Surety company veteran Ellen Neylan founded Surety Bond Associates in June 2001 to develop and market innovative surety services to small, minority and women owned businesses. The company is licensed as a surety agency, and appointed to represent a select group of surety companies.

Surety Bond Associates is the leading provider of SBA backed bonds in the Mid-Atlantic region. The SBA created a Surety Bond Guarantee Program in 1971, which is designed to provide small, emerging, minority and women owned contractors access to contract opportunities and to assist them in getting bonds that can't be obtained through the standard surety market. The number of small construction start-ups is increasing at an explosive rate, and the government and private sector are continuing to earmark spending to various minorities.

Surety Bond Associates also operates a consulting business to develop and administer bonding and working capital assistance programs for government agencies in an effort to support their diversity goals. These programs are aimed at eliminating the barriers that currently exist that prevent small contractors from actively competing for contracting opportunities in public sector construction.

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