Suzy Hrabovsky

Suzy Hrabovsky is a na military spouse, and mother of two boys, 6 and 4 She currently serves as the Executive Director of CEED, the Center for Economic Empowerment and Development ( a 30 year private 501c3 )

While at CEED, she continues to work within her passion of helping women and other minority people start small businesses She has led her team to create programs to assist small businesses. Some of the programs include CEED Capital, a micro-lending program granted that include $1M SBA ILP Provider and most recently led a microloan bridge program with the local city development department that provided loans to 94% minorityowned businesses with 64% of those loans going to women

Before coming to CEED, Suzy spent five years as Director of Operations for the Partnership for Innovation, a business incubation program designed to recruit and establish businesses for the defense sector While there, she managed the $1M annual accelerator program and the financial management of the $10M IDIQ technology lab contract Suzy began her career as a Comptroller for the privately held web hosting company, Advanced Internet Technologies, where she learned how to assist small businesses by giving them tools and resources to resell space on the internet She was a finalist nominee for the 2019 Association of Women Business Centers Leadership Award She was named one of Fayetteville’s 40 under 40 by the Fayetteville Observer in 2014 and took first place at the 2014 Dancing with the Fayetteville