Speaker

Barbara Armand
Barbara Armand has been a business and community leader throughout her career. She is president and CEO of Cherry Hill-based Armand Corporation, a firm she founded in 1991 that provides construction management and engineering services in the areas of transportation, housing, education and government. The Philadelphia Business Journal from 1995 through 1997 ranked Armand Corporation as one of the Delaware Valley’s “100 Fastest Growing Privately Held Firms,” and NJBiz ranked the firm in 2003 through 2005 as among the “Top 50 Construction Management Firms” in the state. Armand Corporation has completed projects as close as Atlantic City and as far as Indonesia.

Raised in Louisiana, Armand pursued a challenging career prior to founding her own firm, working for a decade on various design and construction projects. She was an engineering consultant in the nuclear power industry; an area field engineer for Bechtel Corporation; and an expert in electrical cable reliability, power supplies and instrumentation.

Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards for her achievements, including the Black Executive Corporate Award from the Metropolitan Trenton African American Chamber of Commerce, the Professional Services Industry Businessperson of the Year Award from the New Jersey Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Tribute to Women in Industry Award from the YMCA of Camden County and the Minority Small Businessperson of the Year award from the United States Small Business Administration, among many others accolades. She has been profiled in local and regional newspapers and magazines as well as in Elan Magazine.

A graduate of Thomas Edison State College with a B.A. in mathematics/natural science, Armand is an active volunteer. She has served as a member of the boards of Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services Inc., Camden Area Health Education Center, Rutgers University (Camden) School of Business, Arts & Business Partnership, and Lourdes Health System Foundation. She is former chairperson of the Southern New Jersey Development Council and is a current member of the Board of Professional Women in Construction. Armand is a Leadership New Jersey Fellow, Class of 2003. She has served on the Rowan University Board of Trustees since 2004.

Armand lives in Mt. Laurel. She is the mother of one daughter, Nico James, who resides in Washington, D.C.