Beverly Kuykendall, Corporate Membership Consultant

As Corporate Membership Consultant for NaVOBA, Beverly Kuykendall vehemently promotes the use of veteran-owned suppliers to large corporations. Beverly comes with extensive supplier diversity experience. Much of her time is spent in Washington DC, where she meets with members of Congress, presidential appointees and the Small Business Administration on behalf of small veteran, women and minority-owned businesses.

Beverly brings nearly 20 years of experience in logistics, distribution, sales and marketing management with such firms as Procter and Gamble, American Hospital Supply, Herman Miller, and Xerox. In her role as President of FCCi, Beverly develops federal contracting mechanisms for large firms in a variety of industries. She also spent nearly 10 years as co-owner and Executive Vice President of Management Healthcare Products and Services, a medical products distribution firm. An accomplished and highly sought after speaker, Beverly has served as keynote speaker and panelist for a number of government agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense (DOD), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the General Services Administration (GSA).

Co-founder, immediate past president and member of the board of directors for the National Minority Medical Suppliers Association; Ms. Kuykendall has served on the Board of the American Cancer Society in the Central Los Angeles Unit, the Business Advisory Council for Cal Poly University at Pomona, and a member of the Board of the National Healthcare Alliance. Her study and interpretation of Federal Regulations has led to the design of creative procurement mechanisms. She is most proud of the work she has done with United States Aid for International Development for projects in Egypt in which she worked to furnish new medical centers with capital equipment.

Ms. Kuykendall has a BS Degree in Business Management from Cal Poly and an MBA from Pepperdine University