Marisa Smith Appointed to Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) Executive Advisory Board
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Women Impacting Public Policy
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2010 —Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation’s largest nonpartisan public policy organization that advocates on behalf of women in business, announces its new Executive Advisory Board, the body of senior members who represent the WIPP membership at large to the Board of Directors. Members of the Board will serve as the voice for over half a million women in business and inform the strategic design and direction of the organization.
Marisa Smith, President of The Whole Brain Group, LLC in Ann Arbor, Michigan was appointed to the Executive Advisory Board this year and will serve as Co-Chair of the Communications Council. Smith recently served as Co-Leader of WIPP’s Michigan Instant Impact Team, and her company obtained federal HUBZone certification in 2010. Her company currently supplies its AccreditStation software to a number of VA hospitals and federal research facilities to streamline the accreditation of their human research protection programs.
Susan Solovic, Owner of Susan Solovic Media and a member of the WIPP Board of Directors, serves as Chair of the Advisory Council and Ann Blackburn, Owner of Blackburn Advisory Services, also a member of the WIPP Board of Directors, serves as Vice Chair of the Advisory Council. Joining them to guide this Board are Francine Manilow, CEO of Manilow Suites, serving as Vice President, Jennifer Bisceglie, President of Interos Solutions, Inc., serving as Chair of the Board of Directors, and Mary Schnack, CEO of Mary Schnack Media Services, Inc, serving as Secretary. The body of the Board is comprised of 44 members who have distinguished themselves as leaders in business and advocates for the women business community as a whole, including Smith.
WIPP uniquely brings policy, education and resources to its members and advises Congress on core economic issues that affect women-owned small businesses. Since its inception in 2001, WIPP’s Government Relations team has guided members to testify before many Congressional committee hearings on critical economic issues. Most recently, WIPP was instrumental in designing its award-winning Give Me 5 educational program for the SBA’s Women Business Centers, to help them provide programming to increase access to federal contracts for women business owners substantially underrepresented in their industry.
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