Pamela Lankford

Pamela Lankford is the Director of the Building Bridges to Careers Epicenter — A Youth and Entrepreneurial Development Center. Previously she served with the Ohio Small Business Development Center in Marietta for 26 years. Her passion is helping entrepreneurs realize their dreams. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Marietta College where she double majored in Entrepreneurship and Spanish. She received her MBA from Ohio University. She is also a Certified Business Analyst and was named 1999 and 2001 Director of the Year and 2001 Innovator of the Year for the Ohio SBDC Network as well as Ohio’s State Star for 2005. She has also been an adjunct faculty member at Marietta College, teaching marketing classes, as well as Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Business Consulting. She has also been actively involved in two small family owned businesses.