[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 953-954]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 COMMENDING DR. WINSLOW SARGEANT, CHIEF COUNSEL OF THE SMALL BUSINESS 
ADMINISTRATION'S OFFICE OF ADVOCACY FOR HIS SERVICE UPON HIS RETIREMENT

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                         HON. YVETTE D. CLARKE

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 21, 2015

  Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay respect to 
Dr. Winslow Sargeant who is retiring as Chief Counsel for Advocacy of 
the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy.
  Appointed in August of 2010, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. 
Sargeant during the last three Congressional Sessions while a member of 
the House Small Business Committee. He has brought his expertise to 
bear in helping solve issues facing small businesses and entrepreneurs 
in my district and across the country as they navigated the most 
difficult economy our country has experienced in nearly a century.

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  Dr. Sargeant knows the challenges of starting and building a small 
firm. He enrolled in a PhD Program at the University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, in 1988 and left in 1992 to work at IBM in Rochester, 
Minnesota. He received his PhD in electrical engineering in 1995, and 
worked at ATT/Bell Labs in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1997, Dr. 
Sargeant and partners co-founded Aanetcom, a ``fabless'' semiconductor 
integrated circuit design company. The company designed state-of-the-
art computer circuits for telecom and broadband applications. In March 
2000, Aanetcom was acquired by PMC-Sierra, a publicly traded company.
  Prior to becoming chief counsel, Dr. Sargeant served as managing 
director of Venture Investors, LLC, in Madison, Wisconsin. The firm 
provided seed and early-stage money to high-potential health care and 
IT companies. There, he specialized in computer software, hardware, and 
materials, and worked with technology transfer offices.
  As Chief Counsel, he brought years of experience as a federal partner 
to small firms. From 2001 to 2005, he was program manager in 
electronics for the National Science Foundation's Small Business 
Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, while also serving as adjunct 
professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The NSF is one of the 
federal agencies with the largest extramural research and development 
budgets that are required in the SBIR program to dedicate a portion of 
their awards to small firms.
  On behalf of the small business community of the 9th District of 
Brooklyn, I'd like to thank and congratulate Dr. Sargeant, his wife 
Ikanyeng and three children, Kgosi, Lorato, and Marang and wish them 
many blessings in the future.

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