
Team
Small Business Owner Advocates
The Small Business Owner Advocates is a dedicated group of small and mid-sized Detroit business owners charged with utilizing their experience to inform the work of DMB and help the coalition keep business owner perspectives at the core of what we do. This group has been carefully selected to reflect the rich diversity of Detroit’s small business community, and to bring solutions-oriented owners together to support one another as well as business owners at large.
DMB Staff
Exec Committee
Dave Blaszkiewicz
Invest Detroit
Tim Carter
McKinsey
Nicole Sherard-Freeman
City of Detroit
David Hamilton
McKinsey
September Hargrove
JPM Chase Bank
Kevin D. Johnson
DEGC
Pamela Lewis
New Economy Initiative
Conrad Mallett
City of Detroit
David E Meador
DTE
Carla Walker-Miller, Chair
Walker-Miller Energy Services
Chuck Nolen, Vice Chair
Cutter's Bar & Grill
Funders









Coalition Partners
DMB is a coalition of more than 60 public, private and philanthropic leaders, Detroit-based business support organizations and civic minded small-business entrepreneurs. Its goal is to identify and remove systemic barriers to small-business success by working collectively and leveraging its significant influence to provide resources and improve Detroit’s small business ecosystem.