Maureen Collins-Williams
Director - Regional Business Center

Education
B.A. (Public Adminstration) University of Northern Iowa; Certified trainer.

Responsibilities
Director of the University of Northern Iowa Regional Business Center in Waterloo, Iowa,  Collins-Williams has worked in the small business development field since 1982. She served as a program manager for ‘Main Street’ downtown revitalization programs in three Iowa communities and was certified in 1994 as a Professional Downtown Manager (PDM). Since 1998, Collins-Williams has been instrumental in raising over $1.9 million in outside funding to promote programs and launch new entrepreneurship initiatives in eastern Iowa, including an urban mixed use business incubator, and a rural virtual accelerator program called MyEntreNet. Under her guidance, the UNI Regional Business Center opened in January of 2001, which serves over 1,100 small businesses annually with technical assistance and training. She has authored and delivered entrepreneurship workshops in Iowa on such topics as Youth Entrepreneurship, Business Financial Statements, E-Commerce, Web Research, Strategic Planning and Community Empowerment.