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Claudia Viek serves as Executive Director of San Francisco Renaissance, a community development organization dedicated to increasing self-employment and business ownership among low and moderate income city residents. Ms. Viek also oversees the San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center which focuses on intensive business skills training, ongoing support services and houses the first small business incubator in northern California. She has developed a consulting service which assists other locales in replicating the SF Renaissance model. Ms. Viek is a founding member of the California Business Incubation Network.