WBEA 2017 Business Expo and Matchmaking
May 31, 2017 - June 01, 2017
The WBEA Business EXPO links women business enterprises (WBEs) with corporate purchasers, governmental agencies, and other women-owned businesses for the primary purpose of creating connections and building strong business relationships for contracting.
Event Details
Event Time:
08:00 AM - 08:00 AM
Event Location:
George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida De Las Americas
Houston, Texas 77010

Dare To Be Different Awards
Luncheon Winners
Supplier of the year - $10 Million +
Primary Services, Regina Mellinger
Supplier of the Year - $5- $10 Million
CompuCycle, Kelly Hess
WBE Advocate of the Year
Melizza Hernandez, M&J Carriers
WBE Volunteer of the Year
Wesley Lichenstein, Bayside Printing
Corporate Advocate of the Year
Jewel Smith, CenterPoint Energy
Corporation of the Year
CenterPoint Energy
Corporation of the Year
ExxonMobil
Corporate Volunteer of the Year
Brian Hall, Shell Oil Company
Corporate Buyer of the Year
Alan Valicek, CenterPoint Energy
Sponsors
Diamond Sponsor
Houston First Corporation
Pearl Sponsor
Chevron
Shell
Platinum Sponsor
BP America
ExxonMobil
Bayside Printing
Gold Sponsor
Conoco Phillips
Toyota
Silver Sponsor
Fluor Corporation
Houston Collaborator Sponsor
United Airlines
Bronze Sponsorship
CenterPoint Energy
The Coca-Cola company
entergy
safe haven enterprises, inc.
NRG Energy
Metal Sponsorship
Primary Services
Name Badge Sponsorship
M & J Carriers, LLC
Luncheon Table Sponsors
BMC Software
Wholesale Electric Supply Co.
Digital Brand Sponsor
Market Doctors
Matchmaking Sponsor
Cloud Custom Solutions
Floral Sponsor
True Vines
Media Sponsor
Cox Media
Exhibitors
Access sciences corporation
adroit partners
Advanced Graphics
advance pierre foods
Bayside Printing
Blackmorn Morring
bmc software
BP America Inc.
BRIDGEFORTH WOLF & ASSOCIATES
Carnegie learning
CenterPoint Energy
Chevron
Coca-Cola
compu cycle, inc.
ConocoPhillips
Continental Terrazzo Supply
CRES+Associates
crisis prevention institute
discount school supply
Dresser-Rand : A Siemens Company
Entergy- Texas
ExxonMobil
Fluor Corporation
goldman sachs 10,000 small business program
HoustonFirst
Houston ISD
istation
jrh engineering & environmental services
L.K. Jordan & Associates
M&J Carriers, LLC.
Make Music Count
mama rosa's pupseria
Manpower Group
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Market Doctors
metro Transit Authority
Metroclean
Metromarketing services, inc.
Midwest Steel Company
NJ Malinn & Assoiciates, LLc
Nan & Company Properties
National Geographic learning- Cengage Learning
NAWBO
NEGOV
neoRhino It solutions
Nino Properties
north American Chrome and Alloy
North Houston pole line company
NRG Energy
Off Duty Services, Inc.
OneLogos
Optimum Consulatancy
Primary Services
Rich Products
S.A Piazza & Assoc. LLC
S.L. King Technologies, Inc.
Safe Haven Enterprises
Shell
Sunshine Personnel
Toyota
True Vines
United Airlines
University of Texas MD ANDERSON
WE USA Magazine
WHOLESALE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. OF HOUSTON, INC.