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National Winner

SCORE Northern Maine led by David Green  

 

Regional Winners

Northeast Region

SCORE Northern Maine led by David Green and District Director Nancy Strojny

Mid-Atlantic Region

SCORE Washington DC led by Jon Heimerman and District Director Gary Salisbury

Southwest Region

SCORE Austin led by Shannon Black and District Director Robert Paino

Central Region

SCORE SE Michigan led by Mike Marchand and District Director Jennifer Aspy

Southeast Region

SCORE North Metro Atlanta led by Roman Ptakowski and District Director Stan Segal

North Midwest Region

SCORE Greater Seattle led by Suvendoo Ray and District Director Larry Spelhaug

West Region

SCORE Silicon Valley led by Arik Paran and District Director Susan Lundy

 

 

District Winners

Northeast Region

District	Chapter	Led By
District 101: Massachusetts/Rhode Island	SCORE Southeast Massachusetts	Kathleen Almand and Peter Smith
District 156: Connecticut	SCORE Western Connecticut​	Matthew Krieger and David Rich
District 172: Maine	SCORE Northern Maine	David Green
District 189: New Hampshire/Vermont	SCORE Vermont​	Peter Stein and Terry Zysk
District 202: New York Metro Area	SCORE New York City	Osy Harrison and Neil Goldenberg
District 203: Hudson Valley	SCORE Putnam County	Salvatore Gambino, George Joiner, and Jean Zappia
District 248: Upstate New York	SCORE Central New York	Dennis Slattery

 

 

Mid-Atlantic Region 

District	Chapter	Led By
District 299: New Jersey	SCORE Central Jersey	Nancy Verduin
District 303: Eastern Pennsylvania/Delaware	SCORE Lehigh Valley	Girish Sud
District 304: Virginia	SCORE Williamsburg	Peter LePage and Roy Madsen
District 358: Western Pennsylvania	SCORE Pittsburgh	Tomas Richter
District 373: Greater Chesapeake/Potomac	SCORE Washington, DC	Jon Heimerman

Southeast Region

District	Chapter	Led By
District 405: Georgia	SCORE North Metro Atlanta​	Roman Ptakowski
District 455: Southeast Florida	SCORE Broward	George Gremse
District 460: North Carolina	SCORE Western NC	Michael Dexter-Smith
District 474: Tennessee	SCORE Nashville	Lisa Odell
District 480: Southwest Florida	SCORE Naples	Kathy Heldman
District 491: North/Central Florida	SCORE Orlando	Lois Perry

Central Region

District	Chapter	Led By
District 507: Illinois	SCORE Chicago	Steven Mayer
District 515: Michigan	SCORE SE Michigan	Mike Marchand
District 549: Ohio	SCORE Dayton	Mike McCracken and Martha Taylor
District 562: Indiana/Kentucky	SCORE Northeast Indiana	Andrew Roberts
District 563: Wisconsin	SCORE SE Wisconsin	Stewart Brase and Michael Comiskey
District 736: Iowa	SCORE East Central Iowa	Carolyn Tonn

Southwest Region 

District	Chapter	Led By
District 610: North Texas	SCORE Dallas	William Little
District 679: Louisiana	SCORE New Orleans	Willie Johnson and Kim Keene
District 680: Arkansas/Oklahoma	SCORE Tulsa	William Griggs
District 681: Central/South Texas	SCORE Austin	Shannon Black

North Midwest Region

District	Chapter	Led By
District 709: Missouri/Kansas	SCORE Kansas City	Geoff Meiteen and Karen Foelsch
District 766: Nebraska	SCORE Greater Omaha	Allan Hale
District 811: New Mexico/Colorado/Wyoming	SCORE Albuquerque	DJ Hecks
District 1013: Washington	SCORE Greater Seattle	Suvendoo Ray
District 1086: Oregon	SCORE Central Oregon	James Darcey
District 1087: Idaho/Montana	SCORE Idaho	Martin Ackerman

West Region

District	Chapter	Led By
District 912: Northern California Coastal	SCORE Silicon Valley	Xuan He, Bill Oakes, and Arik Paran
District 914: Southern California Coastal	SCORE Ventura County	Glen Sumrell, Danielle Malconian and Peter Scifres
District 920: Southern California/Hawaii	SCORE Orange County	Amin Khalifa and Peter Riley
District 944: Nevada	SCORE Northern Nevada (Reno)	David Sinclair

 

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