Waymon Guinn serves as the Executive Director of the National Capital Area Minority Business Opportunity Center (MBOC). He is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the MBOC where he directs and supervises the activities of the members of the professional staff.

Mr. Guinn has over 30 years of business management experience in government contracting and small/minority business development. This experience encompasses leading small and mid-sized businesses in the full cycle of business development and management. He has served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President/Owner of government contracting firms. Mr. Guinn also has been the founder of five small businesses. Earlier in his career he served as Director of Business Services for the Black Economic Union (BEU) of Kansas City, Missouri. In this position he supervised a five person staff and provided assistance to local businessmen in the development of various types of business ventures. Assistance was provided in acquiring development and working capital loans and development of marketing plans and financial/accounting systems. Mr. Guinn was also responsible for preparing financial applications and business plans for submission to funding sources.

His education includes an MBA Degree from the University Of Massachusetts Graduate School Of Business, and a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Relations from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Guinn has also pursued additional studies in government contracts, project management, financial management and small business development.

Shawnta Glover serves in the capacity of Executive Assistant to the Executive Director. She is tasked with the responsibility for coordinating all of the administrative activities of the MBOC. Such activities include managing and maintaining the organization's performance database and client in-take processes; coordinating the meetings and activities of the MBOC's Advisory Committee and strategic partnerships; conducting client follow-up, and insuring timely and accurate responses to all client and general public information requests.

Ms. Glover has a background tailor-made for the MBOC. She has strong computer skills and is very familiar with database software and numerous other software applications. She has been involved in several conference planning and workshop coordination activities.

She has three degrees from Southeastern University where she excelled as a student. Her studies have included information technology (A.S.), public administration (B.A.), and business management (MBA).

Rae Martel serves as the MBOC's Associate Director for Business Development. Ms. Martel will be responsible for working with government and private sector buyers to match them with qualified MBEs.

Ms. Martel's background includes twenty-seven years of Federal service with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) where she served in various capacities supporting the agency's various acquisition and small business assistance programs. Fifteen of those years were in the capacity of a Contracting Officer at the NASA Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas. Her duties included managing prime and subcontracting programs for small businesses. The remaining twelve years were spent at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In Washington, she served as Senior Policy Manager for the Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Office. In that capacity, she worked to ensure that small, women-owned, and small disadvantaged businesses were provided with opportunities to perform on NASA requirements as prime contractors and subcontractors.

Ms. Martel has a wealth of knowledge about mentor/protégé programs. While at NASA, she was also responsible for developing the agency's mentor/protégé program and later served as Program Manager for the particular NASA program initiative. Since retiring from Federal service, she has assisted with efforts to develop several mentor/protégé initiatives, including ones underway at the US Department of Labor and the US Department of Energy. She has worked with hundreds of small, disadvantaged, minority, women, and veteran-owned enterprises over the years and is considered an expert on many of the small business assistance initiatives undertaken by the Federal government.

Ms. Martel received her Bachelor's Degree from Texas Southern University and her Master's Degrees from Oklahoma State University.

William A. Fisher operates in a dual role with the MBOC. He is currently Senior Vice President with Performance-based Solutions, Inc. (PbSi), which operates the MBOC for MBDA. Mr. Fisher coordinates procurement assistance services for MBOC clients, serves as an instructor/facilitator for the education and training workshops, and works with selected clients to develop teaming strategies and strengthen proposal submissions.

Prior to joining PbSi in 2002, Mr. Fisher served as a senior manager at the U.S. Small Business Administration where, before his retirement in 2001, he served as associate deputy administrator for government contracting and business development. In that capacity, he was responsible for SBA’s national small business procurement assistance programs for small government contractors, including the 8(a) program, the Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) Certification Program, the HUB-Zone program, the Women’s Business Enterprise Program, Procurement Policy and the Innovation and Research Program. His Federal service career covered a period of over twenty-seven years. He is a graduate of Howard University.