Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Staff Listing

The contacts listed below can provide overall information on the U.S. Agency for International Development bureaus, Independent Offices, and Missions. These individuals generally do not make purchases for the agency.

OSDBU Operations Team

Teneshia Alston, Acting Deputy Director

Charles Aycock, Small Business Specialist

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

Kevin Davis, Small Business Specialist

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

Edward Encarnacion, Management and Data Analyst

Margaret Hunt, Secretary

• General Small Business Program Inquiry

Shemaura Palmer, Program Support Specialist

• Small Business Market Analysis Research Tool (SB-MART)
• Small Business Review Forms

Kimberly Mace, Small Business Specialist

• Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization
• Human Capital and Talent Management
• Office of Civil Rights and Diversity
• Office of Security

OSDBU Programs Team

John Watson, Deputy Director

Teneshia Alston, Small Business Goaling Program

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

Frances Bond, SB-MART Coordinator

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

Harry Parker, Ph.D., Subcontracting Program Manager

• 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)
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program

Enrique Steiner, Small Business Program Training Coordinator

• 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 Regional Program)

Additional Resources

• How to Work with USAID Webinar
• USAID Business Forecast
• USAID Mission Directory