Business development center gets new director

Business development center gets new director

Wilma Worden, former president and CEO of Community Career Development, Inc., has been named the new director of the Los Angeles Regional Small Business Development Center Lead Center at Cal State University Northridge (CSUN).

Worden will work directly with Fred Evans, dean of Northridge’s College of Business and Economics, in overseeing the lead center’s operations as well as its four sub-centers and their respective business service satellites. She’ll also be managing the relationships between the U.S. Small Business Administration and small business service activities in the area.

The SBA last year named CSUN the new regional lead center for its Small Business Development Network in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and awarded the university’s College of Business and Economics $2.9 million annually to administer and fund the network of small business centers in the three-county region.

The small business development centers provide small business owners with one-stop access to free business consulting, planning, marketing and training programs.

Worden has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of the Philippines.