February 9, 2011 — Karen Barbour, President of The Barbour Group, a Maryland-based surety brokerage, has been selected to join and hold the position of Co-Chair on Maryland's Governor's Commission on Small Business. She has served as vice chair of the board of the Minority Building Industry Association and on the boards of the American Subcontractors Association of Baltimore and the Washington Building Congress. She has initiated, authored and driven landmark legislation in Maryland and on Capitol Hill to develop an amendment to The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to improve the Small Business Administration’s ability to provide contractor bond guarantees. This legislation has enabled small business, woman-owned, veteran-owned and minority firms more success in capturing bonding capacity. The Barbour Group, LLC is a three-time recipient of Maryland’s TOP 100 Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) award and recently received the distinguished Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Certification for Women Business Enterprises (WBE), becoming the only surety bond focused agency in the Mid-Atlantic region to be recognized with this gold standard and identified as the agency of choice. The Governor's Commission on Small Business is a 26 member Commission, made up of leaders of Maryland based small businesses, the Senate President and the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of Business and Economic Development, the Secretary of Housing and Community Development, the Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, the Secretary of General Services and the Secretary of the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs.
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