Karen Kerrigan Bio — President & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

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A biography of Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. It states that for twenty-five years her leadership, advocacy and training work has helped foster U.S. entrepreneurship and global small business growth, and that she regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress. It lists federal advisory boards to which she has been appointed, including the National Women's Business Council, the U.S. Treasury's Taxpayer Advisory Panel and the National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of U.S. Free Trade Agreements. It also states that she chairs the Small Business Roundtable, a coalition of small business and entrepreneurship organizations.

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                                     Karen Kerrigan
                                          Bio

For twenty-five years Karen Kerrigan’s leadership, advocacy and training work has helped foster
U.S. entrepreneurship and global small business growth. She is president & CEO of the Small
Business & Entrepreneurship Council, and is the group’s chief advocate for its members.


Kerrigan regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress on the key issues impacting entrepreneurs
and the economy, and has been appointed to numerous federal advisory boards including
the National Women’s Business Council, the U.S.-Iraq Business Dialog, the U.S. Treasury’s
Taxpayer Advisory Panel, and the National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of U.S.
Free Trade Agreements. Kerrigan regularly engages with the President’s cabinet and key
advisors, and has spoken or led roundtables at several White House economic summits, scores of
events hosted by the Small Business Administration, U.S. Treasury Department and other federal
government agencies and departments. Kerrigan is a collaborative and well-respected individual
within the advocacy and business community who has led numerous coalitions and initiatives
with diverse partners and organizations. Kerrigan chairs the Small Business Roundtable, a
coalition of leading small business and entrepreneurship organizations dedicated to advancing
policy, securing access and promoting inclusion to benefit the businesses at the heart of the
American economy. She has written hundreds of Op-Eds and newspaper columns, and regularly
appears on national television and talk radio programs. Accolades for Karen’s work.


She has been called America’s “entrepreneurial envoy” and “small business ambassador” for her
extensive speaking, knowledge sharing and capacity-building work overseas. Kerrigan is a
founding member of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, and has provided counsel to
governments and business associations across the globe regarding entrepreneurial development,
capacity building, policy formation and implementation. She has traveled to Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Israel, Morocco, Nepal, the Palestinian territories, among many other
nations on behalf of the U.S. State Department to work with business leaders, women
entrepreneurs, young leaders and entrepreneurs, and government officials on reforms and
programs to encourage entrepreneurship and small business growth. Kerrigan is a board member
and former Chair of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), one of the core
institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, which works to strengthen democracy
around the globe through private enterprise and market oriented reforms.
BizTech Magazine named Kerrigan to its 2020 Small Business Influencer IT List in November
2020. In July 2018, Kerrigan was named to Fit Small Business’s “Top Small Business
Influencers of 2018.” She was presented with the “Crowdfundie Award” at the 2017 Global
Crowdfunding Convention for her leadership and advocacy on crowdfunding issues. In
November of 2017, the Global IP Center of the U.S. Chamber presented Kerrigan with its
“Excellence in Advocacy” award for her work on strengthening IP protections, and for her
advocacy and outreach regarding the importance of IP for the growth of small businesses and
entrepreneurship. In 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 she was named a Top 100 Champion Small
Business Influencer by Small Business Trends. CEO World Magazine named Kerrigan a “Top
Power Woman in Crowdfunding” (November 2013), and in May 2016 she was presented with
the New Capital Markets Leadership Award by the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory
Advocates (CFIRA) and Crowdfund Capital Advisors for her steadfast leadership and work in
making equity and debt-based crowdfunding legal. In November of 2009 Kerrigan was awarded
the “Small Business Advocate of the Year” by the NY Enterprise Report. Among media
accolades, Inc. Magazine named Kerrigan to its small business “Best Friends in D.C.” (2006) list
as a “power broker and activist” with “serious clout” for entrepreneurs; Fortune Small
Business to its “Power 30” list (2000); and The Hill newspaper to its “most influential small
business” list (2006) describing Kerrigan as “the hardest working woman in show business.” In
1995, National Journal named Kerrigan to its short list of “K Street” activists most likely to have
an impact on Capitol Hill. Campaigns and Elections Magazine named her as one of its “Rising
Stars in Politics” in its April 1996 issue. She lectures frequently at colleges and universities,
making appearances at Harvard Business School, Georgetown University, University of
Maryland, Ohio State University and many others including institutions outside of the United
States.


Kerrigan graduated from SUNY Cortland with a B.A. in Political Science, and resides in
Northern Virginia with her family.


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