Marie Gill, is among 24 prominent women business owners, selected by the South Florida Business Journal as Influential Businesswomen of 2014. Marie Gill is the first woman, the first Black, and the first of Caribbean descent to have won the U.S. Department of Commerce contract to operate the MBDA Business Center. Gill was recently honored by the MBDA as the National Performance Leader among all 44 MBDA Business Centers. Her high-achieving Business Center has facilitated over $5 Billion in government and commercial contracts, loans, bonding, and investments to minority-owned businesses.