Baldwinsville coaching business certified as SDVOB

New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 27 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including one small firm in Baldwinsville.

The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification to James J. Muscatello, a Baldwinsville business that specializes in leadership coaching, personal development, sourcing, and procurement consulting services. Transworld of Mohawk Valley West, a business advisory firm located in Liverpool, was another Central New York business that was among the 27 newly certified businesses across that the state announced by the OGS on Oct. 3. 

The DSDVBD was created by New York State government in May 2014 through enactment of the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business Act. The state had 1,163 certified businesses, as of Oct. 3.

For a business to receive certification, one or more service-disabled veterans — with a service-connected disability rating of 10 percent or more from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (or from the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs for National Guard veterans) — must own at least 51 percent of the company. Other criteria include: the business must be independently owned and operated and have a significant business presence in New York, it must have conducted business for at least one year prior to the application date, and it must qualify as a small business under the New York State program. Several more requirements also need to be met.