Advantage Women: Targeting Government and Business Opportunities for Women

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR, BROADS CIRCLE FOUNDER, PRESENTS:

Premier Members Event

Advantage Women:
Targeting Government and Business
Opportunities for Women

Are you taking advantage of money and power opportunities
for women through federal and state contracts?

If you have not noticed, the government is a huge business partner:

• The U.S. federal government buys nearly $100 billion worth of goods and services from small businesses each year. However, for many women-owned small businesses (WOSBs), competing in this lucrative market has been tricky. In fact, in recent years, WOSBs received only 4 percent of the $400+ billion in government contracts awarded to small businesses.
  
  
• California State government is committed to Small Business and as a result all California State Agencies are under Executive Order to do 25% of their procurement and contracts with Small Businesses (SBs) and 3% with Disabled Veteran Owned Business Enterprises (DVBEs).

Come and learn about these opportunities to do more business for women!

WHEN:
Thursday, May 14, 2015
6:00-8:00pm

WHERE:
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
11355 W. Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Generously sponsored by:

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Panelists:

KRISTEN ALLISON
President and CEO
Burnham Benefits Insurance Services

DONNA J. DAVIS
Regional Administrator for Region IX
Small Business Administration (SBA)

S. NANCY WHANG
Partner - Government Practice
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Moderator & Event Producer:

TRACY WILLIAMS
President & CEO
Olmstead Williams Communications, Inc.

AGENDA:

6:00-6:30pm Check-in & Networking
6:30-7:30pm

Opening Remarks - Sponsor Comments
Panel Presentation

7:30-8:00pm Group Discussion and Closing Comments

REGISTRATION: This event is intended only for Broads Circle Premier Members and their guests. Members - there is a $35 no-show fee without minimum 24 hours notice.

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Panelists:

KRISTEN ALLISON
President and Chief Executive Officer, Burnham Benefits Insurance Services

Kristen Allison founded Burnham Benefits in 1995, leading its quest as one of the most respected and trusted employee benefits consulting firms. Her responsibilities include: continuing to attract exceptional and forward thinking talent with a passion for clients and professionalism; strategic development, policy and industry awareness, team collaboration and professional development; expanding the office footprint to meet the needs of their clients and the market; and maintaining independence as a privately held, key employee equity-based company.

Notable Quality Achievement in the Benefits Industry: Largest women-owned employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm in the western region; "#1 Best Place to Work," Business Insurance; "#1 Best Place to Work," Orange County Business Journal, for three consecutive years; Chairperson for Insuring the Children; Board Member for Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation; Board Member for Cal State Fullerton's Center for Insurance Studies.

DONNA J. DAVIS
Regional Administrator for Region IX, SBA

Donna Davis recently joined the SBA as Regional Administrator for Region IX, which encompasses Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, and Nevada. Davis has over three decades of experience in working with small businesses and corporations, as well as public service with governments at the city, state and federal levels.

She served most recently as the President and CEO of DIR Group, Inc., a business and advocacy consulting firm. Before that, she was the CEO of the Arizona Small Business Association. Davis also served as President, CEO and Founder of a portfolio of companies with involvement in domestic and global event management and an international speakers’ bureau. Earlier in her career, she was a Park Ranger at Grand Canyon National Park.

Davis has served on the boards of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce-AZ, the National Small Business Association, Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, National Association of Women Business Owners, and Women Impacting Public Policy and is a Leadership America inductee. She is a graduate of Northern Arizona University and completed a Harvard Business School Executive Program.

S. NANCY WHANG
Partner - Government practice, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

S. Nancy Whang is a partner in the government practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. Her practice focuses on the area of law where the government and the private sector intersect, including government contracts, administrative and regulatory issues affecting the environmental and energy sectors, and administrative hearings and writs. Ms. Whang’s clients include those in both the private sector and government.

Ms. Whang has extensive experience providing counsel on a broad range of state and local government contract issues, including bid preparation, contract negotiations, bid protests, government contract claims, and administrative hearings and writs. She successfully defended the award of California’s highest-valued state services contract in the state’s history. She also advises clients on compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements related to all aspects of government contracts and has worked on a number of school district technology and procurement issues, including issues concerning federal E-rate funding for school technology installations.

Ms. Whang has worked on proceedings involving direct access, utility rate applications, approvals for certificates of public convenience and necessity on behalf of clients, including municipal, commercial and retail entities. She has significant experience representing clients on a range of litigation matters, with a focus on administrative writs and petitions.

Ms. Whang counsels public and private employers, safety directors, and risk managers on matters related to federal and state occupational safety and health requirements, including the development and assessment of safety programs for regulatory compliance. Ms. Whang successfully appeared before the California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board to appeal citations issued by California OSHA citations. She advises federal and state employers concerning issues related to crisis management, including preparation, regulatory compliance and messaging after critical, high-profile events.

Prior to Manatt, Ms. Whang worked as an Immigrants’ Rights Project law clerk for the Public Counsel of Los Angeles and served on Congresswoman Jane Harman’s District and Washington, D.C., staff. Ms. Whang earned her J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law and B.A. from Smith College, Mass.

Moderator & Event Producer:

TRACY WILLIAMS
President & CEO, Olmstead Williams Communications, Inc.

Tracy is a leading expert in business-to-business communication with 25 years of public relations and crisis communications experience. She works with national and international print, broadcast and Internet media to secure top-tier placements that help clients meet their business objectives. Her firm is integrally involved in expanding clients’ business development networks through speaking engagements, marketing communications support and other tailored strategies. The firm focuses on technology and life science industries and the financial and professional service firms which support them. Clients include Ernst & Young, FlexEnergy, Whittier Trust Company, The Alfred E. Mann Foundation, Language Line Services and a number of national law firms.

Tracy currently serves on the boards of Town Hall Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, The California Counsel on Economic Education and Broads Circle. She resides in Pacific Palisades with her husband, writer Christian Williams, and their two children Drake and Christian.