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• mySBX Nomininated for Two NVTC Hot Ticket Awards

  MCLEAN, Va. --(NVTC.org) - The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) has announced the nominees for its signature Hot Ticket Awards, designed to recognize the best and brightest regional technology companies. mySBX has been nominated in two categories - Hottest Bootstrap and Hottest Buzz.

• mySBX Selected Present at Capital Connection '09

  MCLEAN, Va. --(Reuters) - Mid-Atlantic Venture Association today named the 32 early and expansion stage technology companies that have been selected to present at its flagship investment conference, Capital Connection '09, May 26-27, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Washington, DC. A second group of companies, including high growth/later stage companies that will make presentations or participate on special topical panels will be announced later this week. Among the sectors anticipated to be represented are software, clean tech, health care IT, internet and online services, wireless, and telecommunications.

• NVTC and mySBX Begin Dynamic Partnership

  HERNDON, Va., May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced today that The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC has entered into a partnership with mySBX, a network for government contractors and professionals to exchange opportunities, resources, and information to win more business, expand capabilities, and increase profitability.
  
  "With this exciting partnership, we will redefine what online business networking is going to be in the next decade," said Kristin D'Amore, Director of The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC. "mySBX has allowed us to seize an opportunity in the burgeoning online business world by accessing their networking expertise. NVTC has proven itself as Northern Virginia's leader for in-person events and advocacy. Now we want to be the leader in connecting our vast membership online."

• NVTC B2G

  Washington, DC - TECHBISNOW - May 4, 2009 - At the NVTC's B2G committee meeting Friday morning in Tysons, we found My SBX's Jeff White and Stacy Brownstein, NVTC's Kristin D'Amore, Credence Management Solutions CEO Sid Chowdhary and Dutko's Matt Schrader. Just today, MySBX announced a partnership with the NVTC, helping connect its members with MySBX's business exchange platform. "We've been called the Match.com of government contracting," Jeff says...

• Dendy Young Joins mySBX Board of Directors

  Reston, VA (PRWEB) March 9, 2009 -- mySBX Inc. announced the appointment of Dendy Young to its Board of Directors today. mySBX.com is a network for businesses and professionals to exchange opportunities, resources, and information to win more business, expand capabilities, and increase profitability.

• Ken Tighe Joins mySBX Board of Directors

  Reston, VA (PRWEB) March 4, 2009 -- mySBX Inc., an online professional network where businesses exchange opportunities, resources, and information to win more business, expand capabilities, and increase profitability, today announced the appointment of Ken Tighe to its Board of Directors.

• mySBX Network to be Used in Lockheed Martin Pilot Program to Find Diverse and Qualified Subcontractors

  Reston, VA (PRWEB) February 24, 2009 - mySBX is beginning a pilot program with Lockheed Martin that will leverage the mySBX professional network in finding and assessing diverse and qualified subcontractors. mySBX is a network for businesses and professionals to exchange opportunities, resources, and information to win more business, expand capabilities, and increase profitability.

• Networkers Are on a Roll

  Reston, Va. - Monday, January 26, 2009 - The Washington Post - ... White and I had a chance to talk about his eight-month-old company that matches contracting firms with subcontractors. It's like an online dating site for government contractors. Large firms that need a smaller company's help on a project can use the Web portal to find consultants with the necessary qualifications. For example, if ManTech needs to find a subcontractor owned by a woman or veteran to work on a contract for NASA, the site provides possible candidates...

• Federal contractors succeed with mySBX and Set-Aside Alert

  Reston, Va., November 10, 2008 - mySBX and Set-Aside Alert have agreed to leverage their expertise and capabilities to deliver increased value to their members through a joint promotional agreement. Set-Aside Alert will utilize the mySBX platform to offer their rich small business information service to mySBX members. The mySBX platform will enable its members to join the Set-Aside Alert information network to grow their businesses in new, creative ways.

• mySBX Presents at the 2008 Business Alliance Grubstake

  Fairfax Va. - October 16, 2008 - It is very rare that a company can introduce something so transformative as to change the way businesses and independents work forever. Introducing the first Resource and Opportunity Exchanges (matching market supply and demands), and leveraging the latest Web 2.0 technologies, mySBX is enabling business owners by helping them to pursue revenue opportunities, exchange assets and resources, collaborate on projects, and accelerate decisions regarding best in class support services.

• Board Members Launch One of the Most Innovative Web 2.0 Companies in the DC Area

  Herndon, Va. - The Voice of Technology/Northern Virginia Technology Council - Fall 2008 - ...The site is designed for small and medium business struggling to find new opportunities and resources in the area.

  
  

  "For a small business, it is really about how to keep employees billable and identify more work"...

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• Ex-Fed IT Types Go Hip

  Washington, DC - TECHBISNOW - Sept. 3, 2008 - It seems everyone is using Web 2.0 technologies these days, even government contractors, thanks to mySBX, a site that launched in May to allow companies to connect and share employees...

• mySBX Connects Small, Large Contractors to New Biz Opportunities

  Washington, DC - Executive Biz - June 19, 2008 - ... Agency dollars unspent, small business staffing resources left idle on the bench, and the inability of large providers to identify teaming partners outside their subcontractor network – as was the case in the example above – were all pain points White witnessed first hand from the time he founded Blue Canopy in 2001 to the day he sold it five years later. He knew there had to be a better way. Enter mySBX...

• mySBX.com Launched to Enable Government Contractors to Connect and Collaborate in New and Innovative Ways

  Reston, Va., May 20 /Reuters/ - mySBX, Inc., announced today it has launched mySBX.com, a first of its kind destination portal to help Government contractors connect, collaborate and share opportunities to drive businesses growth...

• Deltek Partners with mySBX to Enable Government Contractors to Connect and Collaborate in New and Innovative Ways

  Nashville, TN - May 21, 2008 - Deltek, Inc. (NASDAQ: PROJ), the leading provider of enterprise applications software for project-focused organizations, today announced that it will be sponsoring two on-line communities within the mySBX destination portal to help Government contractors connect, collaborate and share information and opportunities to enable their businesses to grow...

Leadership Team

• Bradley Schwartz, Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

  
  

  Mr. Schwartz brings 29 years of consulting and systems integration experience to mySBX. Having served as the Group EVP for BearingPoint where he managed 14,000 professionals, Managing Partner for KPMG Consulting’s Information Communications and Electronics business and CEO/President of two small businesses, Mr. Schwartz understands the Professional and IT service industry and what is needed to help small business accelerate their growth and compete with large companies.

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• Jeff White, Founder & President

  
  

  Mr. White has over 17 years experience launching and leading businesses. As a founder of Blue Canopy, Mr. White led the sales effort to help Blue Canopy receive two Inc. 500 awards for being one of the top 500 fastest growing private companies in America. He led Blue Canopy’s team to form an alliance with Gartner to showcase the company’s process improvement technology. As a passionate entrepreneur and technologist, Mr. White brings to mySBX tremendous vision around the critical elements it takes for a small business to succeed and prosper.

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• Cian Chang, Vice President of Products

  
  

  Mr. Chang brings 15 years experience defining and delivering large-scale consumer Internet solutions. He led the product management team responsible for six major releases of the AOL integrated client suite and for extending AOL services onto TV set-top boxes, pagers, cell phones, and PDA’s. He directed the engineering teams responsible for distribution and installation of products including the AIM client, AOL browser toolbars, and AOL safety and security products. And he managed site production and content publishing for the AOL News and Reference channels, in addition to bringing online such partners as the New York Times and Newsweek.

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• Dr. Mary Ann Wangemann, Vice President of Content Acquisition and Management

  
  

  Dr. Wangemann has over 24 years in the federal space in all aspects of the procurement and delivery cycle in deals ranging in size from $100,000 to $13 billion. She has been an editor for a Contract Excellence newsletter and the author of 13 textbooks in federal, state and local, and subcontract management. In addition, Dr. Wangemann is professor at several universities teaching contract management, government acquisition, and related MBA courses.

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• David Coakley, Director of Marketing and Sales

  
  

  Mr. Coakley has over 20 years of successful entrepreneurial, marketing and sales management experience in the IT and internet industries. As the founder and President of Comstor, he led the company through eight years of rapid growth and ultimately through its acquisition by a public company. As President of GovCon, he reinvented the Web portal launching a highly popular tool named ‘BidRadar’, and then led the company through a period of exponential growth before it was acquired by VerticalNet, a public company, less than 12 months later. As Director of Public Sector for VerticalNet, Mr. Coakley led the acquisition of several companies that served government contractors establishing a strong B2G vertical within the VerticalNet family of over 50 vertical industries. As VP of Marketing for YellowPages.com he assisted in developing the brand, a reseller channel, and strategy in the years leading up to its acquisition by AT&T. Along with his passion for delivering excellence in the eyes of customers, Mr. Coakley provides mySBX with welcomed entrepreneurial and management experience gained in high growth environments.

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Board of Directors

• Bradley Schwartz, Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

  
  

  Mr. Schwartz brings 29 years of consulting and systems integration experience to mySBX. Having served as the Group EVP for BearingPoint where he managed 14,000 professionals, Managing Partner for KPMG Consulting’s Information Communications and Electronics business and CEO/President of two small businesses, Mr. Schwartz understands the Professional and IT service industry and what is needed to help small business accelerate their growth and compete with large companies.

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• Jeff White, Founder & President

  
  

  Mr. White has over 17 years experience launching and leading businesses. As a founder of Blue Canopy, Mr. White led the sales effort to help Blue Canopy receive two Inc. 500 awards for being one of the top 500 fastest growing private companies in America. He led Blue Canopy’s team to form an alliance with Gartner to showcase the company’s process improvement technology. As a passionate entrepreneur and technologist, Mr. White brings to mySBX tremendous vision around the critical elements it takes for a small business to succeed and prosper.

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• Ken Tighe

  
  

  A successful entrepreneur and executive, Ken Tighe has maintained a record of building organizations and driving profitable growth in the software industry for over 20 years. Tighe has led three consecutive start up/early stage companies to successful exits.

  Serving as CEO, Tighe most recently led Care Fusion, Inc., a developer of wireless patient identification software for the U.S. hospital market, from start up to profitability and eventual all cash sale to Cardinal Health Inc.(NYSE: CAH) in four and a half years.

  Tighe founded Radian Systems, a software developer and systems integrator, and served as its president and CEO from 1994 to its 1999 merger with Sequoia Software. He served as EVP of Sequoia, a developer of XML-based enterprise portals, actively participating in Sequoia's venture round in 1999, successful IPO in May 2000, and all cash sale to Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CXTS) in 2001.

  Tighe is currently the Principal of Charles Street Capital, LLC, an angel investment fund based near Washington, D.C.

• Dendy Young

  
  

  Dendy Young is the managing partner of McLean Capital, LLC, a private equity firm based in McLean, Va., focused on private equity investments in government information technology.

  From January 1996 to February 2006, Mr. Young was chief executive officer of GTSI Corp. (Nasdaq: GTSI), an enterprise services and solutions provider. Additionally, he served as chairman of the board from 1998 until May 2007.

  An award-winning executive with more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Mr. Young serves on the executive committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), as chairman of NVTC's TechPAC (Political Action Committee), and on the board of directors of AFCEA International, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He is a member of the board of the Chesapeake Crescent, a politically engaged regional initiative. He is chairman of the board of CNSW, LLC, and is on the boards of Omnilink Systems, Inc., Subsystems Technologies, Inc., and Liquid Computing Federal.

  In recognition of his leadership and contributions, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from VARBusiness magazine at the 2003 VAR500 awards ceremony. He also received the Federal CIO Council's Azimuth award, which is bestowed upon one industry leader each year, in 2000. He was named three times to the Fed 100, a prestigious group nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to government and industry and won the coveted Eagle Industry Award. He also received the Federation of Government Information Processing Council (FGIPC) President's Award for his efforts in widening communications between government and industry.

  Prior to GTSI, Mr. Young served as chief executive officer of Falcon Microsystems, Inc., the second of two companies he founded and sold between 1981 and 1994. In less than 10 years, Falcon Microsystems grew to be a nationally recognized, multi-platform federal reseller and integrator before being sold to GTSI in August 1994.

  Mr. Young holds a S.B. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's in business administration from the Harvard Business School.

Testimonials from mySBX Members

• mySBX.com is assisting ManTech in finding firms around the globe to join our teams with cleared staff and solutions on our nation’s most pressing priorities. This is a forerunner of how to increase efficiency and reduce time in federal contracting.

  

  John A. Sutton
  Senior VP, Defense & Intelligence, ManTech IS&T

• I wanted to thank you again and let you know how impressed I am with mySBX. I am doing all I can to introduce new members to the site as we have a large number of IT and IT contracting companies as clients.

  Jim Campbell
  Integrated Benefits Group, LLC

• MySBX is the first resource in the government-procurement arena that has actually offered me value. I get lots of emails every week from companies offering to help me land a government contract--but they charge a lot of money. I treat their email as spam. Your email and Webinar service have been added to my "Trusted Vendor" email filter.

  

  Carol J. Elkins
  MAS
  A Written Word LLC

• I joined mySBX last week as an additional marketing venue for highlighting my 30 years experience in marketing through the use of promotional products - executive gifts, marketing tools, customized wearables, trade show giveaways, etc. Within a week I had my first order from a business who saw my company profile on mySBX. What a great way to help small, solid businesses like mine find new clients and develop new relationships. mySBX has opened up an entirely new network of businesses for us to help.

  

  Patti Brownstein
  MAS
  LGP Promotional Group Inc.

• We got several candidates via your mySBX process. It proved very valuable. We are on the bandwagon!

  I look forward to continued futures successes working with your group and your network...

  

  Jim Satterley
  Vice President, Sales & Marketing
  KnexGEN Solutions

• mySBX provides the tool for companies of all sized to vet, validate and connect with each other. Too often small businesses spend enormous amounts of time just proving themselves to existing prime contractors and large system integrators. mySBX is not necessarily a social network, but rather a resource for potential teaming partners and customers to search and verify claims of small businesses. I see a bright future as mySBX evolves into an industry changing instrument. I’m glad to be an early adopter. I get many requests for a variety of social and business related social network tools, but often ignore most of them. mySBX is on to something and it can be big.

  

  Don Beery
  Partner
  Achievence LLC

• It’s great to see a company like Lockheed adopting a tool like mySBX to help identify and establish a dialog with small businesses. mySBX fills a previously unmet niche in the government contracting space, and with continued growth will become an even more valuable tool that companies can use to share opportunities and resources. More importantly, because mySBX promotes the web 2.0 principles of communication and collaboration to bring interested parties together, the efficiency of teaming process is greatly improved over traditional databases like the CCR and Suppliernet.

  

  Ari Knausbenberger
  Managing Partner
  Strategi Consulting LLC

• Just wanted to send a note expressing my gratitude for the launch of mySBX.com...

  
  

  I’ve listed some other “opportunities” since and each time,I’ve received an overwhelming response from a variety of companies offering to help...

  
  

  I’ve been impressed with how quickly the communities are popping up. There is so much relevant material on the site for a small business to access and as you know, it’s nice not to always have to pay top dollar for the answers to our everyday questions...

  

  Melinda Warren
  VP, Finance & Administration
  Vistronix, Inc.

• To provide our customers with the best overall product experience it is important that we provide the best opportunities available for sharing valuable information on a multitude of levels. This collaborative effort between Deltek and mySBX will offer a completely new and unique networking capability unlike anything previously available.

  

  Kevin Parker
  President and CEO
  Deltek

• mySBX is creating an invaluable tool that brings together robust content and collaboration features that delivers real efficiency to our workforce. Unisys intends to not only be an active participant within all the features of mySBX but also sponsor and participate with many of their communities.

  

  Greg Baroni
  Senior Vice President
  Unisys Federal Systems

• mySBX is a much needed answer to how businesses will grow revenue, find new opportunities, and access content built specifically to help accelerate key decisions. This first of its kind collaborative platform will transform how businesses operate with their partners, customers and employees.

  

  Rand Blazer
  former CEO BearingPoint
  current Chief Operating Officer, Apex

• mySBX has proven to be a great tool for us finding new opportunities and also placing some of our underutilized resources. While we have only recently become an active user we have already closed almost $50k of work that we would have never been exposed to before mySBX.

  

  Jeff Ozolins
  former CFO
  Blue Canopy