By Tangerine Clarke
Jamaican-born businesswoman,
Ingrid Murray has
signed a million-dollar contract
with the New York Metropolitan
Transit Authority
(MTA) to sanitize and disinfect
its stations, trains and terminals,
as the city continues its
fight against the deadly coronavirus
pandemic.
The country’s largest public
transit system that began
sanitizing its hundreds of
trains during a nightly scheduled
maintenance project, has
hired the expert labor force of
Prospect Cleaning Services, a
family-owned Brooklyn-based
company as part of its massive
cleanup operation.
Murray, a successful certified
accountant, entrepreneur,
and distinguished businesswoman
who currently serves
as the president and director of
Facilities for Prospect Cleaning
Services, under her leadership,
has raised the company’s
annual revenue from 75K to
over 1.5M.
According to the achiever,
like most small businesses,
COVID-19 presented a major
challenge for Prospect Cleaning
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that lost more than 65 percent
of its revenue as a result of
the global pandemic.
The company said however,
in the midst of every storm is a
silver lining, and for Prospect
Cleaning, a New York State and
City certified Minority Women
Business Enterprise (MWBE),
the cloud began to clear when
it was chosen to help New York
Metropolitan Transit Authority
(MTA) stay on track by providing
quality COVID-19 cleaning,
disinfecting and sanitization
services for those essential
workers traveling along
the Metro North and Harlem
Hudson train lines.
Murray, a graduate of Excelsior
Community College in
Kingston, Jamaica, who relocated
her family to the United
States in 2010 — with less than
72 hours, a staunch negotiator,
was able to onboard and train
more than 50 service providers
in OSHA’s amended CDC
approved practices, and supply
MTA with 24-hour staffing for
its iconic Grand Central Station
terminal.
The mother of five who
graduated from Medgar Evers
College, where she received her
bachelor’s degree in Business
Administrations, continues to
educate herself, and is now
taking online classes at the
University of Cumbria, where
she is on track to receive her
master’s in organizational
leadership. She is also a graduate
of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000
Small Businesses Program,
where she was one of the delegates
chosen nationally to testify
before Congress on behalf
of small minority owned businesses.
An astute, brilliant and
hardworking individual, Murray
said, although life in the
United States has presented
many challenges, she has been
able to persevere and help others
along the way.
After witnessing her sister
suffer from breast cancer, Murray
set out to make a difference
by volunteering with the
American Cancer Society and
later joining forces with Cleaning
for a Reason, by providing
Businesswoman Ingrid Murray. Excelsior Growth Fund
cleaning services to breast
cancer patients.
Murray was named 2019
Brooklyn Power Woman and
honored as the 2015 Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce Building
Brooklyn Awardee. She is
also a 2015 Worldwide Publishing’s
Top Female Industry
Executive Award recipient.
Jamaican-born businesswoman gets
MTA million-dollar sanitizing contract
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