SBA chooses Calhoun as Mississippi’s best

JACKSON — Small Business Person of the Year winners from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam will converge on Washington, D.C., in mid May 2011, when one of them will be selected as National Small Business Person of the Year.

The state winner from Mississippi is John D. Calhoun, Ph.D., CEO of Integrated Management Services, IMS Engineers, in Jackson.

Calhoun is among the nation’s top entrepreneurs who will be honored at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week events May 18-20 in Washington. Under the theme “Empowering Entrepreneurs,” a series of events and educational forums will mark the 58^th anniversary of the agency and the 48^th annual proclamation of National Small Business Week.

The three-day event in Washington, D.C., will take place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration