| For Immediate Release Boardroom Bound welcomes Cheryl Mayberry McKissack to our Board of Directors
Chicago Entrepreneur Appointed to Boardroom Bound® Board June 30, 2005, Washington, D.C. Boardroom Bound®, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that helps companies find pre-qualified candidates for corporate board services elected Cheryl Mayberry McKissack to its governance board. “Cheryl brings a wealth of experience both on the entrepreneurial as well as the corporate side of the coin and she is a known entity in the world of corporate board governance, ” says Linda Bolliger, Boardroom Bound’s Founder and CEO. McKissack is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Nia Enterprises, LLC - a Chicago based database, systems integration and marketing services firm founded in January 2000. company provides opt-in permission based marketing data solutions related to the growing and specialized market of African American Women and their families. This features the firm’s proprietary product offering called “Simple Sampling”, a research-sampling tool designed for the ethnic sampling market. This consumer product-testing program has been featured as a monthly offering on AOL’s Black Focus. Both the firm and its founder have received recognition, which includes the top 25 Chicago Women in technology award and one of the 25 companies selected to present at the 2001 Springboard venture forum. Nia Enterprises was also named one of Chicago’s Top 50 emerging technology companies for 2001. Ms. Mayberry McKissack has received the 2003 Marketing Opportunities in Business and Entertainment (MOBE) Influencers and Innovators of the Internet and Technology Award. MOBE and Earthlink recently selected the company’s on-line platform, www.niaonline.com as one of the 100 best web sites for African Americans. Ms. Mayberry McKissack has also spoken at a variety of universities and business conferences including: Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management BMA, Microsoft, Tavis Smiley’s Blacks in Technology and the Fulbright Scholars Institute. Prior to founding Nia Enterprises, McKissack enjoyed a 23-year career in technology holding positions such as World-Wide Senior Vice President and General Manager for Open Port Technology. She was also a founding member of the Network Systems Division and Vice President for the America’s for 3Com, (formerly U.S. Robotics). McKissack started her technology career with the IBM Corporation where she enjoyed a 14-year career in sales, marketing and management positions. McKissack,
a native of Seattle, Washington, received her B.S. from Seattle
University completing the four-year program in 2.5 years and her
MBA from Northwestern’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management.
Ms. Mayberry was the former Chairperson and current board member
of the Information Technology Resource Center, board member and
sponsor for the LINK Unlimited organization and a member of the
Economic Club of Chicago. She currently sits on the corporate
boards of the Deluxe Corporation (MN) and Lou
Holland Growth Fund (Holland Capital Management) Chicago, IL, February 28, 2005 – The Lou Holland Growth Fund has named JoAnn Lilek and Carla Carstens to its Board of Directors. Lilek is Chief Financial Officer of DSC Logistics, Inc., a leading third-party logistics company with a nationwide network and one of the largest woman-owned businesses in Chicago. Carstens is president of Carstens Associates, a management consulting firm that helps client companies to improve operating processes, strategic development, alignment of performance metrics and profitability. Phyllis Hill Slater, Boardroom Bound® Vice Chair To Be Honored Long Island, NY, April 4, 2005 - The Long Island Small Business Assistance Corporation (LISBAC) will be receiving the Arthur Goodman Award, from the National Association of Development Companies. NADCO is the national trade association of SBA 504 certified development companies. This is an annual award given by NADCO to an organization or entity that has encouraged diversity in business and/or the workplace. LISBAC, an affiliate of Long Island Development Corporation (LIDC)- an SBA 504 CDC since 1980, is receiving the award in recognition of its unique program that assists women business owners. It is the first and still the only community development financial institution ever certified in the nation by US Treasury to assist owners. The award recognizes the uniqueness of the program, its importance in helping Women Business Enterprises (WBEs) -the fastest growing segment of the US economy- and its success in providing not just loans but featuring a holistic approach, which includes seminars, pro bono accounting assistance and free counseling and mentoring. Further, the award is being given to recognize the unique partnership created by LIDC between itself, LISBAC, New York State, Citibank and others to help WBEs. Citibank provides the funding for micro loans to WBE's. NYS provides funding for seminars for the WBE's. LIDC provides loan underwriting and support for the program through LISBAC. A major accounting firm provides pro bono assistance. And the entire program is conducted in concert with the three largest women business groups on Long Island. The award will be presented to LISBAC officials Phyllis Hill Slater, Board Chair, Roslyn Goldmacher, President along with the LISBAC’s primary funder, Citibank, as represented by Douglas Asofsky, Sr. VP Citibank. The awards will be presented at NADCO's Annual Meeting in May in Las Vegas. This marks the 25th year of the 504 industry. Phyllis also serves as Treasurer of LIDC; Roslyn serves as President and CEO and Citibank’s Douglas Asofsky serves as Chairman. The Honorees were selected after a competitive process where some 100 award nominations /applications were submitted and reviewed by an independent judging committee of NADCO CDC members and others.
June 21, 2004, Washington, D.C. Boardroom Bound®, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that helps companies find pre-qualified candidates for corporate board services elected Wayne Ward Ford to its governance board. “We are very fortunate to have Wayne join us since he plays an important role in the political arena and has a background quite different from the majority of those currently in board service,” says Linda Bolliger, Boardroom Bound’s Founder and CEO. Ford was in the eighth grade when his teacher asked his class to write their obituaries. “How would they like to be remembered,” she asked. Ford who lived in a rough area of Washington, D.C., wrote that he would make his mark in the Mid-west. He would be active in politics and in charge of a community center. Today, Ford is living the dream he had as a boy: He’s the only black member of the Iowa State Legislature and the founder and executive director of Urban Dreams, a nonprofit community program empowering the urban poor. Along with Mary Campos, a prominent member of the Des Moines Latino community, Ford founded the Brown and Black Forum in 1984 and this year their group hosted Iowa’s Brown and Black Presidential Forum, which was broadcast by MSNBC January 11th. Ford’s dream was re-visited by Dan Rather in his 2001 book entitled: The American Dream: Stories From the Heart of Our Nation. “As much of my dream as I’ve achieved, I had never realized that corporate board service could be part of it until I met the Boardroom Bound people,” Ford says. “So, I am very pleased to have this opportunity to help diversify the boardroom,” he adds. |
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