About Us

Rieva Lesonsky, Founder & CEO: Rieva Lesonsky has over 25 years of experience serving the SMB market. An award-winning entrepreneurship expert and speaker, Lesonsky has worked with B-to-B marketers including Bank of America, HP, Microsoft, Toshiba, The UPS Stores and many others to help them develop marketing strategies to reach the SMB customer. In addition, Lesonsky has appeared as a small-business expert on “Oprah,” “Good Morning America,” “Martha Stewart,” “Fox Business News,” and the “Today Show,” as well as numerous radio shows, and is a regular guest on MSNBC’s “Your Business.” Before co-founding GrowBiz Media in 2008, she was Editorial Director of Entrepreneur Magazine and various other Entrepreneur editorial products for more than 25 years. The author of the bestselling book Start Your Own Business, in 2009 she was named to Folio Magazine’s annual Folio: 40 list of the top influencers in the publishing industry.

Maria Valdez Haubrich, Chief Liaison Officer: Maria Valdez Haubrich is former Executive Editor of Entrepreneur Magazine, where she worked for over 20 years. At Entrepreneur, she served as key liaison between the editorial department and B-to-B marketers, developing custom publications, online content and other editorial products to help B-to-B marketers reach the SMB audience. She also coordinated production for the magazine and for various custom publishing products.

Karen Axelton, Chief Content Officer: Karen Axelton is former Executive Editor of Entrepreneur Magazine and former Editor of Entrepreneur.com. She has been tracking small-business trends for more than 20 years. As Executive Editor, she oversaw content development for the magazine and for other Entrepreneur Media publications. A former marketing copywriter, Axelton has ghostwritten several small-business books.

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Corporate Offices:
4067 Hardwick St., #296
Lakewood, CA 90712
Phone (714) 556-2000
Fax (714) 389-7411

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