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Overview
SBA's Administrator appoints 50 small business owners from different regions nationwide to serve on the Regional Regulatory Fairness Boards.
The National Ombudsman’s office helps coordinate the boards' activities and connects small businesses to available resources so they can get the help they need.
Minutes and transcripts
To view the minutes from the Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Regulatory Fairness Board Meeting, visit facadatabase.gov.
If you’d like a transcript for our National Hearing on the Impact of Joint Ventures for Increasing Small Business Participation in Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOCs) or need any additional information, please reach out to us at ombudsman@sba.gov.
Board members
Erick Valderrama is the President of CDC Group & Associates, a consultant, development, and general contracting firm in the acquisition, operation, and development of multifamily housing throughout Florida. He is a South Florida native who has provided development and construction management services for the last 30 years. Mr. Valderrama has successfully completed many large complex construction projects throughout many of the industry’s market sector spectrums from high-rises to sports stadiums.
Brian Tretter has led Seufert Construction Company, a family-owned business, general contractor and development company for over 25 years. The company's mission is "to build success for our customers, our employees and their communities.” His team of 50 professionals serves a wide geographic area across Southern Indiana and is active in real estate development and leasing. He graduated from Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business. Throughout his career, Mr. Tretter has been very involved in the community and continues to serve on various boards and committees.
Matt Greene is the founder and CEO of MAVericks Aligned, a service-disabled and veteran-owned construction company. The MAVericks’ mission is to assist military vets and provide high-quality craftsmanship, unparalleled customer service, and unquestionable integrity to the customers they serve. MAVericks evolved from a handyman business to a full-service general contractor with in-house professional engineering capabilities that delivers home and facility design, repair, and construction services to the residential, commercial, and government sectors. Mr. Green served in the military from 1993-2016 and received a MS from the University of Tennessee and a BS from the United States Air Force Academy.
After leaving military service, Todd Baldwin founded Red Leg Brewing Company in Colorado Springs, CO in 2013. Since inception, Red Leg has become one of the largest providers of craft beer in Southern Colorado. The company started out making 30 gallons of beer a day and now sells over 35,000 cases of beer annually. Baldwin has distinguished himself within the community having received the Southern Colorado Rising Star Award in 2014, the Colorado Springs Mayor Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2016, the Colorado Companies to Watch Award in 2020, the Colorado Springs Gazette Veteran Owned Business of the Year. Red Leg is also a two-time World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Fest Medaling Brewery.
Douglas Hackler is the President and CEO of American Semiconductor which is a semiconductor manufacturing service provider that specializes in development and production of thin substrates, IC packaging, and chip-on-flex assembly. The company is a global provider of a complete range of services for thin electronic system manufacturing. In addition, Mr. Hackler is the inventor of SoP advanced WLCSP process, 20 patents/pat.
Get involved
If you’re a small business owner and would like to get involved with the regional boards, we encourage you to apply by emailing us at ombudsman@sba.gov for an application.
See a list of former Regional Regulatory Fairness Boards members.
