SourceLink

Rob Williams is director at SourceLink. In this role, Rob helps a variety of communitiesfrom mid-sized cities to entire statesbuild and improve their entrepreneurial infrastructure. He has extensive experience in project management, including the successful implementations of SourceLink consulting and technologies in the City of Baltimore, commonwe... alth of Puerto Rico, as well as Denver, Seattle, Phoenix, Tampa Bay and Dallas/Fort Worth. Before joining SourceLink, Rob spent nearly a decade at the University of Northern Iowa Center for Business Growth and Innovation where he led and expanded statewide several different entrepreneurship support programs. Preeminent examples include the Iowa Business Concierge, Dream Big Grow Here business grant program and an EDA-funded Entrepreneurial Regions Project, where he trained rural economic developers in how to create and facilitate entrepreneurially-supportive ecosystems. In collaboration with the Iowa Economic Development Authority, Rob was the University of Northern Iowa co-manager of the IASourceLink initiative, a statewide affiliate of SourceLink launched in 2012. In this role, he helped advance its mission of connecting Iowa entrepreneurs and small businesses to more than 360 resource providers across the state. Prior to his work with IASourceLink, Rob served as a small business development center business consultant for the University of Northern Iowa helping diverse entrepreneurs start and grow their firms in the urban core of Waterloo, Iowa and in surrounding rural communities. Maria Meyers, like the organization she leads, is entrepreneurial about supporting entrepreneurs. She has more than 20 years of experience in creating successful companies in the high technology, biotechnology, manufacturing and museum industries. She has lived through the struggles of launching a startup, turning it into a small business and sustaining its growth. As founder of KCSourceLink, Maria created a network that connects entrepreneurs with hundreds of business-building ...Read More