Involvement

Awards & Honors

K-Tec Systems leadership has been focused on building our honor-winning culture.

  • In 2023, our leader, Cathy Koch, has been recognized at the WBENC Annual National Conference as a STAR Women Business Owner, for her excellence in business leadership, resilience, and mentoring.
  • End of 2022, our leadership team joined and graduated from the SBA T.H.R.I.V.E 6-month Emerging Leaders Reimagined program.
  • In 2022, K-Tec Systems was selected to be a participant in the 10,000 Small Businesses Export initiative with U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo.
  • In 2017, K-Tec Systems has been recognized as one of the 2017 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch,” an awards program presented by Michigan Celebrates Small Business. Check the article on Crain’s Detroit. Companies making it to the “Top 50” are second-stage companies with 6 to 99 employees and generating $750,000 to $50 million in annual revenue or working capital from investors or grants. These companies form the “backbone of Michigan’s economy”. Press release
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  • End of 2016, K-Tec Systems got access to Lawrence Tech University 2017 Grant Program including the support of a team of Engineers & Business Consultants.
  • In 2016, Cathy Koch, as part of her award recognition as the 2015 Outstanding WBE Achiever, received a scholarship from General Motors to attend a Leadership Program on building a high performance minority business.
  • In 2016, our President graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program through Babson College, an entrepreneurial program for small businesses.
  • In January 2015, during the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), Cathy Koch had the honor of representing K-Tec Systems in the Autoline Supplier Symposium.
  • In 2011, K-Tec Systems attended the Tuck-WBENC Executive Program through Dartmouth College on a scholarship granted to Cathy Koch by IBM.
  • In 2011, Cathy Koch was nominated by DBusiness Magazine as one of the 8 Detroit Women business leaders making a difference in the growth of their respective companies, industries, and communities.
  • In 2000, Cathy Koch was honored on Entrepreneurship Action Day and received a Special Tribute from the State of Michigan for K-Tec Systems’ growth.

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Public Relations

  • K-Tec Systems serves, through Cathy Koch, on the global forum committee of WBENC (The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council), the largest third-party certifier of women owned businesses in the US. In the past, she has been Chair for the Great Lakes Women Business Council Forum.
  • In 2023, Cathy Koch, CEO & President of K-Tec Systems, was appointed as a representative of the small business community to the U.S. Small Business Administration Business Regulatory Fairness Board.

Events

In the upcoming months, K-Tec Systems will be participating to the following events. Save the dates in your agenda. It will be a pleasure to meet you there.

2017 AWAF Golf Outing

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