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Claudia Viek
Chief Executive Officer
cviek@microbiz.org

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.

Shufina English
Director of Programs and Operations
senglish@microbiz.org

Shufina English joined CAMEO in 2009 as the Director of Programs and Operations. She is responsible for directing the operations of the organization as well as managing several programs including CAMEO’s !Viva! Las Microempresas and the California Self-Employment Tax Initiative.

Before joining CAMEO Shufina worked as a business broker between US Manufacturers, and South American textile factories where she became a specialist in sustainable, organic, and fair trade business practices. She developed significant ongoing business (both mass and niche oriented) within the sector. An entrepreneur at heart, Shufina has years of business and product development experience in the private sector having assisted with the initiation and growth of multiple small businesses across a variety of sectors. As a “stay at home mom” she developed a successful home based financial services business and concurrently developed a successful outside family business. Well aware of the exigencies that micro entrepreneurs face, she is also fully cognizant of the rewards and benefits (both tangible and intangible) that can be achieved with dedication and hard work. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with a minor in business from San Francisco State University. Fluent in Spanish and conversant in Italian and French, she loves to travel, and loves to dance. Incidentally, she has taken this second passion and created her own micro enterprise, www.campswing.com, now California’s longest running revival swing dance camp, conceived at the kitchen table and successful every year since 1998!

Christine Mahihu
Administrative Coordinator
cmahihu@microbiz.org

Christine Mahihu is our new Administrative Coordinator. She Graduated from Principia College with a degree in Environmental Studies and is keen to see the creation of more small green businesses in CA. She is currently responsible for the administrative and communication needs of CAMEO.

Previously, Christine worked at the law firm McCarter & Greenley in St. Louis where she gained skills in client interaction and office organization. She was also active in college where she was the president of the Black Student Union, Eco-head of her house and a board member of the Annual Pan African Conference.