April 14, 2022 – El Paso County is psyched to announce that the Pikes Peak Smaller Small business Progress Center Government Director Aikta Marcoulier has been appointed as Location VIII Little Business Administration (SBA) Regional Administrator by President Joe Biden.
Aikta Marcoulier will be a essential player to the President’s attempts to assistance tiny corporations most impacted by the pandemic recuperate and rebuild. She delivers a prosperity of experience to the part. She will continue on to support little corporations to be certain they acquire the resources and guidance they have to have while fostering potent collaborative interactions with federal, state, tribal, and regional leaders.
“My appointment by the Biden-Harris administration to the Area VIII administrator situation is certainly an honor. I have worked, boots on the ground as the Pikes Peak SBDC Director for just underneath 10 years,” stated Aikta Marcoulier, Pikes Peak SBDC Government Director. “As an SBDC we worked with smaller corporations throughout all industries, minority groups and veteran populations. I have experienced the opportunity to discover of the working day to day wants, struggles and successes of modest business as effectively as the requirements of disaster reduction – fires, floods and now the pandemic. The prospect to support the group that presented us with the resources my staff and I worked on each and every working day, is a dream. Supporting SBA coverage and sources at an administration degree is an interesting option.”
“Aikta Marcoulier, with her remarkable passion and power, will provide as a powerful advocate and voice for SBA plans to support and advance compact organizations,” stated Crystal LaTier, El Paso County Executive Director of Economic Development. “I’ve experienced the fantastic satisfaction of performing carefully with Aikta, and I am enthusiastic she will be bringing her wide working experience and quite a few regional partnerships to her new role. Her working experience and understanding make her the right particular person at the appropriate time to help modest businesses and business people recuperate and rebuild right after the pandemic.”
Aikta Marcoulier joined the Smaller Small business Improvement Center (SBDC) group as the director of the Pikes Peak Centre in Might 2012. Prior to the SBDC, she was the Director of Partnership Promoting with the Professional Bull Riders. Marcoulier is also the method creator and manager of the Colorado SBDC’s Cyber: Address Your Belongings software providing education and learning, coaching, and one-on-just one consulting to smaller businesses through Colorado. She also serves as a regional coordinator for the NorthStar CMM system.
Marcoulier is included in the El Pomar Emerging Leaders System and is an lively board member of the Pikes Peak Workforce Improvement Board and vice-chair of the Far better Business enterprise Bureau of Southern Colorado. She is on the Pikes Peak Neighborhood Faculty Company Advisory Board and is president of the Colorado Company Advancement Basis. She serves on a lot of committees for the Colorado Springs Business Journal and is on the technologies and capability committees for the Colorado SBDC Community. Moreover, she is a member of ROAR (Interactions, Prospects, Acumen, and Readiness Committee) for the UCCS College of Company. Marcoulier acquired her MBA in international administration from the College of Phoenix and undergraduate levels in both economics and psychology from the College of Iowa.
She has received quite a few awards, including the College of Iowa Management Award in 2011, and was named a person of the Colorado Springs Organization Journal’s Climbing Stars for 2013 and Gals of Influence and is the 2021 Management Pike Peak Modeling the Way Award winner.
Location VIII serves Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
Aikta will commence her new purpose on May possibly 23, 2022. Her previous working day with the Pikes Peak Little Business Progress Centre will be May 20, 2022.
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For media concerns or request for interviews, please contact Pikes Peak Tiny Business enterprise Development Heart Government Director Aikta Marcoulier at 719-466-0774.
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