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	2008 Awards

2009 Small Business Award Nominees

Small Business Person of the Year

Category 1

Dr. Dana Law, Sankora Executive Solutions, Inc.
Laura Hinton, Hinton Financial Consultants
Ruwena Healy, Marketing 24/7, Inc.
Nolanda Bearden, NHB Group, LLC
Harold Coghlan, Magic Express Airlines, Inc.
Michael Nelson, Nelson Design Group
Lydia Wilbanks, Wilbanks Elam Marketing

Category 2

Bobby White, Reliance Financial Group
David Gibson, Zeekee Interactive
Joe and Scott Planson, Changing Spaces Moving, Inc.

Category 3

John Sutton, Entec Services, Inc.
Cindy Martin, AL.com
Shannon Riley, One Stop Environmental
Lisa Thompson, FlexDigital
Chris and Idie Hastings, Hot and Hot Fish Club
Sandy Syx, Doozer Software, Inc.
Tanveer Patel, CircleSource

Category 4

Dennis Williams, Church & Stagg

Small Business Advocate of the Year

George Williams, Enterprise Answers, Inc.
David Fleming, Main Street Birmingham
Keith Barfield, Barfield, Murphy, Shank and Smith PC
Richard Wallace, Organizational Success Management

Jesse J. Lewis, Jr. Community Service Award

Teresa Thorne, City Action Partnership
Ed Fields, Projects Unlimited
Warren Hawkins, Business Partners
Mark Jackson, Moreson Conferencing

Centennial Award

Don Logan, Birmingham Barons
Troy Haas, Brownell Travel
Grantland Rice, Cobbs, Allen & Hall

Non-Profit of the Year

Category 1

Rosemary Johnson, Alabama Dance Council
Kristina Scott, Catalyst for Birmingham
Wendy Jackson, Freshwater Land Trust
Aisha Holmes, YouthServe
Joy Myers, Birmingham Artwalk
Marilyn Norris, Assistance League of Birmingham
David Fleming, Main Street Birmingham, Inc.
Michele Jenkins-Utomi, Housing Fund of Central Alabama
Stephen Black, Impact Alabama

Category 2

Dan Kessler, Independent Living Resources of Greater Birmingham, Inc.
Mike Singer, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama
Scott Douglas, Greater Birmingham Ministries
Andrea Anderson, Community Health Charities
Rick Murray, Junior Achievement of Greater Birmingham

Category 3

Jacque Meyer, Greater Birmingham Humane Society
Kate Nielsen, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
Joan Wright, Childcare Resources

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Small Business Week is planned and executed by the Small Business Committee. For questions or concerns, please contact Patricia Mattison at (205) 241-8114.