Business Focused Breakfast

Speaker and Presenter Information

Our Keynote Speaker Alice Williams

Alice Williams leads and manages Department of Defense Office of Small Business Program’s workforce initiatives and socioeconomic programs. Prior to assuming her current position, she served as Director of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) OSBP. In this capacity, she was the principal advisor to the CECOM Commander (Major General), the Army Secretariat-level OSBP Senior Executive and the Small Business Administration (SBA) on all small business matters related to CECOM and a Command, Control, Communications, Computers Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) multi-billion-dollar acquisition program.

Our Featured Speaker Paul H. Jossey

Paul H. Jossey is an entrepreneur and principal attorney at Jossey PLLC. Before starting his own firm, Paul worked at boutique law firms in Atlanta, Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, DC. In the past two years, Paul’s practice has focused primarily on business capitalization, through the JOBS Act of 2012, including Reg CF, Reg A+, Reg D (506c), and Initial Coin Offerings and cryptocurrency. He has advised businesses throughout the country including Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Miami, and the Mid-Atlantic region. In addition to helping clients navigate crowdfunding SEC compliance, Paul runs the blog thecrowdfundinglawyers.com, which serves an information clearinghouse for legal and industry information about equity crowdfunding and the JOBS Act.

Our Contributing Speaker & a MTA Board Member Kim Harwell

As National Procurement Manager for GovPurchase, Kim Harwell’s job is to help GovPurchase fulfill its mission of providing common sense, user-friendly research tools, business training, coaching, consulting services, enjoyable and productive events, and B2B business development tools for government contractors and government officials, at a reasonable price. One of the primary ways we achieve this is by owning and providing the most comprehensive government contracting online data tool. GovPurchase is the largest databases on government contracting.

Expected Number of Attendees

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, DOD & Military, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID, National Guard Association, EEOC, Federal Government, FDA