Front Row From L-R

• Dr. Yie-Hwa Chang — Mediomics, LLC (Immigrant Owned Small Business of the Year)
• Darlene Davis — Davis Associates, CPA (8(a) Graduate Small Business of the Year)
• Lusnail Rondon Haberberger — LUZCO Technologies LLC (Start Up Small Business of the Year)
• Jacqui Ortmann — Ortmann Concrete, INC (Woman Owned Small Business of the Year)

Second Row From L-R

• Brian Rogers — Chairperson of Small Business Week Committee of Eastern Missouri
• Nancy Major —  I Can Too Learning Center  (Rural Small Business of the Year)
• Tameka Stigers — Locs of Glory (Minority Owned Small Business of the Year)
• Jeremy Buchheit — Synergy Medical, Inc. (Small Business of the Year)
• Bill Collier — Arch Engraving (Veteran Owned Small Business of the Year)
• Maureen E. Brinkley —  Small Business Administration - District Director 

Photograph Courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden 

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