While in New York City for President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations in September, Cabinet Secretary Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), visited the MVP Accelerator at the NYIT School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
The visit was coordinated in partnership with Vanguarde Consulting Group, a venture-in-residence firm at the School of Management’s small business incubator at the Manhattan campus. Vanguarde, a leading entrepreneurship training company, helps support activities at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies by mentoring students, offering internships, and working with faculty members. Vanguarde’s work on issues of diversity and inclusion in emerging tech sectors and the launch of the MVP Accelerator has been recognized by the SBA in 2015 as a Regional Growth Accelerator for its support of the economic development and startup activities across the United States.
