The MBDA National MED Week Awards Program is designed to celebrate and recognize the outstanding achievements of minority entrepreneurs, as well as individuals and organizations that have demonstrated leadership and commitment in advancing global minority business enterprise. Minority Construction Firm of the Year Hal Hays Founder and Owner Hal Hays Construction, Inc. Riverside, CA Minority Export...

MBDA recognizes the role that minority entrepreneurs play in building the nation’s economy by honoring businesses that are making a significant contribution through the creation of jobs, products and services, in addition to supporting their local communities. The MBDA National MED Week Awards Program is designed to celebrate and recognize the outstanding achievements of minority entrepreneurs, as...

The U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) today announced the 2015 National Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week Award winners – 14 organizations, businesses, and individuals who demonstrate leadership and commitment in advancing the minority business community. For more than 30 years, MBDA has led the MED Week Celebration. This year, MBDA is honored to...

2013 Awardees Minority Construction Firm of the Year : Cherokee CRC, LLC Minority Construction Firm of the Year : Metcon, Inc. Minority Export Firm of the Year : Instant Data Technologies "Indatatech" Minority Manufacturing Firm of the Year : Bridgewater Interiors, LLC Minority Retail Energy Firm of the Year : Liberty Power Corporation, LLC Access to Capital Award : United Bank of El Paso Del...

Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award Marie C. Johns, Founder L&L Consulting, LLC Ms. Marie C. Johns, the founder and President of L&L Consulting LLC, has been a leader in business, community and government service for more than 30 years. From 2010 through June 2013, Ms. Johns was the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). In 2011, as a result of her initiatives, the SBA...

Minority Export Firm of the Year D.W. Morgan Company, Inc. David Morgan, Founder & CEO Pleasanton, CA D. W. Morgan Company, Inc. (DWM) invests in its own infrastructure in key global manufacturing locations. The company has been growing steadily for more than two decades, with revenue gains of 25 percent or more for each of the last five years and some annualized gains exceeding 100 percent. Today...

Abe Venable Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement The Honorable Silvestre Reyes, U.S. House of Representatives (TX-16) Congressman Silvestre Reyes represents the people of El Paso, Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since first serving in the Army in 1966, he has dedicated four decades of his life to public service. Silvestre Reyes was born and raised in Canutillo, Texas and he is the...

Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award - Ronald Davenport, Sr. Businessman and lawyer Ronald Davenport, Sr. was born in Philadelphia on May 21, 1936. After earning his B.S. degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1958, Davenport went to law school. Earning his LL.B. degree from Temple University in 1962, he then went to Yale Law School for his LL.M. in 1963. Davenport started his...