Portfolio Company of the Year People Solutions, a Dallas, Tex.-based provider of human resource management outsourcing and consulting services to corporations, received NASBIC's 2001 Portfolio Company of the Year award. Hector V. Barreto, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, second from left, presented the award to Ed Rankin, Founder and CEO of People Solutions, at right. Joining them were NASBIC Chairman Ed Brown, Rocky Mountain Capital Partners, left, and Frank DeLape, a principal with Sagemark Capital, the SBIC that provided critical early financing for People Solutions.