Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Staff Listing

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is responsible for monitoring USAID's implementation and execution of the small business programs and advising the Administrator and senior leadership. OSDBU provides guidance, training and outreach support concerning small business participation in USAID procurements.

Please contact us if you have any questions about USAID's small business participation programs (osdbu1@usaid.gov).   

OSDBU 

Kimberly Ball, Director

OSDBU Operations Team

Teneshia Alston,  Acting Deputy Director for Operations (talston@usaid.gov)

• Women Owned Small Business Program

Charles Aycock, Small Business Specialist (caycock@usaid.gov)

• Bureau for Africa
• Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation (IPI)
• Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
• 8(a) Program
• Southern Africa Missions (Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Southern Africa Regional Program)

Kevin Davis, Small Business Specialist (kedavis@usaid.gov)

• Bureau for Management
• Bureau for Planning, Learning and Resource Management
• Office of Policy
• Historically Underutilized Business Zones Program
• West Africa Missions (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Togo) 

Kimberly Mace, Small Business Specialist (kmace@usaid.gov)

• Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization
• Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs
• Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security
• Bureau for the Middle East and Regional Missions 
• Office of Civil Rights
• Office of Inspector General
• Office of Security

Marcus Moon, Small Business Specialist (mmoon@usaid.gov)

• Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance 
• Office of Human Capital and Talent Management
• Office of the Executive Secretariat
• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program
• East Africa Missions (Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, the Central Africa Regional Program)

OSDBU Programs Team

John Watson, Deputy Director for Programs (johwatson@usaid.gov)

Marie Ahmed, Program Officer (mahmed@usaid.gov)

• Bureau for Asia and Regional Missions
• Bureau for Global Health
• Localization
• Small Business Applied Research

Frances Bond, Program Specialist (fbond@usaid.gov)

• Subcontracting Program

Janiere Pereira, Program Specialist (jpereira@usaid.gov) 

• Bureau for Europe and Eurasia and Regional Missions
• Office of the General Counsel
• Office of the Chief Economist

Enrique Steiner, Program Specialist (esteiner@usaid.gov)

• Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and Regional Missions
• Small Business Training​​​