Baltimore SmartCEO Celebrates 25 Powerhouse Women Leaders at the Brava! Awards

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Baltimore SmartCEO Celebrates 25 Powerhouse Women Leaders at the Brava! Awards, July 11

400 CEOs & decision-makers will join SmartCEO in honoring female CEOs at this
highly anticipated, high-energy celebration

Baltimore, MD (June 29, 2012) — Baltimore SmartCEO magazine recognizes this year’s Brava winners at the 2012 Brava! Awards to take place on Wednesday, July 11 at 6:00 p.m. at the American Visionary Art Museum. The Brava! Awards celebrate the distinguished achievements of 25 of Greater Baltimore’s women business leaders. This year’s winners collectively generate $2 billion in revenue and employ over 5,000 people. Additionally, the 2012 Brava winners will be profiled in the July 2012 issue of Baltimore SmartCEO magazine.

Please see below for complete program details. Follow us on twitter @SmartCEO and join in on the excitement! #brava!awards.

The Baltimore Brava! Awards, now in its sixth year of celebration, kicked off with a nomination process ending this past March. Across the Mid-Atlantic, over 200 nominations were collected for the program. To be considered for the Brava! Awards, nominees were required to be women executives leading companies that generated at least $1 million in revenue and who encourage local philanthropy, mentor fellow CEOs and set their companies on the path to tremendous growth. A dozen local business leaders of Greater Baltimore came together to form the Brava committee and to choose this year’s winners.

For a complete list of winners, please see below. For more information on the Brava winners, visit www.smartceo.com to view the digital edition of the July 2012 issue.

“The 2012 Brava winners are an impressive group of women doing exceptional things for our community and beyond. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow — a highly talented group that has the drive to do great things. I am sure we will continue to hear of their success for many, many years to come,” says Craig Burris, founder and president of SmartCEO magazine. “We are honored to recognize such a group of women and their accomplishments.” 

The winners will be celebrated at the Baltimore Brava! Awards ceremony on July 11, 2012, at the American Visionary Art Museum. An expected sell-out event, 400 local C-level executives and guests will attend to celebrate the winners’ achievements.  Past Brava winners, including members of the Baltimore Brava! Hall of Fame as well as potential inductees will also be in attendance. Five past Brava winners will be honored the evening of the event with their induction into the Brava! Hall of Fame. The event will kick off with a cocktail reception followed by the awards ceremony and a final toast to the women leaders of Greater Baltimore. Suit donations will also be accepted the evening of the event for SmartCEO’s Baltimore Brava! Awards charity partner, Success in Style, an organization which helps women and men in crisis in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor become self-sufficient and employed by providing suits and changing lives.

About SmartCEO
SmartCEO is an exclusive community of CEOs and business leaders with a mission to educate, motivate and inspire our community through the pages of our magazine, connections at our C-level events and access to valuable online resources. With over 10 years of consistent growth, our communities comprise business leaders who are visionaries, mentors and well-respected leaders whose experiences benefit their own organizations and the communities in which they serve. Growing companies are SmartCEO companies.

About the Brava! Awards
The Brava! Awards celebrate women business leaders who combine their irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for giving back to the community. These female CEOs have become exemplary leaders in their companies and the community at large by encouraging local philanthropy, mentoring fellow CEOs and setting their companies on the path to tremendous growth.

COMPLETE PROGRAM INFORMATION
2012 Brava! Awards
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012   
Time: 6-9 pm
Location: American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230
Attire: Business Cocktail

2012 Baltimore Brava Winners
Accent On Travel, Annette Stellhorn
AdNet/AccountNet, Inc., Betsy Cerulo
Applied Technology Services, Danielle Burnett
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Karen E. Olscamp
Bambeco, Susan Aplin
Being There Senior Care, LLC, Linda Cromwell
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Chesapeake, Inc., Robin A. Tomechko
BOC, Claudia Zacharias
BottomLine Growth Strategies, Inc., Carol Coughlin
Business Health Services, Dawn Motovidlak
H&S Resources Corporation, Sonja Hines
HealthPlan Headquarters, Suzanne Thompson
Howard Community College, Dr. Kathleen Hetherington
Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, Patricia M.C. Brown
Jordan Thomas Salon & Spa, Terry McGill
LPSenft&Associates/Baltimore Mediation, Louise Phipps Senft
MAC, Liz Rhode
Marian House, Inc., Katie Allston
PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, Audrey Leviton
Play Centers, Inc., Mona Criswell-Dinsmore
PMS Parking, Inc., Amsale Geletu
Roeder Travel, Mimi Roeder Vaughan
Sofi's Crepes, Ann Costlow
WellDoc®, Dr. Suzanne Sysko Clough
World Trade Center Institute, Deborah Kielty

To find out more about the 2013 Brava! Awards nomination process, contact programs manager Georgia Thomas. For tickets and sponsorship opportunities, contact regional director Suzanne Ratti or register online at http://www.cvent.com/d/vcq18y/4W.

In an effort to preserve the reputational equity of each event, SmartCEO requests that guests be limited to ONLY the following: CEOs who are running profitable and comparably sized organizations; C-level management of profitable companies. C- level consists of: CEO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CIO, COO, Chairman, President. SmartCEO reserves the right to manage the event guest list and attendee access.

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