TGR: June Biz Soiree at Radisson Lord Baltimore is a Success!
(BALTIMORE - June 23, 2009) - Nearly a hundred business professionals attended last night's June Biz Soiree at the Radisson Lord Baltimore Hotel presented by BMORENEWS and the HARAMBEE Dinner Club. The event was co-sponsored by the Minority Consumer Resource Directory and Rondy Griffin of Coleman & Associates. Such BMORENEWS business and political networking events stem back to 2002. Our speakers included Delegate Herman Taylor, Special Secretary Luwanda Jenkins, and Delegate Barbara Robinson. Other speakers included Dawn Jackson of the Women Business Owners of Prince George's County and CEO of Nudawn Marketing, Baltimore County MBE Director Damon Hughes, Joan Worthington of the Multinational Development of Women in Technology, Baltimore City Chamber President Charlie Owens, Greater Baltimore Black Chamber President Charles Johnson, and Baltimore City's David Scott.
Attendees included Baltimore City's MBE Director Carla Nelson, Marsha Jews of the Myers-Douglass Maritime Museum, Phil Allen of Bank of America, Jewel West of The Jewel Inc. and XSCAPE Hair Studio of Owings Mills, dEVNIX Data Managment CEO Alexis Coates, and Maryland "Dean of Business" Ray Haysbert.
The emcee for the two-hour event was Paul Taylor of the Small Business Resource Center of Baltimore.
Past events have attracted now-Gov. Martin O'Malley, then-candidate Robert Ehrlich, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, then-candidate Michael S. Steele, Congressman Elijah Cummings, now-Senator Ben Cardin, Special Secretary Sharon Pinder, internationally-renown Attorney-extraordinaire Billy Murphy, Afro Publisher Jake Oliver, former MD DNC Chair Michael Cryor, Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, now-Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, Associated Black Charities President and CEO Diane Bell-McKoy, Maryland House of Delegates' Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne Jones, now-Senator Cathy Pugh, Sen. Verna L. Jones, former Assistant Secretary for Administration at the United States Department of Agriculture and past Secretary of the Maryland Department of General Services Boyd Rutherford, Secretary Meridian Management Group CEO Stanley Tucker.
The purpose is simple: To provide attendees access to business and political leaders.
Special thanks to all who made last night's event a success.
Sparing the diatribe, I'll simply say that last night's Soiree was something truly special. I will also say that it is indicative of what can happen when we work together.
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