Ready and anxious, Kelly A. Hunt recently appointed District Director for the Pittsburgh District Office of the Small Business Administration is set and prepared to move forward.
“I want to build the entrepreneur culture and help businesses in this region grow and be successful,” Hunt said during her swearing in ceremony. Her responsibilities will include overseeing the delivery and leadership of the SBA’s financial and business development programs throughout 27 counties in western Pennsylvania.
With only two years remaining in President Obama’s administration and with the new administrator, Maria Contreras-Sweet’s pushing for the SBA to be smart, bold and assessable, while introducing Hunt; Natalia Olson-Urtecho shared the national plan for the local SBA office to follow.
“Being assessable is important as we continue to work closely with our partners and making sure we serve the underserved and non-traditional,” Olson-Urtecho, SBA’s mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator pointed out.
She also identified the local Marcellus Shale and natural gas industry as offering tremendous potential in the region and preparing and developing the capacity of small businesses to be exposed to exporting opportunities as focus points.
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