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Ingrid M. Robinson President, Houston Minority Supplier Development Council plier Diversity efforts. Robinson has now come full circle to lead the organization she once served as Assistant Director for in the mid 1990’s, when the Council was known as the Houston Minority Business Council (HMBC). While at the HMBC, she played an integral part in helping HMBC receive its first Council of the Year Award in 1999 from the National Minority Supplier Development Council. Now, she returns to the organization as it is awarded its 7th National Council of the Year Award for 2016. Robinson also served in various city and state governmental positions including terms in the City of Houston’s Mayor’s Office for Affirmative Action, the office of Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis, and the offices of Texas State Representatives Garnet Coleman and former Texas State Representative now US Congressman Henry Cuellar.
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ngrid M. Robinson is the President of the Houston Minority Supplier Development Council (HMSDC). HMSDC is a business development organization designed to actively involve its members, both minority business enterprises and major corporations in efforts to increase and expand business opportunities and business growth for Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) while driving excellence in supplier diversity and supplier development. Currently, HMSDC’s membership is comprised of more than 130 major corporations and close to 600 minority businesses. HMSDC MBEs have a total economic impact of $22.8 billion dollars on the economy with over $17.1 billion
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Robinson received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from the University of Houston and completed the Community Minority Business Advancement Program at the University of Texas – McCombs School of Business. She graduated in May of 2010 with an Exdollars in annual revenue that results in ecutive Masters of Business Administrathe creation and/or preservation of more tion degree from Rice University. She has than 67,000 jobs. two teenage children, John-Anthony and Robinson is a former entrepreneur, own- Sydni. ing a small management consulting firm and has served as the Director of State Ingrid M. Robinson and Local Government Affairs for Hal- President liburton. In her role at Haliburton, she Houston Minority Supplier developed political strategies to promote Development Council and protect the interests and competi- Three Riverway, Suite 555 tiveness of Halliburton, its affiliates, and Houston, TX 77056 its individual facilities. 713-271-7805 Prior to assuming that role, she utilized Ingrid.Robinson@hmsdc.org her fifteen years of experience in minority www.hmsdc.org and women business development that includes private, government, and nonprofit sectors to lead Halliburton’s Sup-
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