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SBA CT 2008 Award Winners
The U.S. Small Business Administration has selected Paula M. Pierce as the 2008 Home-Based Business Champion Award Winner and Matt Berky as the Young Entrepreneur Award Winner for Connecticut and the New England Region. Winners in the Home-Based Business category have experienced the rewards and difficulties of running a home-based business and have volunteered time and energy to improve conditions while working to enhance the home-based business climate. The Young Entrepreneur Award goes to an individual who is under the age of 30 and owns and operates a small business with a three-year track record with success as measured by sales and profits.
An award celebration for the SBA 2008 award recipients will be held Tuesday, May 20, 2008. for more information contact Hugh Curley at (860) 240-4650. For information on SBA programs and services visit www.sba.gov or call (860) 240-4700.
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Matt Berky
Matt Berky is an award-winning composer and production engineer experienced working with voice-over artists and musicians. Matt was classically trained on violin beginning at the age of six and studied at The University of Hartford as a teenager. Then picking up the guitar, Matt turned to Jazz and studied Jazz theory and improvisation at Plymouth State University in NH. Acclaimed for his body of work, he was honored with the composition award by the University in 2001.
Matt has been honored by the Silver Microphone Awards and the prestigious Telly Awards for his production technique and music composition. His music can be heard on corporate videos, TV commercials, medical animations, films & documentaries all around the world |
Paula M. Pierce
Paula Pierce runs two profitable businesses out of her home in Windsor, CT: PaulaWalla Imports, an online gift shop, which recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary and Hosting Connecticut LLC, a website development company, which is currently celebrating its 5 year anniversary.
As an online retailer she is able to assist her web site development clients in navigating the online world using her online experience, a rarity among web site developers. Hosting Connecticut, LLC is a soup-to-nuts website development and design company.
Pierce has recently been elected President of the Windsor Chamber of Commerce and has served on the board since 2004. She has also served on a number of Chamber committees, such as the Annual Benefit Auction, White Lights, Revolutionary Windsor, Technology and Tourism.
Pierce is a Notary Public, the volunteer E-newsletter Facilitator for MDA 31and is the volunteer moderator of Windsor Freecycle, a grass roots group of over 1000 Windsor people keeping good, usable items out of the landfill. |
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