Awards and Recognition
SDI’s success has translated into wide-ranging awards and accolades:
- Carmen Castillo served as a panelist in the March 5, 2009 United Nations panel discussion, helping to address the challenges to and directions for diversity business within the global marketplace
- SDI has contributed to the forthcoming publication, The Roadmap to 2020: Fueling the Growth of Women’s Enterprise Development over the Coming Decade
- DiversityBusiness.com named SDI as a “Top Business” and featured Carmen Castillo as a lead article
- SDI has been named a "Supplier of the Year" by the Florida Regional Minority Business Development Council
- President Carmen Castillo was featured in recent books including Susan Phillips Bari’s Yes, I Can Do That! and Margaret Heffernan’s How She Does It
- Enterprising Women Magazine presented Carmen Castillo with an “Enterprising Women of the Year” award
- Researchers at Hispanic Business Magazine analyzed corporate and biographical data of the highest-ranking entrepreneurial women at leading corporations, and named Carmen as an Elite Hispanic Woman
- SDI has been identified as one of the largest Hispanic Businesses in the United States (Hispanic Business Magazine)
- The National Minority Supplier Development Council presented SDI with the "National Minority Supplier of the Year" award
