Make Mine A Million $ Business™ Names Expert Panel for Women in Business Event

Charlotte, NC, September 26, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine A Million $ Business™ event (www.makemineamillion.org), has announced the expert panelists for the event to be held Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Blake Hotel, located at 555 S Mcdowell St. Each panel member is a woman in business in North Carolina who owns and runs a multimillion-dollar business. Leah Brown, president of Aten Solution, Inc. in Raleigh; Tana Greene, president of Strataforce in Charlotte; and Paula Turner, CEO of LexAir Electronic Sales, Inc. in Greensboro, will speak about how they started their business, what has made their business successful and address challenges for women in business. Each of these panel members represents one of North Carolina’s chapters of the Women Presidents’ Organization, a national organization of women who own and run multimillion-dollar businesses.

Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a combination of money, mentoring, marketing and technology tools that help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses from micros to millions. Finalists will be selected from applicants statewide and asked to deliver a business pitch to women entrepreneurs, judges and guests at the event. Winners will be chosen by judges and audience members. Women entrepreneurs interested in applying for the North Carolina event are encouraged to visit www.makemineamillion.org for more information.

“We are honored to have Leah, Tana and Paula serve on our expert panel,” said Nell Merlino, founder and president of Count Me In. “The insight that they will provide to the event attendees will be invaluable.”

“We are excited about having such esteemed panelists for our upcoming event for women in business,” Cantando said. “Each of these owners of a multimillion-dollar business will inform women and aid our goal of having a million women business owners with businesses earning a million dollars or more by 2010.”

About Make Mine A Million $ Business™:
Make Mine a Million $ Business™, a program of Count Me In and founding partner, American Express OPENSM, provides women entrepreneurs with the opportunity to expand their businesses by generating more than a million dollars in annual revenue. A unique nationwide program that provides money, mentoring and marketing opportunities to help businesses grow from micro to millions, the goal of Make Mine a Million $ Business™ is to lead one million women entrepreneurs in the effort to reach annual revenues of one million dollars by 2010. North Carolina will host the state’s first Make Mine a Million $ Business™ event on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. For more information please visit www.makemineamillion.org or call (212) 245-1245.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

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