Mar 21
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM
American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
This is a sponsor-only event.
To learn about sponsorship, contact
Jeremy Rosendale
They have a positive impact on the economy, environment and culture in the state, Mid-Atlantic and other countries.
Once a year, the World Trade Center Institute (WTCI) and State of Maryland honor the people who make this possible – the steadfast leaders at companies, nonprofit organizations, governments and academic institutions who are driving change.
Among the 125+ winners since the first event was held in 1996 are leaders from Marriott International, Under Armour, Procter & Gamble, Lockheed Martin and the United States Senate. See all the winners here.
More than 300 leaders from the Maryland business community – including the Governor of Maryland and 70+ presidents and CEOS – attend the annual awards ceremony.
President
Loyola University of Maryland
Governor
Maryland
Former CEO
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Founder and Former Director/Primary Curator
American Visionary Arts Museum
Former CEO
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
President/Founder
American Visionary Art Museum
Vice President
Ports America Chesapeake
President
Chutes International Manufacturing
President & CEO
Novavax Inc.
President
Chesapeake Specialty Products, Inc.
President & CEO
Global Refuge
Krish is the President and CEO of Global Refuge. She previously served in the Obama White House as Policy Director for First Lady Michelle Obama and at the State Department as Senior Advisor under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry.
Krish has committed her career to public service because she knows how differently life could have turned out. Krish was 9-months old when she and her family escaped a country on the brink of civil war and built a life in Maryland. Her parents came to this country with no jobs and $200 in their pockets.
Krish is a graduate from Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County and then attended Yale College, where she earned a Master’s degree in Political Science and a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where she received an M.Phil. in International Relations, before returning to Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal.
Krish’s interest in public service and grassroots politics began at an early age. In elementary school, Krish went knocking door to door with her mother in support of Senator Barbara Mikulski when she won her historic first race for the Senate. In college, Krish worked for another great public servant when she spent her summer back from college working for Senator Paul Sarbanes.
At the White House, Krish served as Policy Director for Michelle Obama and led the First Lady’s signature Let Girls Learn initiative. At the State Department, she coordinated development and implementation of multiple programs including those concerning refugees and migration, engagement with religious communities, the legal dimensions of U.S. foreign policy, and regional issues relating to Africa and the Middle East. She worked closely with USAID, Health & Human Services and the Department of Defense.
Before joining the White House, Krish practiced law at Jenner & Block in Washington, DC, clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and taught at Georgetown University as an adjunct. She has been recognized as one of The Daily Record’s “Top 100 Women” and serves on the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration.
Krish and her husband, Collin O’Mara are the parents of a young daughter, Alana.
Chief Sustainability Officer
McCormick
Eight people were honored at the 26th annual awards ceremony, held in March at the American Visionary Art Museum. Recognized leaders included. See their stories.
Principal
Miles & Stockbridge & Bowe Fellowship Network Visionary Founder
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Executive in Residence
Loyola University
Brant Matthews is responsible for creating and directing worldwide procurement strategies and programs for raw materials, packaging materials, ingredients, commodities, services and non-inventory items. His global team was responsible for the development and application of procurement strategy, standardization of sourcing processes and systems, establishment and sharing of best practices and global procurement talent management. Before joining McCormick, Brant was source strategy lead for Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for creating, aligning and deploying functional strategy in conjunction with the company’s supply chain transformation. His 22-year career with the company included positions in manufacturing, quality assurance, external manufacturing and procurement at various operating companies in the United States, Belgium and Switzerland.
Maryland Department of Commerce
Head of Global Brand Marketing
T. Rowe Price
Sylvia Toense is a Vice President at T. Rowe Price. Mrs. Toense is the Global Head of Institutional Marketing for T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services, the organization responsible for the firm’s institutional business worldwide.
Sylvia has extensive experience in a range of marketing initiatives including strategic planning, branding, advertising, research, creative, and client communications. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, she held various marketing roles at Legg Mason including director of marketing for the private client business before it was sold to Citigroup/Smith Barney and more recently director of corporate marketing. Previously, she held marketing and investor relations positions at Dynex Financial and its predecessor firms, as well as the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Sylvia has an undergraduate degree in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in Business – Finance concentration from Johns Hopkins University and attended the Securities Industry Institute at The Wharton School.
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. has over 60 years of investment management experience with US$400 billion in assets under management for institutional and individual investors worldwide as of 31 December 2007.
T. Rowe Price is focused exclusively on investment management and related services. It is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ and included in the S&P 500 Index. It has offices in Amsterdam, Baltimore, Buenos Aires, Colorado Springs, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tampa, Toronto and Tokyo.
RSM
Maryland Market Executive
JP Morgan Chase
U.S. Commercial Service
To learn about sponsorship, contact
Jeremy Rosendale or view our Maryland International Business
Leadership Awards Info Pack.
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