Thursday, November 12, 2009
Conference
8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Networking Reception
4:30 to 6:30 pm
National Conference Center
18980 Upper Belmont Place
Lansdowne, VA 20176
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Speaker Bio
Marissa Levin
CEO, Information Experts
As Founder and CEO of Information Experts, Marissa Levin leads IE's efforts to create technology-based integrated communications solutions, human capital strategies, and learning strategies for government agencies and for organizations across a wide range of vertical markets.
Information Experts, an 8(a) certified, award-winning consultancy founded in 1995, helps companies and agencies align their business & human capital strategies, and fulfill their missions through the development of integrated communications and learning products.
Marissa has led the organization's entry into the federal market to achieve a sizeable presence in more than 14 agencies spanning all facets of government (civilian, defense, and intelligence), the capture of multiple GSA schedules, the award of the highly competitive OPM TMA Human Capital and Training Contracts, and many others. Ms. Levin's key objective is to ensure customer and employee satisfaction and generate profitability for the company. Further, Marissa serves as lead communications and human capital strategist for numerous clients.
Through her knowledge of instructional design, organizational development, management consulting, integrated communications, and other areas critical to business and organizational success, Ms. Levin has become known throughout the regional business community as a leader and visionary.
Ms. Levin was recently named as a 2008 BRAVO Award winner by SmartCEO Magazine, which honors the region's 25 most influential women CEOs, and has been named as a SmartCEO Smart 100 participant, which recognizes the top 100 CEOs in the region. She was also named as one of Washington's Top 100 Technology Titans for 2009 by Washingtonian Magazine. She was a finalist for the 2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and for the 2004 Women in Technology Entrepreneur Leadership Award, and was also named as a finalist for the national Stevie Awards in three categories: Best Entrepreneur - Service Businesses; Employer of the Year; and Women Helping Women.
Marissa was selected as one of greater Washington's "Women Who Mean Business" by the Washington Business Journal, which honors the region's "most influential and powerful" women executives. In addition, she was nominated for the Women President's Organization (WPEO) Outstanding Women's Business Advocate Award.
She frequently speaks at industry events and universities on her experiences as a successful woman business owner and communications strategist who has financed 100% of her organization through earnings.
Ms. Levin has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Business Journal, Working Mother Magazine, Washington Woman Magazine, and on CBS as a successful woman business owner and working mother. She was most recently feature in a Washington Post segment as an "Entrepreneur with Compassion."
Prior to founding Information Experts, Ms. Levin spent several years in the field of instructional design and organizational development. Ms. Levin holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, and a Master of Arts Degree in Human Resources Development and Instructional Design.