Office of Small Business Development Centers

Biography
Antonio Doss
Associate Administrator
Office of Small Business Development Centers

Mr. Antonio Doss was appointed Associate Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) in April 2004. With more than 25 years of experience in financial services, community affairs, and the federal government, his career demonstrates progressive growth in senior management roles with a reputation for outstanding performance, strong leadership and quality customer outreach.

In this role, Mr. Doss manages a $110 million economic development program that funds 63 Small Business Development Lead Centers in every state plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands with 900 outreach service locations. Under Mr. Doss’ leadership, the SBA provides in-depth counseling and training to existing businesses and start-up ventures through these centers, enabling the creation of new firms, expansion of jobs and higher survival rates for small businesses. Clients receive assistance in a wide array of small business management areas including financial, marketing and business planning.  Increasingly SBDCs are providing specialized support to technology and high growth firms through seven Small Business Technology Development Centers.

Before his appointment as Associate Administrator, Mr. Doss graduated from an extensive three year senior executive leadership program at the SBA, during which time he held several key leadership roles within the agency.   Prior to joining the federal government, Mr. Doss was Senior Vice President at Bank of America where his duties included oversight of SBA lending teams, branch offices, and a consumer lending product group as well as mortgage and real estate lending services to low and moderate-income communities.

Mr. Doss earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Robert Morris College. He is also a graduate of Leadership Maryland and the Consumer Bankers Association’s Graduate School of Bank Management, at the University of Virginia. He lives in Mitchellville, Maryland with his wife Mara, son, Anton and daughter, Jazmin.