[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15376]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 NOMINATION OF WINSLOW LORENZO SARGEANT

  Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, today the Senate Committee on Small 
Business and Entrepreneurship favorably reported out the President's 
nomination of Dr. Winslow Lorenzo Sargeant to serve as Chief Counsel 
for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.
  I am pleased that President Obama nominated such a talented 
individual to this top position at the SBA. His confirmation will 
complete the SBA's exceptional leadership team.
  As Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Dr. Winslow Sargeant brings a unique 
background to this very important position. With a Ph.D. from the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison in electrical engineering and a 
background as a very successful small business owner, he is not only 
well-educated but well-educated about the challenges facing small 
businesses today.
  He is the former managing director of Venture Investors, a Midwest 
venture capital company with a concentration on starting up healthcare 
and technology companies. From 2001 to 2005, he served as a program 
manager for SBIR in electronics at the National Science Foundation. He 
has also worked at IBM as a staff engineer, at AT&T as technical staff, 
and as an associate adjunct professor at the University of 
Pennsylvania.
  With capable leaders such as Dr. Sargeant at the helm, the agency is 
more than ready to continue to play an important role in assisting 
small businesses as they lead this country to an economic recovery. We 
look forward to continuing to work with them and to a new era for the 
SBA and American small businesses.

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