| IMMEDIATE
RELEASE: Friday, February
15, 2008
Senator
Ben Cardin to address
CEO’s at MBRT Policy &
Politics Legislative Forum
- MBRT
convenes national business
leaders to discuss the
future of minority business
- Senator
Cardin presented with
Congressional Leadership
Award
Baltimore, MD
– MBRT is presenting Senator
Ben Cardin (D-MD) with
its Congressional Leadership
Award in recognition for
his leadership helping
small and minority businesses
on the Senate Small Business
& Entrepreneurship
Committee. “Senator Cardin
has committed his time
and energy working with
the Senate and House Leadership
to provide a voice for
small and minority businesses
which often lack muscle
to expand budget and program
priorities for this underserved
constituency”, said Roger
A. Campos, Founding President
& CEO, MBRT. “Minority
businesses are growing
three times faster than
other businesses and employ
millions of Americans
creating jobs and economic
growth. We need to work
together in bi-partisan
partnership to strengthen
and expand opportunities.”
Roger A. Campos said,
“Senator Cardin has been
and continues to be a
national leader on minority
business and those issues
such as health care, retirement,
security and fiscal issues
important to all Americans.
MBRT looks forward to
working on legislation
with Senator Cardin and
the Senate Small Business
Committee to deliver and
improve needed services
to ’s small and minority
businesses and their workforce.”
About the Minority
Business RoundTable:
The Minority Business
RoundTable is the only
national non-profit organization
for CEOs of the nation's
leading African-American,
Asian-American, Hispanic-American,
Native-American and other
minority-owned businesses.
Its members analyze and
help formulate effective
public policies that impact
minority-owned business.
MBRT charter member firms
earned gross sales from
$53 million to more than
$5 billion per company
and employs between 80
and 4,000 people.
The Minority Business
RoundTable is proud to
have Aerotek, Inc., one
of the nation’s leading
provider of personnel
services, the Business
Roundtable, an association
of chief executive officers
of the country’s leading
corporations, the Kauffman
Foundation, U.S. Department
of Energy, U.S. Small
Business Administration,
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Department
of Labor and other federal
agencies as strategic
partners. For more information
on the Minority Business
RoundTable, please visit
www.mbrt.net.
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NEWS RELEASE
Minority Business Roundtable
1629 K Street, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20006
Contact: Roger A Campos
President & CEO
Minority Business Roundtable
202-289-8881
rogercampos@mbrt.net |
