SILS alumna wins business award

The Maryland Governor's Office of Minority Affairs and the Maryland Daily Record awarded Vesselina Stoytcheva (MSLS '99) one of Maryland 's Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise awards in September.

The MBE awards recognize exceptional minority and women business owners in Maryland for their achievements in client satisfaction, business development, professional affiliations and community involvement. Stoytcheva and her company, VNS Group, Inc., were selected from more than 200,000 eligible businesses for this year's award.

Stoytcheva is president and CEO of VNS Group, a firm specializing in library, information and records management. VNS Group assists government agencies, other institutions and businesses in their efforts to provide library services and implement records management programs in support of their mission. They analyze and organize information in different formats, in English and in foreign languages and provide translation services as well.

Stoytcheva and the other MBE award winners were recognized at a ceremony on Oct. 27 at the University of Maryland-University College in Adelphi, Maryland.

The MBE award is not the first honor Stoytcheva and VNS group have won. In March, they received the 2006 Charles County Minority Business of the Year Award.

Stoytcheva earned her degree from SILS in 1999 after completing her master's paper: “A model business plan for a small information brokering firm named V&S International.”