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Teresa Lewis
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


Teresa is a member of the Senior Executive Service. She assumed her duties as the Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), Department Health and Human Services, on November 6, 2011. Teresa is responsible for implementing and managing the Department’s small business program. She is responsible for ensuring that all small businesses have the “maximum practicable opportunity” to participate in providing goods and services to the Department of Health and Human Services. As OSDBU Director at the Department of the Treasury, March 30, 2008 – November 5, 2011, Teresa ensured that small businesses were able to market their goods and services; and receive their fair share of contracting opportunities. Under Teresa’s leadership, Treasury met four of its five prime contrac- ting goals in Fiscal Year 2010 and all of its prime contracting goals in Fiscal Year 2011, including goals for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and small businesses located in historically under-utilized business zones (HUBZone).

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