Today’s speaker, Molly K. Gimmel,is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Design To Delivery Inc. D2DInc was founded in September 2001 as a consulting firm dedicated to helping small businesses win and manage government contracts. D2DInc helped its clients win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts, and assisted over 400 companies in getting on the GSA Schedule. In 2009, the company established its own federal practice and is now 100% focused on serving government agencies in the areas of acquisition and contract management; program management; budget and financial management; and administrative and clerical support. Molly currently serves as Chair of the National Board of Directors for the National Association of Women
Business Owners (NAWBO), and is a past president of the NAWBO Greater DC Chapter. She was named an Enterprising Woman of the Year in 2014 by Enterprising Women magazine and serves on the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. She also received a Brava Award from Smart CEO magazine in 2015 recognizing outstanding female CEOs.

Rich Glover, the new District Governor for District 7620, visited us last week and shared his vision of Rotary during the coming year. Rich is a former Navy Hospital Corpsman and healthcare executive. He began his Rotary life with the Rotary Club of Johnson County, in Olathe, Kansas. He chaired an international project to benefit Mother Theresa’s homes in Calcutta, and served as president of that club. After a move to Maryland, he joined and became president of the Rotary Club of Southern Frederick County, one of four large clubs in Frederick County. Recently, he led the effort to establish the new club—Smoketown, in Brunswick, MD. Rich’s wife Susan is past president of the Rockville Club and Chair of the District’s Youth Exchange Programs Committee. He discussed his plans for the coming year and described his fifth item for the Four Way Test: Is it Fun?

Any Ginsburg, Executive Director, Friends of White Flint, was our main speaker last week. Amy, who has lived in this area for many years, discussed the many projects and plans along Rockville Pike and the White Flint area. Among here items…

• Pike and Rose Center is nearly complete, with a few more buildings going up in the next year or so.
• The old White Flint mall area is still vacant, but the Lord & Taylor store will continue to operate. The site may be part of a development plan for a new Amazon headquarters.
• Large buildings are planned for the area around the White Flint Metro.
• For details, visit the group’s blog at www.whiteflint.org