Featured Speaker for August 6, 2009

Tonya Harmon, Founder of Harmony Information Systems,is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of information technology experience.  Tonya has an established record of building companies that deliver sustained growth.  Harmony was recently named one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Washington DC-area, with a 356 percent growth rate over five years.  Today, Harmony products are used by more than 15,000 users to service millions of human services consumers.

Tonya is a 2007 winner of the Smart CEO Top 50 Women Entrepreneurs, and was a 2008 nominee for Entrepreneur of the Year from Women in Technology. Tonya is one of only six female CEOs in the Greater Washington DC area whose companies are backed by venture capitalists.

Prior to founding Harmony, Tonya ran her own consulting company, providing strategic counsel to human services organizations across the commonwealth of Virginia with a focus on performance management improvements through the use of technology.  The consulting practice lead to the idea of Harmony;Tonya realized there were few options available for integrated case management and financial management systems for human services agencies. 

Tonya’s entrepreneurial pursuits began at an early age when she founded Computon Computer Consulting Services.  The company specialized in developing personal computer-based software applications for mortgage companies,private schools, and manufacturers.

Tonya is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, in Ontario, Canada.  She lives with her husband and three children in northern Virginia.