Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Staff Listing

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is responsible for monitoring USAID's implementation and execution of the small business programs and advising the Administrator and senior leadership. OSDBU provides guidance, training and outreach support concerning small business participation in USAID procurements.

Please contact us if you have any questions about USAID's small business participation programs (osdbu1@usaid.gov or 202-916-4220).  

OSDBU Leadership

Kimberly Ball, Director

Jamala Peyton, Deputy Director for Operations (japeyton@usaid.gov )

John Watson, Deputy Director for Programs (johwatson@usaid.gov)

OSDBU Operations Team  

Teneshia Alston, Small Business Goaling Manager, talston@usaid.gov, (202) 916-2553

• Office of the Administrator  
• Office of the Executive Secretariat  
• Office of the General Counsel  
• Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs  
• Small Business Goaling Manager 
• Communications Coordinator 
• Congressional Liaison
• Women Owned Small Business Program 

Charles Aycock, Small Business Specialist, caycock@usaid.gov, (202) 714-8950

• Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation  
• Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance  
• Bureau for Africa  
• 8(a) Program  

Kevin Davis, Small Business Specialist, kedavis@usaid.gov, (202) 916-2543

• Bureau for Management  
• Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning  
• Historically Underutilized Business Zones Program 

Kimberly Mace, Small Business Specialist, kmace@usaid.gov, (202) 340-2455

• Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization  
• Human Capital and Talent Management  
• Office of Civil Rights and Diversity  
• Office of Security
• Service-Disabled Veteran Programs

Nkechi Mogekwu, Communications Specialist-Contractor, nmogekwu@usaid.gov, (202) 372-7172

OSDBU Programs Team  

Frances Bond, Acting Subcontracting Program Manager, fbond@usaid.gov, (202) 916-2552

• Global Health  
• Office of Civil Rights and Diversity  
• Southern Africa Missions (Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini,  Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Southern Africa Regional Program)

 Edward Encarnacion, Management and Data Analyst, eencarnacion@usaid.gov, (202) 916-2551

Shemaura Palmer, Program Support Specialist, spalmer@usaid.gov, (240) 244-7976

Enrique Steiner, Small Business Program Training Coordinator, esteiner@usaid.gov, (202) 916-2546

• Bureau for Asia and Regional Missions 
• Bureau for Europe and Eurasia and Regional Missions 
• Bureau for the Middle East and Regional Missions 
• Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and Regional Missions
• West Africa Missions (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,  Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, The Gambia, and Togo, and the West  Africa Region)  

Vacant

• Bureau for Resilience and Food Security  
• East Africa Missions (Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, the Central Africa Regional Program)