NAWBO

How long have you been a NAWBO SEVA Corporate Partner? 2001

Your NAWBO SEVA Committee and Board Positions: Just about all of them – and President twice!

Thank you for being an active partner and advocate for NAWBO SEVA. Can you tell our readers why you are so passionate about the organization? I found NAWBO while looking for like-minded women … women entrepreneurs, to exchange ideas with. It turned out to be so much more than that for me. I’ve made some of my best friends through NAWBO and have called upon many for advice. It’s a great organization for the growing sector of women business owners.

Based on your experience, what do you see as the most important thing a member or corporate partner can do to grow with NAWBO SEVA? Get involved!!! You will get out of it as much as you put into it.

Can you describe the key business services and solutions you provide? We provide custom eBusiness solutions through web, database and software development

In a few sentences, what makes your services unique? Our core expertise is strategic development. Too often, businesses build web applications without a long-term strategy for success. We won’t do that. We either build to a pre-existing plan or utilize our analysts to create the plan.

Which city in Hampton Roads do you call home? Chesapeake (Hickory)

What do you like to do when you're not working? Not working??? I spend most of my free time with my boys (2 sons and husband) – they are my favorite people. When they get tired of me I like to garden and can fruits and veggies … cooking … collect animals and anything non-technical I can find to do!

The last really great book you read that you'd like to recommend to NAWBO SEVA members and partners? Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is not the last book I’ve read but it was a significant one. It is such a simple and powerful book and I thoroughly enjoyed it and bought about a dozen copies of it to give to girlfriends.

Someone you admire and why? My grandmother. She is 88 years old and is still so spry! She raised ten children, all of which went to Catholic school and are very bright and successful; she had an amazing marriage to my grandfather, who we lost 15 years ago; she delivered mail for the post office, while raising her children and gardening and sewing clothes and pinching pennies. She has so many wonderful stories about her life and has even been published in some books about living in the south during the depression. She is the most wholesome and dignified lady I know.