Moderating the Town Hall is Monika Mantilla – President/CEO of Altura Capital and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Small Business Community Capital (SBCC).
Monika Mantilla
Moderator
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Small Business Community Capital (SBCC)
President and CEO, Altura Capital
Monika has dedicated the last 20 years of her life to her passion: pursuing societal transformation through entrepreneurial success by providing capital and expanding opportunity to promising entrepreneurs, all of which can bring significant returns to investors and economic development impact.
Jovita Carranza
Panelist
Administrator
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
As a member of President Trump’s Cabinet, she advocates on behalf of the 30 million small businesses in America. In her role as Administrator, she leads a team of professionals dedicated to ensuring entrepreneurs located across America have the support and resources they need to start, grow, and expand their small businesses, and recover in the event of a declared disaster.
Ashley Daniel Bell, Esq.
Panelist
Policy Advisor on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
White House Office of American Innovation
Ashley’s role is to actively promote federal resources available to American entrepreneurs as well as to support the opportunity for small business growth through America’s supply chains. In addition to Ashley’s current detail to the White House, he was appointed to serve as Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration for Region IV; serving nine districts located in the 8 Southeastern States.
Alfred A. Edmond Jr.
Panelist
SVP/Executive Editor-at-Large
BLACK ENTERPRISE
Alfred A. Edmond Jr. is responsible for providing brand, marketing and content leadership as a member of BLACK ENTERPRISE’s senior management team. Prior to his current position, Edmond was SVP/Chief Content Officer, responsible for overseeing all of the media platforms of Black Enterprise across events, video, digital/website, social media, print and other content distribution properties.
Rafael Martinez
Panelist
CEO
MBE Capital Partners, LLC
Rafael Martinez has over 30 years of experience working with middle market companies in developing financial solutions that allow clients to leverage the use of internal assets to increase cash flow. He has overseen over $8.7 billion in financing over the last five years, which helped clients increase revenues exponentially.
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