Fairfax to keynote MBL annual expo
7/14/2017, 10:32 a.m.
Justin Fairfax, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia, will be the keynote speaker at the Metropolitan Business League’s 2017 RVA LinkUp Expo on Wednesday, July 26.
The expo will be held 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of Richmond’s Jepson Alumni Center, 49 Crenshaw Way, on the campus.
The annual event connects small, women-owned and minority businesses in Central Virginia with corporate and government supply chain managers for meeting and networking.
“We are really excited to have such a dynamic keynote speaker like Justin Fairfax who, among many other things, is also a small business owner,” Sharon Dabney-Wooldridge, the MBL’s interim executive director, stated in a news release.
“Many of our major corporate sponsors and members are participating and they are looking for SWaM-owned companies to do business with.”
Tickets are $30 for MBL members and $50 for non-members.
For information and tickets, go to http://aap.events/RVALinkUp or call (804) 649-7473.