About C&B Group

Built on what we lived.
Refined by who we serve.

C&B Group is a women-owned, family-operated consulting firm based in Glen Allen, Virginia. Since 2017, the firm has provided fractional executive leadership to small businesses, government contractors, and growing organizations across the Commonwealth.

SWaM Certified Set-Aside Eligible SAM Registered Glen Allen, VA Est. 2017
C&B Group founders
Our Story

Started at the kitchen table.
Now in the boardroom.

C&B Group started the way most real businesses do. Not with a business plan or a pitch deck. With a problem. Small businesses in our community were growing fast and breaking faster. Owners wearing every hat. No HR infrastructure. No procurement strategy. No one in the room who had done it before.

We had. Between us, backgrounds in human resources, government contracting, project management, counseling, and operations. The kind of experience that comes from building inside systems designed to exclude the people standing next to us.

So in September 2017, we incorporated. A women-owned, family-operated firm. The name on the door belongs to the family. The work belongs to the businesses that trust us to sit in their corner and operate like owners.

2017
Founded
4
Service disciplines
VA
Based & certified
How We Operate

Three commitments.
Every engagement.

These are not corporate values on a poster. They are the operating principles behind every retainer, every sprint, and every deliverable that leaves this firm.

01

Ownership, not oversight.

C&B does not advise from the sidelines. The firm embeds inside operations. That means accountability for outcomes, not just recommendations. When something breaks at 9 PM on a Wednesday, there is already someone in the system who knows where the file is.

02

Structure before scale.

Growth without infrastructure is a liability. C&B builds the skeleton first. Entity formation, procedural manuals, compliance frameworks, and documented processes. The foundation that lets a business hire its tenth employee without the wheels coming off.

03

Clarity over complexity.

Government proposals, employee handbooks, brand systems, financial workflows. Every deliverable is built to be understood by the person who has to use it. Plain language. Clean structure. Nothing that requires a translator to implement.

The Team

The people behind
the operating table.

C&B is a small firm by design. Every engagement is led by a senior operator with direct access to the owner. No account managers. No handoffs. The person in the meeting is the person doing the work.

Shahedah Fornah
Shahedah Fornah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Zainab Kamarah
Zainab Kamarah
Founder & Director of Procurement
Christina Rios
Christina Rios
Clinical Director
Kadie Dumbuya
Kadie Dumbuya
Chief Human Resources Officer
Darshell Brown
Darshell Brown
Senior Risk Management Officer
Elizabeth Fraser
Elizabeth Fraser
Quality Assurance Officer
Nicole Welds
Nicole Welds
Executive Director of Programs
Senyte Pierce
Senyte Pierce
Director of Public Good
Veronica Loyal
Veronica Loyal
Executive Assistant
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