GWHCC Hispanic Business Expo a complete success at LIBizus booth (photo gallery)

Roger Campos, Business Ombudsman with the Office of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan at the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
We finally made it to Washington DC on Monday evening with little traffic. Weather was nice although the cherry trees were not blooming yet despite being the National Cherry Blossom Festival Week. As Pamela Nieto, Director of Marketing and Communications of the Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GWHCC) put it, let it snow all it wants before the Expo!
Exhibitors and sponsors arrived early to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to set up before the Ribbon Cutting ceremony starting promptly at 9:00 am. Over 150 exhibitors were crowding the convention center’s D-Hall. Roger Campos, Business Ombudsman with the Office of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, recognized the GWHCC for their success at the Expo’s sixth anniversary, which attracted more than 1,800 participants and 60 sponsors and partners.
During the ceremony, it was a pleasure seeing Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and some “Latinas in official business” such as Lillian Cruz, Deputy Director of Constituent Services for U.S. Congressman Chris Van Hollen; Monica Palacio, Director at the DC Office of Human Rights; Ana Harvey, Director of Department of Small and Local Business Development; Jackie Reyes, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs; and Natalia Olson-Urtecho, Regional Administrator for Mid-Atlantic, US Small Business Administration.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser gave intro words to the ceremony and celebrated the progress and initiative of the GWHCC has had under the leadership of Mario Acosta-Velez, GWHCC Chairman of the Board, and Angela Franco Vasco, Pres and CEO.
“The Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has become a leading regional business organization with the Business Expo as its premier event for Hispanic businesses to connect, network and grow locally, nationally and internationally,” Acosta-Velez said. “Our Chamber’s commitment is to continue to help Hispanic businesses move forward and succeed. We look forward to another successful Expo on March 15, 2016,” he anticipated.
The event featured speed networking, business matchmaking, workshops, an international row showcasing 15 companies from Latin America looking to import their products and services to the U.S., and the Million Dollar Club panel presenting five Hispanic millionaires who shared how they started their business and the challenges they faced.
As one of the media sponsors, we received local Latinas in business at our booth and invited them to participate in our LIBizus gallery. We created great excitement –our booth was literally mobbed- with our platform and soon you will see many of their small businesses featured on OUR LIBizus section.
Click on any photo to see the complete photo gallery! We missed a few names, please ladies tell us who you are and we’ll be happy to add your names to the list.
- Aracelli Fullem, International Protocol Consultant
- Xiomara Creque-Bromberg, Export Finance Mgr Women Minority-owned Business
- Ariana and Jamie -sorry we missed your last names!
- Belen DeLuca, ADP Major Accounts District Manager
- Brenda Ramirez Bowker
- Cecilia Arce, Verde Cleaning Services
- Cistina Fandino, Sales, La Mera Mera
- Claudine Figueroa, Sorry we missed your biz!
- Cristina Escobar, cleaning services
- Diana Mejia, Connector Health Care
- Diana Salazar
- Emilia Cortez Gomez, Program Dev Sp, HeritageCare
- Ivette Monney and Ana Tellez Claros, Housing and Comm Services Northern Virginia Inc.
- Keyla Sanders, Photography
- Sorry we missed your name!
- Ligia Share, Living and Giving and Susana G Baumann, LIbizus
- Liliana Quintana, Acct Ex, MLNews
- Martie Pineda, Anbassador of Joy, Health and Happiness
- Monica Vargas
- Natalia Vargas
- Rosario Gamboa, Canela Bakery
- Roxana Mejia, Director Political Affairs, Intl Union Painters and Allied Trades
- Silvia Tergas, Prudential and Susana G Baumann, LIBizus
- Yatzuri Koehler, AVP TDBank and Susana G Baumann, LIBizus
- GWHCC Pres and CEO Angela Franco Vasco
- Laura Medina, Sales and Mktg Inlingua
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Hi, Ledys! Todas las fotos que tenemos se subieron a la galeria… Mmmm… Dejame ver si quedo alguna. Como es el nombre de tu empresa?
Hola Latinas en business. .. estuve en El evento en Washington, me gustaria estar en la Galeria de fotos.. estoy en el campo de construccion, recuerdo que me tomaron foto… ojala me puedan incluir…