Panel Session Scheduled For Matchmaking Event June 7
NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Business Matchmaking event, scheduled for June 7 in Franklin, will offer a morning panel session, Insights into Purchasing: the Buyer’s Perspective, at 9 a.m. to provide an inside look at procurement in large public ad, in Franklin.
Panelists include:
- Almetta Bonds, supplier diversity coordinator, Nashville Electric Service
- Shannon Happel, strategic sourcing specialist, CIGNA Government Services
- Lloyd Hinkle, valley spend/small business, ADVATECH
- Ray Register, director of contracts administration, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Michael Carter, president and CEO of Athena of Nashville Inc. and chair of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council, will moderate the panel discussion.
Hosted by the Williamson County-Franklin Chamber of Commerce, the event provides small businesses or sellers 15-minute, one-on-one business appointments scheduled with procurement representatives or buyers from large corporations and government entities that have actual contract opportunities.
The seller registration fee is $35 and the late registration fee, which begins on May 29, is $50. There is no fee for buyers to participate. To date, there are 32 buyers registered for the event, including:
- ADVATECH
- Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee
- American Ordnance
- AMEC Earth and Environment
- Austin Peay State University
- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
- CIGNA Government Services
- City of Clarksville
- City of Franklin
- Delek US Holdings, Inc* (MAPCO)
- Metropolitan Airport Authority
- Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Nashville Electric Service
- State of Tennessee - Commerce and Insurance
- State of Tennessee - ECD
- State of Tennessee- Environment & Conservation
- State of Tennessee- General Services
- State of Tennessee- Military
- State of Tennessee- Veterans Affairs
- Tennessee Air National Guard
- Tennessee Education Lottery
- Tennessee Technological University
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Nashville District
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (AMS COTTON)
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs
- U.S. General Services
- Williamson County Government
- Williamson Medical Center
- West Tennessee State Penitentiary
Since 2006, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development has hosted five Business Matchmaking events in the Tri-Cities, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Jackson, where over 2,815 one-on-one business appointments were held between 703 small businesses and 228 procurement officials.
Sponsored regionally by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority and the Williamson County Mayor’s Office, the Middle Tennessee Business Matchmaking host chamber is the Williamson County-Franklin Chamber of Commerce and the regional partner is the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Statewide sponsors of Tennessee Business Matchmaking are TVA, the UT Center for Industrial Services and the Tennessee Small Business Development Centers.
For additional program information and to register, or call (615) 741-2626.