| Claudia Viek, CAMEO’s
new CEO, comes with over twenty-five years of experience in
microenterprise and community development. Before joining CAMEO
she ran a consulting practice that focused on building equity
in low-income communities, with projects that promoted strong
and sustainable businesses and nonprofits, and that increased
assets and access to capital.
For fourteen years she was President of the Renaissance
Entrepreneurship Center, an award-winning training, financing,
and business incubator program serving the San Francisco Bay
Area. She has been a pioneer of business incubation strategies
in California and founded the Pacific Incubation Network,
a west coast regional alliance of business incubators
Claudia was a recent Past President and board member of NAWBO’s
(National Association of Women Business Owners) San Francisco
Bay Area chapter. In addition, she currently serves on the
boards of Mal Warwick & Associates, a direct mail enterprise,
Working Solutions, a microenterprise fund, and is President
of the Board of the St. John’s Educational Thresholds
Center, a youth development program in the Mission District.
Claudia has an AB from William Smith College and has done
graduate work in Urban Studies. She has one son, four stepsons,
and seven grandchildren and lives in San Francisco.
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