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Boston MDBA

Keith A. Greenaway

Director

Keith A. Greenaway is the Director of the Boston MBDA Business Center. Keith provides guidance in several areas of small business development and growth, including: identifying and obtaining contracts with private sector and public sector buyers, sourcing debt and equity financing, analyzing and closing strategic transactions, and pursuing export opportunities.
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Keith A. Greenaway currently serves as Director of the Boston MBDA Business Center. He is a Mergers and Acquisitions specialist and entrepreneur who has leveraged hard-earned legal expertise in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions to cultivate competencies that today are essential in advising SMEs in growth strategies. Over the course of his twenty-year legal and business career, Keith has been exposed to a broad range of sectors and has served at the fulcrum of the conclusion of several domestic and cross-border transactions. Over the arc of his career starting with his formative days as a broker-assistant at Lehman Brothers, Keith has accumulated an experiential knowledge base of timeless principles, methods, and tactics that have served exponential corporate growth historically and continues to serve as the bedrock for unleashing full business and human potential.  He is a true disciple of the philosophy of essential quality of strategic plans, strategic partnerships, joint ventures and acquisitions as indispensable components to meaningful SME growth.  Keith is an alumni of Georgetown University Law Center and Boston College where he studied Political Science and Philosophy.

Peter F. Hurst

President and CEO

Peter F. Hurst  is the President and CEO of GNEMSDC.  He also is a Senior Advisor with Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Inc. (“MIRA”), a $3 billion private equity fund that invests in infrastructure assets in the U.S. He also was Chief Financial Officer and legal advisor to Our Club Collection, LLC, a minority- and woman-owned social media company founded in 2010.
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Mr. Hurst was the Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of the Urban Financial Group, Inc. He was also the Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Acting Chief Lending Officer of The Community’s Bank. The Community’s Bank, which was the only minority-owned and managed bank in Connecticut, was focused on Connecticut’s urban centers:  Bridgeport; Hartford; and New Haven.  Prior to founding the bank, Mr. Hurst was the Founder and President of Hurst Capital Partners, Inc., a financial advisory and merchant-banking firm.  Before starting his own firm, Mr. Hurst was a Senior Vice President in Dean Witter Reynolds’ Corporate Finance/Financial Institutions Group, where he specialized in investment banking transactions for banks, thrifts and mortgage companies.  Mr. Hurst was also a member of the Financial Institutions Group of E.F. Hutton.

He began his career as a practicing lawyer.  Mr. Hurst was an Attorney in the General Counsel’s Office of the Federal Reserve Board, specializing in bank mergers and acquisitions.  He also was an Associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson.  From 1981 to 1982, Mr. Hurst served as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Mr. Hurst received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1981, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with an A.B. in accounting in 1978.

 

Tameka Moss

Director of Business Growth

Tameka has over sixteen years’ experience in organizational and leadership development; she applies her talent management experience to advise clients on the best approach to attract, retain, and develop their talent. Her experience spans from managing diverse work teams and overseeing organizational assessments, to solution design, facilitation, and execution for industries as diverse as financial services, manufacturing, retail, professional services, not-for-profit, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. She also specializes in leadership development and performance initiatives.

For the past eight years, Tameka, a former Partner, led Next Street’s talent management practice which focused on the diverse human capital needs of both small-business/nonprofit and large-enterprise organizations. Prior to Next Street, she was a member of the organizational and leadership development practices at Capital H Group and Right Management Consultants. Tameka holds a dual B.A. in Sociology and African-American Studies with a concentration in history from Yale University where she received a Master’s Cup and the Elm and Ivy Award for her dedication to community service and strengthening the relationship between Yale and the surrounding New Haven neighborhoods. She has been a repeat lecturer at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s ICCC executive education series, a speaker at the Linkage Organizational Development Summit and for the New England Human Resources Association South Shore Workshop series, as well as an author for Workforce Magazine.

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Mr. Hurst was the Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of the Urban Financial Group, Inc. He was also the Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Acting Chief Lending Officer of The Community’s Bank. The Community’s Bank, which was the only minority-owned and managed bank in Connecticut, was focused on Connecticut’s urban centers:  Bridgeport; Hartford; and New Haven.  Prior to founding the bank, Mr. Hurst was the Founder and President of Hurst Capital Partners, Inc., a financial advisory and merchant-banking firm.  Before starting his own firm, Mr. Hurst was a Senior Vice President in Dean Witter Reynolds’ Corporate Finance/Financial Institutions Group, where he specialized in investment banking transactions for banks, thrifts and mortgage companies.  Mr. Hurst was also a member of the Financial Institutions Group of E.F. Hutton.

He began his career as a practicing lawyer.  Mr. Hurst was an Attorney in the General Counsel’s Office of the Federal Reserve Board, specializing in bank mergers and acquisitions.  He also was an Associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson.  From 1981 to 1982, Mr. Hurst served as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Mr. Hurst received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1981, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with an A.B. in accounting in 1978.

 

Joanne Wang

Program Manager

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