FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Chicago, Illinois
June 13, 2007 - OnShore Technology Group, leading
Chicago-based provider of marketing, engineering and
I.T. services, today announced that CEO Valarie
King-Bailey will be honored as a finalist for the first
ever Madam C.J. Walker Business Achievement award. The
award will be announced at the 1st Annual Madam C.J.
Walker Award Celebration and Business Symposium at the
Madam C.J. Walker Theatre in Indianapolis.
Madam C.J. Walker set the standard of the ideal female
entrepreneur. She was a highly successful entrepreneur,
widely considered to be the first African-American
female millionaire. Walker was known and respected not
only for her business acumen but for her inspirational
political and social advocacy and her philanthropy. As
the daughter of former slaves, Walker worked initially
as a washerwoman until she devised a hair care and
grooming system to meet the needs of African-American
women in 1905. The Madam C.J. Walker Business
Achievement Award is intended to recognize exceptional
women of color and their business achievements in the
spirit of Madam C.J. Walker.
Ms. King-Bailey has been a pioneer throughout her 26
year career in engineering and business. In 1982, she
became the first Afro-American female graduate from the
College of Engineering at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Valarie quickly rose through the
ranks gaining international executive experience and
industry recognition with leading organizations such as
Abbott Laboratories, Intergraph Corporation,
EMC/Documentum and U.S. Steel which led her to the
pinnacle of her career as CEO of OnShore Technology
Group. OnShore Engineering has the distinction as one of
a handful of Afro-American, female-owned engineering
companies in the U.S. Valarie holds a B.S. in Civil and
Environmental Engineering and an M.B.A. in Information
Systems from Keller Graduate School of Management.
Upon acceptance of the honor as a finalist, Valarie
commented, "I am deeply honored and humbled to be
considered as a finalist for this great honor. Madam
C.J. Walker is the standard-bearer for all women of
color. The greatest joy was being their with her
great-great granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles and shaking
hands with history", said Valarie.
Valarie King-Bailey will be featured in the June issue
of the Minorities and Women in Business Magazine along
with the award winner.
ABOUT ONSHORE TECHNOLOGY GROUP
OnShore Technology Group was founded
in 2004 as a multi-disciplined engineering, I.T., and
marketing services firm dedicated to helping companies
leverage advanced technology solutions across the
enterprise. OnShore Technology Group is a
Microsoft Certified Partner organization and is
certified as a WBE/MBE/DBE firm nationwide.
Through its innovative "RightSourcing" business model,
OnShore Technology Group offers a comprehensive
portfolio of professional engineering, IT, and marketing
services for in wind energy, transportation design and
engineering, and enterprise compliance management
solutions for life sciences including software
validation services and other solutions exclusively for
government and commercial clients. OnShore
Technology Group is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
E-mail:
info@onshoretech.com