Category: MBE Spotlight

Chih-Chin Sun has extensive branding, marketing, and communications experience, having worked with a large roster of global brands. She has focused her career on positioning and promoting products and services for companies that are expanding internationally. Ms. Sun founded EMMA Worldwide in 1998 as a marketing and promotions house in New York City. She expanded […]

As the Procurement Outreach Partner at  the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (FHLBNY) for over four years Navin Persaud has been responsible for procurement, supplier diversity and facilities management in the Corporate Real Estate department. Navin’s primary role is to support the procurement function, which includes supplier diversity initiatives under the pillars of […]

Azra Khalfan-Kermali, is the founder and CEO of Away in a BOX, a division of Plaques by Azra and Signs and Lucite Products. Plaques by Azra is a trusted supplier for awards and signs and recently expanded to offer a Cultural Intelligence Training Program for employee engagement and leadership development. Azra was born and raised in Queens, […]

Jessica Johnson-Cope is a business executive who combines experience, communications, and common sense to address her clients’ safety and security challenges. Jessica leads the amazing team at Johnson Security Bureau where for 60 years her family has protected valuable people, places and property in the Tri-State area. Every day, highly respected organizations and corporations entrust […]

As a leading, certified, minority-owned, full-service insurance broker and risk advisor headquartered in Secaucus, NJ, the Alamo Insurance Group is devoted to finding the opportunity in risk. Whether risk identification, assessment, prioritization, or mitigation, we are committed to delivering a truly differentiated client experience. Our founder and principal, Luis Alamo, has personally guided the agency […]

Captivate Marketing Group is led by Yvonne McNair, the highly creative certified Entertainment Marketing Professional and two-time Emmy Nominated Event Producer. Yvonne has a proven track record of conceptualizing and orchestrating small and large production events, marketing campaigns and programs to effectively create business development opportunities, and increase revenue and growth. Yvonne is known as […]

Sharad D. Madison, is President and CEO of United Building Maintenance (UBM). The company was founded in 1991 by his late Dad, Oliver Madison. The company provides commercial building maintenance, inclusive of janitorial and engineering services, to Fortune 100 companies and high-profile clients in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Some of UBM’s clients are […]

Ha’no:wa:h, meaning “turtle”, is a representation of “Mother Earth”. The hard shell of the turtle represents perseverance and protection, and according to some Native American tribes, the turtle played a role in the “creation” story. Sam Campbell, majority owner of Hanowah, is part of the Cayuga Nation turtle clan. After years in the construction industry, interfacing directly with oil, gas, and power generation as a […]

Tribal Capital Markets, LLC is a full-service broker-dealer organized under the auspices of The Morongo Band of Mission Indians and is the largest Native American-owned broker-dealer in the United States. Utilizing its $5MM-plus of regulatory capital, the firm offers underwriting, sales distribution, and trading services in structured finance, corporate and agency debt, equity capital raising, […]

Josué Rivera is a tax and business advisory partner with Rivera & Montes CPA where he advises small and medium-size businesses with their accounting, compliance, and tax needs. Josue has over 22 years of professional experience, 19 of them with PwC. His expertise spans across multi-national companies, large compliance engagements, and large family-owned businesses in […]