Transforming Ideas into Enterprises: Nora Myers on Supporting Women and Minority-Owned Businesses

Nora Myers is the Executive Director of the West Virginia Women’s Business Center, a program of Partner Community Capital. In this role, she oversees business support services and access to capital for women and minority-owned small businesses. Throughout her career, she has worked extensively with start-up organizations. She served as the LaunchLab Director at West Virginia University’s Beckley campus and as the Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Charleston, where she was the operational assistance partner for Adena Ventures. In this capacity, she provided business development support to numerous companies across the state seeking venture capital.

 

Nora has experience as a commercial lender in the Washington, DC area, serving small to medium-sized enterprises. She is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute in Atlanta and holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington, as well as a BS in Management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Additionally, she serves on the boards of the Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, the Fund for the Arts, and Kanawha Valley NOW.