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Mark Walsh is now part of the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) after being named the Associate Administrator for the Office of Investment and Innovation.
The office administers the agency’s Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC).
As an associate administrator, Walsh will be in charge of an office that has provided management assistance, long-term loans, equity capital to qualified small businesses through its SBIC program since 1959. He will also lead the STTR and SBIR programs that have helped entrepreneurs commercialize their products and services and provided small businesses with funds for projects that meet government research needs, boosting technological innovation in the private and public sectors.