Debra Murray is the President and Managing Member of Blue Spring International, LLC. Ms. Murray has over 25 years of sales, consulting, and management experience in real estate, retail, and health and wellness. Ms. Murray’s primary focus in recent years has been in the restructuring of privately-owned companies after severe market impacts. As an active
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Bentley Hedges Travel has been a leader in the travel industry in Oklahoma for over 38 years and a Travel Leaders affiliate for 4 years. Angela “Angie” Hedges Hendricks began her career in the travel industry in 1972. Her parents, Bentley and Alice Hedges founded Bentley Hedges Travel in Oklahoma City, OK in 1970 in
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DR. TERRY NEESE is founder and CEO of the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW). She leads the organization to accomplish its mission via two programs, both domestic and international training for women business owners in the area of public policy and entrepreneurial education. Peace Through Business – educates and empowers women entrepreneurs in
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Sharron is Director of the Business Development Center-North, at the Business and Industry Services Division for Metro Technology Centers. She has been with Metro Tech for over nine years starting as a Consultant and Trainer before accepting the position of Training Coordinator then Director. Her responsibilities have included working with companies on all of their
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NAME: Homa Kabiri COUNTRY: Afghanistan BUSINESS: Kabiri & Partners Consulting Services (K&PC – business development) Homa, 21 years old, co-owns K&PC, a consulting firm in several provinces. After leaving Kabul shortly after she was born, Homa’s family moved to Mazar, the only city that had schools open to girls. Because the schools were full, Homa
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NAME: Parinaz Hissami COUNTRY: Afghanistan BUSINESS: MEDA (business development) Parinaz, 23 years old, works as a business development manager for MEDA, which works with 2,250 rural female farmers in Afghanistan. While the organization reaches over 2,000 women directly, it reaches 10,000 family members indirectly. In addition to providing farming activities, MEDA helps these women turn
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NAME: Masouma Abdollahi COUNTRY: Afghanistan BUSINESS: ASAP Development of Afghans Family Organization (business training) Masouma, 26 years old, has just recently started up her business, which is aimed at empowering Afghan women in order to make a positive impact on Afghan society. She wants to help women believe in themselves again, and make them apart
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