Jamie Beletz
Small Business Owner, Project Manager, and Consultant in Arlington, Virginia
Jamie Beletz works at Veteran Owned Services (VOS), a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), with locations both in the Washington DC Metro Area and the Puget Sound Region. VOS is a social enterprise and is managed by a group of veterans who hire veterans and help them transition to civilian employment. VOS works with private, public and non-profit organizations assisting them with their mission and achieving results.
As the new CEO, he brings 36 years of enormous success in legislative affairs, government relations, organizational management and fundraising experience. He has a wide range of successful fundraising efforts. Among his most prized accomplishments was raising $3.5 million for the William M. Factory Small Business Incubator in Pierce County, Washington (which won the Small Business Incubator Award of the National Business Incubator Association) and passage of the Small Business Incubator Act of 2004 in Washington State.
His resume includes 5 years as an executive director of an international trade association, 6 years as president of a non-profit organization and executive director of a foundation which provided assistance to at risk children and their families, 10 years of experience as a program manager and 18 years as a business, fundraising and public affairs consultant. Beletz has enjoyed relationships with key members of the White House, Congress, state governors and legislators, mayors and county and city elected officials.
Beletz served in the U.S. Navy with tours in SE Asia and the Indian Ocean until it came to an abrupt end with Beletz becoming disabled. Thirty-five years later, Beletz eagerly deployed into Afghanistan on behalf of his country, serving as a program manager and contract specialist for the US Army, Department of Defense. Jamie had oversight over three of the five largest contracts totaling $4.3 billion in the austere environment, managing performance and controlling schedules and costs to provide on time deliverables within budget. For his efforts, he received three civilian medals: from the Secretary of Defense; the Secretary of the Army; and the NATO Command. As one Colonel of the US Marine Corps put it, “This man’s integrity and desire to make the world a better place has served us well. His sensitivity toward the people of Afghanistan made it possible to accomplish critical objectives that many could not handle.”