Small Business Expert Award Nominees

An award-winning humorist, entrepreneur and former corporate marketer, Michael Katz translates his unique view of everyday life into useful, authentic and entertaining business insights. As Founder and…   Read More

Ian Smith is the founder of The Portfolio Partnership, a public speaker and an author of several books about entrepreneurship and business management, including "Fulfilling the Potential of Your Business."…   Read More

Fay is an award-winning author and Director of Achieve Marketing, an international full-serviced marketing consultancy offering training and advisory services to SMEs.   Read More

Since the founding of Lightspan Digital, Mana has focused exclusively on helping small businesses. Its the entire purpose of the business. Mana believes in clear and simple solutions. Best marketing is…   Read More

Pete Burgess is the owner of Tar Heel Basement Systems, leading experts in basement waterproofing, crawlspace encapsulation, radon mitigation, and foundation repair. Not only has he grown his small business…   Read More

Wendy Piersall forged the road for mom bloggers in the early 2000s. As a serial entrepreneur, she transformed her personal blog into a powerful blog network, selling it to private investors soon thereafter.…   Read More

Kellep Charles is the creator and Executive Editor of SecurityOrb.com (@SecurityOrb), an information security & privacy knowledge-based website with the mission to share and raise awareness of the motives,…   Read More

Clara Shih is an engineer, an author and a successful entrepreneur. She is the CEO/Founder of Hearsay Labs, a company that helps companies build relationships using social media. Clara's book, "The Facebook…   Read More

Angela Maiers is a consistently energized and recognized worldwide speaker greatly impacting leadership through not only the education field, but the international business community as well. Challenging…   Read More