Natalie Coefield is the president and CEO of Association for Enterprise Opportunity. An award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, economic development executive and nationally regarded expert for small business and has been named one of the most powerful women in business by Entrepreneur Magazine. She is a former presidentially appointed Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration where she advised on the deployment of $1.2 trillion in funding and was the co-architect of the SBA’s Community Navigator Pilot Program, which provided $200M in funding to ecosystems and entrepreneurs throughout the country during the greatest economic crisis in modern history.