NCMA DC is honored to welcome Bibi Hidalgo, the Associate Administrator for Government Contracting & Business Development of the Small Business Administration (SBA) as the speaker for our meeting on Wednesday, December 15.
IMPORTANT NOTE: There was recently a fire at the Arts Club of Washington, resulting in an extended closure. We have moved the meeting online and made it complimentary.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Bibi Hidalgo oversees and reviews procurement-related policies for small business contractors hoping to work with the Federal Government, including Woman-owned, Veteran-owned, Socially Disadvantaged, HUBZone, and 8(a) Minority Business Development Program small businesses. Before being named the Associate Administrator, she was the SBA Government Contracting Policy Lead for the Biden-Harris Transition Team, developing policies that President Biden could execute in the first 100 days, with an emphasis on underserved communities.
In 2014, Ms. Hidalgo and her brother co-founded Future Partners, LLC, which advised Fortune 500 corporate executives on procurement and minority business strategy, and created a model for how to facilitate significant opportunity for both. Prior to that she served in the White House, managing a government-wide initiative to position the federal government to meet the Congressional 23% small business goal out of a $400 billion contracting budget for the first time in a decade.
In addition to her experience, Ms. Hidalgo has a Master’s in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.