Cherith is the SBC Director. She oversees the SBC daily operations, workshop schedule, facilitates sessions, and is a small business counselor. 

Her expertise lies in early start-up growth, strategic planning, business planning, and financial planning. She enjoys working side by side with clients to give them access to tools and resources for a successful business. 

Chris supports the operations and logistics of the Small Business Center. She’s been with the SBC for 13 years and is passionate about helping small business owners develop and grow. 
 

Dana Cassell specializes in helping clients with strategic planning and digital marketing. Dana also helps people in the beginning startup phases of establishing their business.

The majority of her work focuses on defining brand strategies and strengthening her clients businesses by better leveraging their brand and reaching their target markets. Dana also excels at helping clients integrate digital marketing into existing business plans, and frequently spends time educating on effective digital marketing management.

Specialties Include: Branding and identity, digital marketing, audience segmentation, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, online advertising, online marketing strategy, social media strategy and management, online analytics, collateral development.
 

Matthew has over 35 years of combined Industry, Consulting experience. He has an MBA, and is a certified PMP Matthew’s consulting experience and qualifications span over 20 years, primarily with premier firms such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Bearing Point, Capgemini and SAP. With his experience as a CFO and with an accounting degree and background, much of Matthew’s Industry and Consulting career has been in leadership roles in finance, accounting and operations. He also led many initiatives in supply chain and human capital management.

Specialties: Financial Planning, Strategy Development and Execution, Reporting and budgeting, Operations, organizational changes, consulting, customer relations, directing, erp, finance, human resources, leadership, state and local local government, management, microsoft office, organizational skills, sap, strategic, supervisory skills, upgrade.

Karriem Kanston is currently the Lead Faculty for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program.

As the founder and president of Kanston Development, a small business development and leadership group he has led for 17 years. Karriem holds an MAT in Entrepreneurship and Business from Johnson and Wales University and has extensive experience teaching college students and business owners courses related to entrepreneurship, business, leadership and finance.