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Asian American Business Roundtable (AABR)
 
Rawlein G. Soberano. Ph.D., President
 
20224 Thunderhead Way Suite B
Germantown, MD 20874
 
Phone: (301) 601-9038
Toll Free: 1-866-215-4365 (PIN# 4766)
Fax: (301) 601-9430
Email: aabr89@aol.com
 
 
 
United States Department of Agriculture
Small Business Awards Ceremony
Presented by the
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Thursday, June 5, 2003
Patio, Jamie L. Whitten Building
PHOTO 1:  Center:  Dr. Rowlein Soberano, President
AABR, receipient of the USDA Office Office of Small and 
Disadvantaged Business Utilization
PHOTO2:  Dr. and Mrs. Soberano of Asian 
American Business Roundtable 

A G E N D A

Mistress of Ceremonies
Sherry Cohen
Welcoming Remarks
Joe Ware
Associate Director, OSDBU
Introduction
John Surina
Deputy Assistant Secretary
For Administration
Keynote Remarks
Reuben Barrales
Dep. Asst. to the President and
 Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
The Whitehouse
Presentation of Small
Business Awards
Sherry Cohen
Stella Hughes
Presentation of 
Javits-Wagner-O'Day
(JWOD) Awards
John Surina
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Administration
Closing Remarks
Richard Holcombe
Joe Ware
 
USDA 2003 Small Business Contractor of the Year
EL Jay Poultry Corporation
Bruce Utain, VP Sales
Voorhees, New Jersey

 

NOMINATING AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Services
 
USDA AGENCY SMALL BUSINESS AWARD WINNERS
AOAC International                                      Farmers Rice Milling Company  
E. James Bradford                                       Nanette Noland
Executive Director                                        President
Gaithersburg, Maryland                                 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
 
  NOMINATING AGENCY:                              NOMINATING AGENCY:
  Food Safety and Inspection Service               Farm Service Agency
 
Cisneros Construction, Inc.                            Wooten Construction Company
Juan Cisneros, Jr.                                         Ken Wooten
Owner                                                          Vice President
Portland, Oregon                                           Las Cruces, New Mexico
 
  NOMINATING AGENCY:                               NOMINATING AGENCY:
Forest Service                                               Agricultural Research Service

 

USDA 2003 SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS
CONRACTOR OF THE YEAR
 
ACTS
Astrid Contract Technical Services, Inc.
Astrid Stuard, Owner
New Ellenton, South Carolina
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:  Forest Service
 
USDA AGENCY SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS AWARD WINNERS
Gholkar, Inc.                                         Network Specialty Group, Inc.
Shashi Gholkar, President                     Prasen Vasavada, President
Victor, New York                                  Gaithersburg, Maryland
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:                       NOMINATING AGENCY:
Food Safety & Inspection Service           Office of Procurement & Property Mgmt.
   
Imperial Sales Company                        Pacific Freight Express
Dan Gibbs/Philip Catalano, Owners        Iry Jones, President
Watsonville, California                           Seattle, Washington
   
NOMINATING AGENCY:                       NOMINATING AGENCY:
Agricultural Marketing Service                Farm Service Agency
 
Warden Associates
JoAnn Warden
Springfield, Virginia
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:
Food and Nutrition Service
 
 
USDA 2003 WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS
CONTRACTOR OF THE YEAR
 
Blue Skies Consulting, LLC
Tami Wiggins, CEO
Albuquerque, New Mexico
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:  Farm Service Agency/APFO
 
 
 
USDA AGENCY WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS AWARD WINNERS
Columbus Foods Company                  Mil-Ray Food Company
Kathy Miller, Director                           Mildred Raymond, Owner
Chicago, Illinois                                   Sicklerville, New Jersey
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:                      NOMINATING AGENCY:
Farm Service Agency/CO                     Agricultural marketing Service
 
Consolidated Safety Services, Inc.         The Newberry Group
Jolanda Janczewski, President              Brenda Newberry, resident
Fairfax, Virginia                                    Saint Charles, Missouri
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:                       NOMINATING AGENCY:
Food Safety & Inspection Services         Off. of Procurement & Property Mgmt.
 
HW&W, Inc.                                        Sita Business Systems
Rhoda Mancher, President                    Liesha Mehra, Owner
Bethesda, Maryland                             Chantilly, Virginia
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:                       NOMINATING AGENCY:
Agricultural Research Services               Animal & Plant Health Insp. Svc.
 
 
Marcy Li Wong Architects
Marcy Wong, President
Berkeley, California
 
NOMINATING AGENCY: Forest Service
   
 
USDA 2003 SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
 
Carolyn Williams
Agricultural Research Services
College Station, Texas
 
   
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE, POUTRY AND
THE LIVESTOCK AND SEED
COMMODITY PROCUREMENT BRANCHES
Agricultural Marketing Service
Washington, DC
 
Renee Collier                  Ondray James                Richard Sweet
Henrietta Cooke              Richard Lawson              Michelle Warren
Rechell Crump                Felicitas Lofton               Stephanie Wells
Velerie Dinkel                 Reedema Rock               Joyce Valentine
                                                                          Orphas Somervill
USDA AGENCY SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS
 
Kansas City Commodity Office
Small Business Outreach Team
Farm Service Agency
Kansas City, Missouri
 
Timothy Hoff, Grant Dekker, Alan Flesh
Forest Service, Washington, DC
 
 
USDA 2003 JAVITS-WAGNER-O’DAY
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
 
Carol Rice
Kansas City Commodity Office
Farm Service Agency
Kansas City, Missouri
 
 
 
USDA AGENCY JAVITS-WAGNER-O’DAY
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER
 
Joel Bone
Forest Service
Roseburg, Oregon
 
 
 
USDA 2003 JAVITS-WAGNER-O’DAY
SMALL BUSINESS CNTRACTOR OF THE YEAR
 
BSW, INC.
John Pahut, Executive Director
Butte, Montana
 
NOMNATING AGENCY: Forest Service
 
 
 
USDA AGENCY JAVITS-WAGNER-O’DAY
SMALL BUSINESS AWARD WINNER
 
Arc-Diversified
Terri Lewis McRae, Executive Director
Cookeville, Tennessee
 
NOMINATING AGENCY:  Farm Service Agency
 
 
 
USDA OFFICE OF SMALL AND DISADVANTAGED
BUSINESS UTILIZATION
 
Major L. Clark, III
Assistant Chief Counsel for Procurement
Office of Advocacy
U.S. Small Business Administration
 
RAWLEIN G. SOBERANO,  Ph.D.
President
Asian American Business Roundtable

 

 

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