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  • ACE Women’s Business Center Named SBA’s 2022 Center of Excellence Award Winner

    ACE Women’s Business Center Named SBA’s 2022 Center of Excellence Award Winner

    We are pleased to announce that the Women’s Business Center – Metro Atlanta of ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurship has been selected as the recipient of the SBA’s Women’s Business Center of the Year Excellence Award for 2022. Winning resource partners are chosen by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in recognition of their…

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  • Client Spotlight: Modern Podiatry, LLC

    A Fayetteville, GA native, Dr. Kibibi Wanzu, DPM is a caring and compassionate podiatrist specializing in diabetic foot care, sports podiatry, and aesthetic procedures. Her practice, Modern Podiatry, provides medical and surgical management of foot, ankle and leg conditions for patients of all ages in clinical, in-patient and outpatient hospital, and nursing home settings. After…

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  • Atlanta Rapper DEANTE’ HITCHCOCK Partners with ACE Women’s Business Center to Help Women Business Owners Succeed

    Atlanta Rapper DEANTE’ HITCHCOCK Partners with ACE Women’s Business Center to Help Women Business Owners Succeed

    Atlanta, Georgia, March 16, 2022 – Today, Grammy-nominated Atlanta rapper Deante’ Hitchcock announces the launch of The Mother God Project in partnership with local nonprofit Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc. (ACE) Women’s Business Center. Powered by Deante’ Hitchcock, The Mother God Project will provide assistance to 100 women within his community in order to…

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  • Staff Spotlight: Misty McCrackin

    Staff Spotlight: Misty McCrackin

    Misty McCrackin is a Loan Operations Specialist.  She comes to ACE with 21 years of banking experience serving in various roles, with 19 years as a Loan Assistant.  She serves as the treasurer of her church and love spending time with family.  “I love working at ACE because of the company vision and being able…

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  • Staff Spotlight: Meet Chris Clay

    Staff Spotlight: Meet Chris Clay

    Commercial Loan Officer, ACE Chris Clay describes himself as an advocate of equitable communities and a highly motivated change agent. ACE is fortunate that he joined us in June of 2021 as a Commercial Loan Officer to help with our mission of serving Georgia businesses. In his early career, Chris was searching for the best…

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  • KindTouch Healthcare Services, LLC

    KindTouch Healthcare Services, LLC

    In 2003 after being a registered nurse for a few years, Dr. Blessing Agu became a mother of twin girls, one of which was born with respiratory and GI issues. In that moment, Dr. Agu realized how difficult it was for other parents who had to go through a similar struggle with their own children…

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  • ACE Welcomes Newest Board Member, Miguel Alandete

    ACE Welcomes Newest Board Member, Miguel Alandete

    Mr. Miguel Alandete has joined the board of directors at ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs. Alandete is the Senior Vice President – SBA Lending Sales Manager at First Horizon Bank in Atlanta, where he oversees a dedicated team of eight SBA product specialists that provide government guaranteed lending products such as the SBA…

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  • Eric Swilling Appointed Director of Lending

    Eric Swilling Appointed Director of Lending

    We are pleased to announce that Mr. Eric Swilling has joined the leadership team as the Director of Lending at ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs. Swilling supervises the lending team and oversees loan production, ensuring that goals of capital deployment and programmatic impact are met. He uses his relationship building skills to lead…

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