Enterprising Women Names New Members To National Advisory Board

Monica Smiley, administrator and CEO of Enterprising Women annual (www.enterprisingwomen.com), has called Mary Ardapple Dierker, Nancy Freeman Balkcom, Elaine Buxton and Tanya Matthews as Enterprising Women National Advisory Board members.

Ardapple is the buyer of Apple’s Bakery Northside Market in Peoria, Ill. Inspired by her aboriginal establishment, O’Leary’s Restaurant, Ardapple accustomed Apple’s Bakery, Inc. in 1998 and auspiciously launched its aboriginal gluten-free kitchen in 2008. Ardapple holds a available of arts in Business Administration and Management from the University of Northern Colorado in Greely, Colo. She serves her association through captivation with Friends of Wildlife Prairie State Park, as a axle affiliate of the Peoria Community Foundation and the District 150 School Foundation, and as admiral of the Central Illinois National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Chapter.

Balkom is admiral of MySupplies, a Freeman Forms and Supplies Company based in Atlanta. Since acceptable admiral in 1986, Balkom has developed MySupplies into a multimillion dollar, full-line appointment articles sales organization, and has guided the aggregation through abounding industry challenges. Balkom serves on the axle of admiral for the Greater Women’s Business Council Committee and participates in several administration roles with the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. She aswell serves on the Voice Forum Committee, the GWBC Education Committee and the Mentor Protégé Committee, area she advisers added women business owners. Dedicated to giving aback to the community, Balkom instituted MySupplies’ Rewards for Charity program, which provides banking abutment to added than 15 bounded charities by altruistic a allotment of sales to these organizations.

Buxton is admiral of Confero, Inc., a civic chump acquaintance altitude close based in Cary, N.C., that offers chump account abstruseness arcade evaluations, chump casting abutment services, chump achievement research, and agent allurement and acceptance programs. Buxton was breath in the accumulation of the Mystery Shopping Providers Association which is now the better able barter affiliation committed to convalescent account above application bearding resources. She served on the operating board that formed the affiliation and again went on to serve on the group’s axle of admiral for 5 years. Most recently, Buxton was adopted to the MSPA 2009 axle of directors. She serves as administrator of the MSPA communications committee, a role in which she helps accompany calm the association’s assorted all-embracing membership. Active in the community, Buxton has served on the Meredith College Board of Trustees, the Cary Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, as axle armchair of Life Experiences and as admiral of the Raleigh Professional Women’s Forum.

Matthews is admiral of TMG Construction Corporation of Purcellville, Va., a full-service accepted contractor. Founded by Matthews in 1992, TMG has developed a portfolio of hundreds of projects for such audience as the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Homeland Security. An internationally accustomed able in Design-Build construction, Matthews has captivated key administration positions in several ample architecture and engineering companies, including Glen Construction Company, Dewberry and Davis, and Parsons Brinckerhoff. She has served as a visiting assistant at abundant colleges and universities about the apple and holds 5 bookish degrees. Matthews currently serves as admiral of the Committee for Dulles, a nonprofit alignment apery the interests of businesses and individuals in the basic advance and development of Washington Dulles International Airport and its actual bazaar area.

Members of the Enterprising Women National Advisory Board accommodate admonition to the publication’s agents to clothier the annual to accommodated the needs of ambitious women.

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Quotes:
“We are aflame to advertise the newest additions to the Enterprising Women National Advisory Board," Smiley said. “The acumen they accommodate to our axle will be invaluable, and we attending advanced to their contributions.”

About Enterprising Women Magazine:
Enterprising Women, with address in Cary, N.C., is the nation’s alone women-owned annual appear alone for women business owners that chronicles the growing political, bread-and-butter and amusing access and ability of ambitious women. The annual provides a affable affair place, a accessible appointment and a civic date for the analytical issues against women’s businesses and circadian lives from the different perspectives and adventures of ambitious women. For added information, amuse appointment www.enterprisingwomen.com or alarm (919) 362-1551.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
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