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“[My Business Counselor] gave me so much information. He answered every question I asked and every question I didn’t ask.”
Daniel Beech Wild Cultures Sourdough Bakery
“My SBDC Business Counselor helped me learn that there are so many more farmers’ markets and different opportunities in this area.”
Jennifer Campbell Taylor Flower Patch
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
THOUGHT LEADER
In 2023, Anthony (Tony) Cambas, Mississippi SBDC Statewide Manager of International Trade, received numerous invitations to events at the state, national, and international levels. He was a part of the US Department of State Technical Delegation to Mexico alongside the Mexico SBDC Network, participated in the USDA-FAS Scientific Exchange Fellows visit, and was a speaker at the Trade Facilitation Innovation Days. This event was organized by the World Economic Forum, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, and UNCTAD.
RISE CENTER SENDS FOUR COMPANIES
TO KANSAS CITY
The newly established RISE Center brought four Mississippi tech companies to participate in Encountering Innovation, a program offering opportunities for innovators, government tech scouts and manufacturing and technology companies to collaborate with each other for commercialization and contracting purposes via Private Tech Transfer Pitches and Matchmaking Sessions.
Pictured from left to right: Whitney Jackson, Business Counselor II; Chip Templeton, RISE Center Director; Jeff Freeman, Camgian VP of Government Business Development; Jill Dietz, Market Research Specialist; Barbara Bonner Stephens, Tech Commercialization Consultant.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI OUTREACH
Patrice Harris, Mississippi SBDC @ UM Center Director, visited the north Mississippi community throughout 2023.
Top: Patrice and Denise McElhaney at Denise’s Happy Hounds grand opening in Hernando.
Bottom: Patrice and Walt Starr, staff member for the Hernando District Office of Congressman Trent Kelly, at Horn Lake Chamber of Commerce Java Junction.
