📍Holly Burrow Email and Phone Number

EqALL is a capacity building provider and program designer for ESO's (Entrepreneurship Service Organizations) we provide curriculum design, platform hosting, facilitation and TA support for early-stage to growth stage businesses. As a partner we build client rapport, track growth metrics and help build narrative of reportable success.

• Facilitated the AccelerateHER Texas Women Owned Incubator Program, supporting early-stage woman-owned startups.• Designed and curated local programming to foster growth and scale of businesses.• Provided onsite and virtual advisory services to empower entrepreneurs.

The Policy Circle’s Civic Leadership Engagement Roadmap (CLER) program

The Make Startups Executive Fellowship increases the impact potential and operational capacity of executives in entrepreneurship support, ecosystem building, and economic development organizations. The goal of the program is to equip executives with skills in strategic partnership building, accessing WIOA funding, delivering AI-enabled training, economic impact reporting, and entrepreneurial advocacy.

Focused Accelerator strategy and operations: recruiting mentors, strategic partnerships, founder office hours, leading events, program calendar management.Founder operations: reviewing progress Dashboards, founder incorporation & involvement.

Impact Ventures is a Dallas based startup accelerator and integrated capital fund with a mission to eliminate the social and economic barriers for Women and Minority entrepreneurs launching high growth, tech or tech-enabled businesses and social enterprises.Guided and supported accelerator strategy and operations.

Working with startups to analyze and understand next steps for strategic growth.Provides business advising, coaching & outreach to connect clients to resources. Identifies new opportunities to partner and collaborate with North Texas Entrepreneurship Ecosystems & working cross-functionally to pursue muti-market business development for PeopleFund at events, workshops, boards & committees :*Build relationships bridging partners, marketing & fundraising across Dallas/Fort Worth markets*Tracking data and metrics against deliverables, preparing for quarterly reviews*Coordinate pairings for clients and the mentor network*Grow market area mentor partnerships; added 60 mentors *Manage startup pipeline, steering them to the relevant resources, programs and tools to support their journey*Provide 1:1 business advising to 200+ clients annually focusing on types of funding, business plans, problem solving and resource utilization *Develop curriculum and schedule founder workshop events: registration, outreach, and speakers for events* Primary contact for Women’s Business Assistance Center * Follow up with program attendees for access to capital* Maintain relationships with the lending, underwriting, and risk mitigation teams to aid clients * Assist PeopleFund clients to meet SBA requirements* Support clients with education and recognition through newsletters, announcements, programs & policy updates *Provide site visits to clients upon loan closing as needed*Track technical assistance, enrollment & conversions to loans through accurate record maintenance of program performance via constituent databases

Every business has unique goals, as the founder I guided the company through each challenging opportunity. I grew a store front business from the ground up that has been acquired, sustained a catering business with an elite client list and fostered creative endeavors growing relationships and expanding my network. Founding a business means that I successfully:*incubated business ideas and nurtured their design *designed operation and organizational road maps for the businesses *secured financing *architected marketing concepts to overcome specific challenges such as location*staffed both permanent and temporary roles *established and maintained operational standards for accuracy, productivity and reliability *engineered complimentary business concepts that each gained a strong position in the market increasing revenue by 72% without increasing costsThrough a combination of a trade skill and business acumen learned through both education and experience I built a successful hospitality / F&B business.

Spearheaded operations and facilities management of multiple complimentary Interion start-up ventures during a high growth period. Reporting directly to the CEO I established and maintained business standards for accuracy, productivity and reliability while managing the daily functions of the business.This functionality included: *developed major goals to support objectives *provided oversight and guidance to critical projects to ensure streamlined activities within the organization *staffed all new clinics (5) with medical and support personnel; increasing personnel by 74% *managed all non-sales personnel *engineered and implemented new departmental policies*maintained a comprehensive knowledge of the overall departmental functions *increased store front locations by 57% *negotiated all contracts and supervised all build-outs *managed all vendors and associates I served as the eyes and ears on the ground for the executive staff at all operating satellite locations of the business.

Sinful Bakeshop was my first personal business endeavor. A cottage bakeshop concept that delivered corporate gifts locally and worked solely in custom orders and pop up shops.I baked, designed and delivered custom cakes, cookies and cupcakes aligned by seasonal plans with ingredient availability and key area events for optimal promotions. This business thrived on customer retention through creative local marketing and planning.