During this webinar, join the Town of Vienna Economic Development Office and the Vienna Business Association as we discuss doing business with the Commonwealth with Chris Ley, business services manager, with the Virginia Department of Small Business & Supplier Diversity.
Chris will inform entrepreneurs and business owners about the benefits of working with Virginia's procurement agency and how to position your business to obtain contracts with the state. The discussion will include learning about the application process for SWaM certifcation (Small, Women and Minority-owned businesses) and how to become a registered vendor in the eVA system (Virginia's eProcurement Portal).
About Chris Ley
Chris has worked with small businesses since 2007 when she joined a small, women-owned marketing company, Asian Marketing Services, as their director of business development. She started two new successful small business training programs at Northern Virginia Community College: the SWaM program and the Entrepreneur Roadmap program. In the SWaM program, she helped 32 companies become SWaM certified. Those companies won more than $1.7million in new state and federal contracts. In the Entrepreneur Roadmap program, she helped 30 entrepreneurs start new businesses.
Chris received her undergraduate degree in accounting from University of Maryland, College Park and her master’s in international marketing from University of Maryland University College.
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