KEN WILLIAMS

Ken is the Center’s consultant on credit, finance and business planning. He has eighteen years’ experience in commercial banking and five years’ experience in community development lending. For the past four years he has been an independent management consultant to small businesses and an analyst for economic development agencies attempting to get money into the hands of entrepreneurs.

“The most valuable line on my resume is the one involving failure,” Ken says. “My wife and I launched a business without doing detailed planning and without committing adequate capital. We struggled for two years, didn’t make a dime and died in the marketplace for all the world to see. I learned volumes of wisdom from that experience and I love sharing those volumes with our clients.”

VALERIE CAMARDA

Valerie is the owner of Marketing Sense, a marketing consulting firm. With over 22 years of varied marketing experience, she has both consumer products and professional services marketing experience. She has worked with a variety of businesses and non-profits. She develops marketing plans, public relations and advertising campaigns and a wide variety of marketing collateral for her clients. She is also a certified trainer in marketing for entrepreneurial businesses. For the last three years, she has served as a marketing consultant for the Enterprise Center and helped its clients define and reach out to their target markets.

JAMES E. MARTIN

James has worked with all size firms in the private and public sectors. He particularly enjoys working with small and medium size firms because they are extensions of the owners and give him the greatest opportunity to work with unique individuals and their interesting ventures. He has provided administrative support and financial and business planning for more than 32 years and has been a consultant with the Enterprise Center for more than 5 years.