SCORE/SBA Small Business Awards Event
Hosted by
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Site Registration: 8:30AM-9AM; 11AM-11:30AM
Workshops: 9AM to 11AM
Expo: 9:00AM to 11:30AM
Luncheon/Awards Ceremony:11:30AM to 1:30PM
Westin Galleria,
5060 West Alabama
Houston, TX 77056
Beth Shapiro
beth.shapiro@scorevolunteer.org
713-487-6565
Financial Services Champion
Richard Gianni
LiftFund
Veterans Business Champion
Kevin B. Doffing
Sam's Safety Equipment
Women in Business Champion
Nancy Opoku Mensah
Triumphant Women Inc.
Home-Based Business Champion
Jasmin Augustin
LegalShield Independent Associate
Minority SB Champion of Year
Estella Gonzalez
Baker Ripley
Master of Ceremonies: Bob Charlet became the publisher of the Houston Business Journal in 2015 where he joined a veteran team of professionals who have distinguished the HBJ as one of the leading business journals in the country.
Charlet joined the Pacific Business News, a sister publication, in 2009 as advertising director and was promoted to publisher three years later. Prior to PBN, he was North American group sales manager at Canon Communications, overseeing sales and marketing for a group of B2B media properties. He is a graduate of Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Winners
Small Business Person of Year - Christi Jean Bond
Independence Coffee Co.'s mission is to create a passionate community of coffee and tea enthusiasts by providing the highest quality hand-roasted and packaged 'world' coffees and hand-blended tea products (on time) to our customers while honoring traditional 'old school' roasting and blending methods that pay respect to coffee's rich history...while of course, having a blast doing it.
You'll still see Christi and I 'hand-delivering' our coffees and teas to grocery markets, convenience stores, offices and other family-owned establishments. It's just what we do. If you see us stocking shelves, feel free to say hello! Ragan Bond-Roaster
8(a) Graduate of Year - Denise S. Navarro
After earning a bachelor of arts in computer information systems and a master of business administration (MBA), both from the University of Houston – Clear Lake, Navarro dedicated herself to a career supporting the federal government and commercial industries, before launching Logical Innovations and its majority owned/managed joint ventures. Logical Innovations, Inc. provides, to the federal government and the commercial sector, a complete line of services to complement and enhance your existing business and new business pursuits. Our services include, Program / Project Management, Information Technology Support, Training Design/Development/Delivery, Performance Improvement Initiatives, and more.
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Family-Owned Business of Year - Janice & Robert Jucker
Beginning in Europe, nearly 200 years ago, Three Brothers Bakery has become a Houston institution, most well known for their traditional Jewish breads, cookies, pies, cupcakes, custom cakes, and more!
JaniceJucker knows all about the domestic arts.The San Antonio native's career ranges from lobby manager and hospitality expert at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York to the manager of a contract sewing factory in Houston.And now, she's the president of Three Brothers Bakery, the multigenerational family business she married into that still makes its challah and rye breads from handed-down recipes more than 200 years old.
Three Brothers Bakery owner Bobby Jucker was named one of the top bakers in the country in 2016.