Vista, Port of Los
Angeles, Southern California Edison and Southern California Gas Company-Sempra
Energy (Bronze).
Event registration and sponsorship information, plus
biographies of the incoming NAWBO-LA and Enterprise Institute board members,
is available at www.nawbola.org. |
About NAWBO-LA
Founded in 1979, NAWBO-Los Angeles is one of the largest and fastest-growing
chapters of the National Association of Women Business Owners. NAWBO-LA strives
to empower and enable women entrepreneurs into economic, political and social
spheres of leadership. Representing more than 335,000 women-owned businesses
in Los Angeles and Long Beach, employing more than 700,000 people, and generating
more than $113 billion in annual revenues, NAWBO-LA members have become an increasingly
active and powerful force shaping the economic and political landscape of Southern
California. For more information about NAWBO-LA, please visit www.nawbola.org,
e-mail info@nawbola.org, or call (213)
622-3200.
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