Maria Charito Kruvant

Maria Charito Kruvant founded Creative Associates International, Inc. (CAII) in 1979 with three other women.

Government ties

 * "From 1996 to 2000, Kruvant served as an emergency schools trustee after the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority's Board took power from the elected school board. Kruvant has served as chair of the advisory board of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Washington District Office. She has held the Small Business Administration's Advisory Council public meetings at Creative's headquarters. She also has been president of the board of directors of the Society for International Development's Washington chapter, and member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Kruvant has worked on the Project in Search of a National Security Strategy, and served as president of the National Association of Women Business Owners' D.C. chapter."


 * "Kruvant's husband, William Kruvant, who is a senior adviser to Creative, is a former assistant director of financial institutions and markets issues at the General Accounting Office. In 1991, he was one of the authors of a GAO report that determined there was no price manipulation of oil prices during the Gulf War. Critics had alleged that speculators were profiting from artificially raised oil prices in the stock market. William Kruvant was one of the authors of the report that said the oil prices reflected actual changes in supply and demand and were not the result of manipulation."