05/02/07 Roundtable

To read Senator Kerry's statement from this roundtable, please click here.

Event participants:

      Mr. James Ballentine
           Director, Economic Development, Office of Government Affairs, American Bankers Association
      Mr. Giovanni Coratolo
           Executive Director, Small Business Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
      Mr. Christopher Crawford
           Executive Director, National Association of Development Companies
      Mr. Michael Hager
           Associate Administrator, Office of Capital Access, U.S. Small Business Administration
      Mr. Kevin Kelly
           Managing Director for Policy and Advocacy, Association for Enterprise Opportunity
      Mr. Christopher G. Kwiatkowski
           Senior VP and Manager of SBA Lending for Popular Small Business Capital, Popular, Inc.
      Mr. Morris Little
           Chairman, National Black Chamber of Commerce
      Mr. Todd McCracken
           President, National Small Business Association
      Mr. Paul Merski
           Chief Economist and Director of Federal Tax Policy, Independent Community Bankers of America
      Mr. James Morrison
           President, Small Business Exporters Association
      Mr. Ronald Phillips
           President, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
      Ms. Sally Robertson
           President, Business Finance Group
      Mr. C. Edward "Tee" Rowe, III
           Associate Administrator, Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs, SBA
      Mr. Chris Sikes
           Executive Director, Western Massachusetts Enterprise Fund, Inc.
      Ms. Ann Sullivan
           Federal Legislative Consultant, Women Impacting Public Policy
      Ms. Joan Wasser Gish
           Principal, Policy Progress
      Mr. Dennis West
           President, Northern Initiatives
      Mr. Anthony Wilkinson
           President and CEO, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc.
      Mr. Greg Walker Wilson
           Executive Director, Mountain Bizworks