November 30, 2009 - Westminster, MD

Karen Barbour Featured in the Gazette of Politics and Business

Maryland Karen Barbour, president and founder of The Barbour Group, LLC, was featured by The Gazette of Politics and Business as one of 44 dynamic “Women Business Leaders of Maryland.” The November 2009 issue offered a prestigious list of outstanding women entrepreneurs that represented what it considered “some of the sharpest minds representing some of our state’s most ‘well rounded’ companies and organizations.”

Ms. Barbour has led The Barbour Group to achieve success in providing surety bonds for the construction industry in more than 30 states and three international countries. She established the company in 2002 as an independent insurance agency focusing on construction bonding and commercial insurance. Through her leadership, the company has initiated, authored and driven landmark legislation in Maryland and on Capitol Hill to open up the barriers to bonding faced by many small business contractors."To be featured by The Gazette of Politics and Business for supporting the construction industry and finding solutions to enable progress for small business is a great honor," says Karen Barbour.

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