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Deborah
Rosado Shaw, Founder, Umbrellas Plus & Dream Big LLC receives
the 2006 New York Latina entrepreneur award at the LATINA Style
Business Series!
Washington, DC--(HISPANIC
PR WIRE)--June 12, 2006--LATINA Style Magazine, the premier magazine
addressing the needs of the Latina professionals in the U.S.,
with the participation of the U.S. Small Business Administration,
hosts for the first time in Albuquerque the 2006 LATINA Style
Business Series on Friday, June 16, 2006 at the Hilton New York
(1335 Avenue of the Americas).
The LATINA Style Business
Series is the most successful business development conference
that seeks to empower Latina professionals and business owners
by bringing them together with key corporations and agencies that
provide goods, services and essential information most needed
by today’s entrepreneur.
Keynote speaker and
2006 LATINA Style Magazine New York entrepreneur award recipient,
Ms. Deborah Rosado Shaw, Founder, Umbrellas Plus & Dream Big
LLC has been named one of the top most successful Latinas in the
US. Ms. Shaw’s strategies for success have appeared numerous
major publications and a frequent guest on national television.
She became the first self-help Latina author to have been published
by a major publisher, Simon & Schuster, with her first book
Dream Big. Ms. Shaw has become an international speaker on issues
of personal empowerment, diversity, business strategy and entrepreneurship.
She is also involved in several organizations in her community.
Following the awards
luncheon, Ms. Theresa Torres, Director, Merrill Lynch moderates
the “Latina Entrepreneur Panel: Lessons Learned.”
The panel features three successful and prominent Latina business
owners: Ms. Awilda Velez, President, AV Financial Consulting Services;
Ms. Raquel Nunez, President, Nunez Electric; and Ana Madan-Russo,
President, McDonald’s New York Tri-State Owners & Operators
Association. On this interactive panel, they share their advice
and stories with fellow colleagues and aspiring entrepreneurs.
The Business Series
starts at 8:00 AM and concludes at 4:00 PM. The event includes
exhibits and expert presenters from sponsors American Airlines,
Cingular, Chubb, ExxonMobil, IBM, McDonald's, Principal Financial,
State Farm Insurance, Wachovia and Wal-Mart.
“The emergence
of the Latina entrepreneur as a catalyst for prosperity is a welcome
change in our community. Latinas are starting and succeeding in
business all across the country,” says Robert E. Bard, President,
LATINA Style Magazine. “Latinas are outpacing all other
business startups three to one.”
Registration fee includes
seminars, high power networking opportunities in the exhibit area,
breakfast, lunch, commemorative gift bag and a two-year subscription
to LATINA Style Magazine, for a tremendous value of only $30!
New York is the 56th
city since the inception of the Business Series in 1998; since
then it has received an overwhelming positive response by the
Latina, Hispanic and small-business community. Over 10,000 Latina
business-owners have participated in this program already. The
Series has been featured on NBC News, ABC News, FOX network, Univision,
Telemundo, the San Diego Tribune, the Washington Post, the Los
Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, and
SBTV.
LATINA Style Magazine,
a lifestyle magazine for the professional Hispanic woman, hosts
the LATINA Style Business Series bringing resources to entrepreneurs
and aspiring entrepreneurs in the local area.
For more information
or to register for the New York Business Series visit http://www.bs.latinastyle.com
or call 1-800-651-8083.
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CONTACT:
Robert E. Bard
(703) 312-0904 |
