The U.S. Small Business Administration (USSBA) has named J. Douglas Call, president of Virginia Prosthetics , Roanoke, as Virginia’s 2009 Small Business Person of the Year.
Virginia Prosthetics was named the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Roanoke Regional Small Business Development Center’s Small Business of the Year in 2008. The firm will now compete in the SBA’s National Small Business Person of the Year competition. The national winner will be announced in May during National Small Business Week 2009.
“It’s a real honor to have the Roanoke Regional Small Business Development Center’s 2008 Small Business Award winner take the SBA’s Small Business Person of the Year Award for the entire state,” commented Joyce Waugh, president and CEO of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
