The award was presented during WIPP’s We Decide! conference in Washington, DC. CNN anchor Carol Costello delivered the keynote address and American Express OPEN President Susan Sobbott presented the award to Bisceglie.  Also at the ceremony, OPEN joined WIPP in unveiling the “Give Me 5” program, aimed at increasing the number of women –owned businesses selling to the federal government.

“Jennifer founded her business in 2005, long before the creation of the ‘Give Me 5’ program, and has had to work through the complexity of federal contracting on her own,” said WIPP President Barbara Kasoff.  “Her success is an inspirational example for women entrepreneurs at all levels who want to grow a wonderful and lucrative business by selling to the federal government.”

InTEROS Solutions, Inc., is supply chain and logistics management consulting company that creates comprehensive solutions for government agencies and major corporations.  InTEROS’ services include creating strategic plans, determining operational and structural alternatives, benchmarking against appropriate commercial and public sector best practices, modeling, managing process optimization initiatives and implementing commercial  support technologies.  In 2008, InTEROS will have grown 300% over the previous year and expects similar growth in 2009 with the company’s movement into both the international markets and the Intelligence space.

“The support for women-owned small businesses trying to make their way in the Federal market in non-traditional industries is key to ensuring a robust economy.  I appreciate American Express OPEN’s and WIPP’s recognition of this fact and their leadership in making this happen.”

A strong advocate for women entrepreneurs, Bisceglie actively involved with WIPP as vice president for the organization’s Board of Directors for WIPP, serving on the Board of Advisors, acting as the national chair of the Instant Impact Grassroots Committee and is a National Founding Member. She received the 2007 President’s Award for her work with WIPP. Bisceglie is also WIPP’s Alliance Ambassador for the American Small Business Coalition.

Additionally, Bisceglie is an active member of Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), Women in Defense (WID), on the Executive Logistics Council for NDIA and served on the Board of Directors and as the awards chair for SOLE-the International Society of Logistics Engineers (2006-2007).

Held Sept. 8-9, WIPP’s two-day conference was attended by hundreds of women business entrepreneurs from across the country and included a diverse roster of speakers, including Republican and Democratic Members of Congress, pollsters and representatives from the McCain and Obama campaigns. The conference centered on women entrepreneurs’ strength in the 2008 election and issues challenging women-owned small businesses, such as economic opportunities, health care reforms and federal contracts.

Speakers at this year’s conference included Women for McCain Chair Judy Black, Women for Obama Chair Betsy Myers, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and national pollsters Celinda Lake (D), president of Lake Research Partners, and Kellyanne Conway (R), President and CEO of the polling company, Inc./Woman Trend.

Additionally, WIPP presented the Economic Blueprint: The Women Business Owners Platform for Growth at a public roundtable hosted by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  The Economic Blueprint was created by 30 women’s business organizations as a call to action for Congress and the next administration.  It outlines six critical public policy areas that affect the expansion of women-owned businesses: healthcare, access to capital, energy, procurement, taxes and telecommunications

About Women Impacting Public Policy
Women Impacting Public Policy is a non-profit, national bipartisan group with over half-a-million members.  WIPP is The Collective Voice in Washington, DC, for 46 national women and small business organizations.  WIPP strengthens its members’ sphere of influence in the legislative process, creates economic opportunities for members and builds alliances with other small business organizations.  For more information about WIPP, visit www.wipp.org.

About InTEROS
InTEROS, founded in 2005, is a women’s business enterprise-certified corporation, headquartered in McLean, Va. InTEROS focuses on intelligent, innovative, integrated supply chain and logistics solutions to help clients uncover and implement best practices and processes to improve their logistics practices. The firm provides guidance and/or counseling to support clients’ management, organizational, risk mitigation and business improvement efforts.  What differentiates InTEROS is its ability to assess an existing supply chain from both strategic and operational levels, defining the analysis requirements that lead to an effective improvement roadmap, and seeing the secure, scalable and reliable solution become reality through implementation. For more information, please contact InTEROS Solutions, Inc. at 703-677-3135, info@interos.net or go to www.interos.net.