Geri Swift

Oliver Turman, acting executive director, AT&T global supplier diversity, presents the Advocate award to Geri Swift, founding president, WBDC.
Geri Swift is the founder and president of the Philadelphia-based Women’s Business Development Center, an organization that fosters the development and retention of successful businesses by delivering resources that enable individuals to start new businesses and grow existing ones. To date, WBDC has served more than 26,000 individuals — changing the lives of women and their communities. In 2000, under Swift’s leadership, the WBDC expanded its mission to facilitate the relationship between corporations, government and WBEs by creating the Women’s Business Enterprise Council serving Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey.