Arlington , VA – The Washington Business Journal is pleased to announce the following honorees in its second Minority Business Leaders awards program:

• Wanda Alexander, Horizon Consulting, Inc.

• William Bouie, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group

• Herman E. Bulls, Bulls Advisory Group/Bulls Capital Partners/Jones Lang LaSalle

• Enrique Carrillo, Chevy Chase Bank

• Matthew Cutts, Patton Boggs LLP

• Ken Fang, Altum, Inc.

• Joseph Fergus, Communication Technologies, Inc.

• Maria Gomez, Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, Inc.

• Tracy Graves-Stevens, MSM Security Services, LLC

• Emily Greene, VIVA Creative

• Walter Hsu, HSU Development, Inc.

• Mark Ranger Jones, The Ranger Group

• Michelle Lee, STG International

• Muriel Maignan Wilkins, Isis Associates

• George Otchere, SAIC

• Emilio Pardo, AARP

• Chance Patterson, Sirius XM Radio

• Gregory Stephen Proctor, GS Proctor and Associates, Inc.

• Andy Shallal, Busboys and Poets

• Raj Sharma, Censeo Consulting Group

• Wesley Stith, Clark Construction Group, LLC

• Guy Timberlake, The American Small Business Coalition, LLC

• Paul Tran, Elucid Solutions

• Reginald Van Lee, Booz, Allen and Hamilton

The Minority Business Leader Awards honor the Washington area’s top minority business leaders and owners who exhibited outstanding performance for their companies within the last 12-18 months. The finalists will be profiled in a special supplement of the April 3rd edition of the Washington Business Journal.

The Washington Business Journal, along with presenting sponsor Holland & Knight and sponsor FedEx, will honor the winners at the Minority Business Leader Awards program, on Thursday, April 2, 2009, at the Mandarin Oriental, Washington , DC .  Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. with a luncheon and awards program to follow.  Registration information for the event is available at: 
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/event/5548

Questions concerning the event can be directed to Mike LaRosa at 703-258-0854 or mlarosa@bizjournals.com

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