Sandy K. Baruah is an
American politician from the state of
Oregon and is currently the president and chief executive officer of the .
Biography
Sandy Baruah served as President
George W. Bush’s last (acting) Administrator of the
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). In this role, he was responsible for the SBA’s $18 billion small business loan portfolio.
Prior to leading the SBA, Baruah served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce. In this role he led the federal government’s domestic economic development program, the
Economic Development Administration (EDA), served as the Senior Advisor to Commerce Secretary
Carlos M. Gutierrez regarding the
2010 Census and represented the U.S. at the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in
Paris, France. Baruah led the development and implementation of the Agency’s award winning balanced scorecard.
Prior to his service in the
Bush Administration, Baruah was a corporate mergers and acquisitions consultant for the Performance Consulting Group. He also served in the Administration of
President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993) and was on the staff of U.S. Senator
Bob Packwood (Oregon).
After leaving his most recent government service in early 2009, he was a Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a
Washington, D.C. – based think tank composed exclusively of corporate CEOs, university...
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