About Us
Our Puerto Rican Chamber is your best source for professional, value driven low cost service commerce by helping businesses, professionals and individuals reach their full potential while preserving and promoting our culture. Our knowledge it is vital to provide knowledge and information for businesses to be able to overcome the difficult trend of the new era and be successful. Promoting Spanish Speaking Americans businesses through community growth and development, by promoting economic programs designed to strengthen and expand the income potential of all Spanish Speaking Americans businesses and individuals. Promoting Spanish Speaking Americans programs of a civic, social, and cultural nature which are designed to increase the functional and aesthetic values of the community. *To discover and correct abuses which prevent the expansion of Spanish Speaking Americans businesses and community growth. *To act as a true source of information to its membership, while positively impacting and contributing to the community, through political involvement and government affairs. *To ensure that diversity is appropriately included in the corporate and government sectors recruitment processes, promotion practices and contractual assignment procedures. *To apply for, obtain, and contract with any federal, state or local government or agency thereof, for a direct loan or loans or other financial aid in the form of grants, to further the purposes of this corporation and to support and help preserve Puerto Rican culture. Established in Sarasota County Florida to serve a much customized businesses, we have vast experience to help your small business grow. Our chamber has comprehensive knowledge and experience focusing in diminishing problems for you and your employees. Meaning that we are able to provide the most value and innovation per your dollar spent.
We provide a satisfaction guarantee for all services provided.
Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder
Founder,President/CEO.
NRCC Business Woman of the Year 2005-06
Elizabeth has been in business for the past 38 years, from international model, TV Programming, Non for Profit org., and helping others to be masters of their own
destiny is her passion. She has been married for 34 years, has three very
accomplished children and is very involved in politics lobbing on behave of small business. She has a consulting business and develops un-expensive website's
All PRCC-SM board of directors are small businesses VOLUNTEERS who represents our cord values of our Puerto Rican business community. Due to the
hardships small business are experiencing, our board are in great position to advocated, and be involved in solutions making to enhance the future of our
community at large. Any member of PRCC-SM can be involved chairing a committee which is supervised by one of our board of directors.
Meet the Board of your Chamber
Emily Velez
Rigo Rodriguez
Michele Ortiz
Past Board of Directors
Priscilla Vasquez
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Dennis Arce is 64 year young, born in New York City and relocated with his family to San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1960. He studied Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico.Dennis has over 25 years of experience in Electronic Security System for Commercial, Industrial and Health Care Industry. He made his transition to Sarasota, Florida in 2007 and is presently working with a local companies in the Design, Sales & Installation of various types of Electronic Systems such as; INTRUSION, FIRE,CCTV & ACCESS CONTROL Systems. Dennis is married to Carmen Rosa and has two grown children and one grandson and a grand daughter who are living in Puerto Rico. Dennis is the Director of Membership and Public Relations
Larry Mendez
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Jason P. Ramos was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. During his childhood and teenage years he studied at some of the most prestigious private schools in Puerto Rico, including Cupeyville School and Antilles Military Academy. During those years, he actively participated in extracurricular activities including baseball, basketball, Tae Kwon Do, and in High School became a member of the Academy's Drill Team. For his scholastic excellence he was made a member of the National Honor Society. Mr. Ramos possesses a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Sacred Heart University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico. He is a newcomer to Florida. Prior to moving to Florida, he worked for over four years in the San Juan law firm of O'Neill & Gilmore, where practiced in the areas of Immigration, Collections, and Creditor's Rights in Bankruptcy. He currently works for the Sarasota law firm of GURLEY ¡ DRAMIS ¡ LAZO where he is pursuing a specialty practice in the areas of Surety/Construction Law and Bankruptcy Law. He has joined the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Sarasota & Manatee looking forward to assisting the state Spanish Speaking Americans community in these areas of practice
Liza Diaz
Jayson Ramos ESQ.
Secretary
Dennis Arce Director
PR-Membership
Edgar Santiiago
Co-Founders
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David Chavez
Director
Director of Finances, Mr. Schollard is originally from Worcester, MA where he studied at Clark University and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in 1951. With the objective of dedicating his professional career to a role in international banking
he obtained a Master of International Management degree from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Glendale, AZ in 1953. At Thunderbird he was recruited by the First National City Bank of New York which he joined in February 1953. After completing an orientation period of six months at the head office in New York in September he was assigned to the bank's Buenos Aires branch for training purposes.
After retiring as an Executive Vice President of Allied Bank International, a consortium bank owned 18 regional banks in the United States, in 1976, he became active in consultancy assignments from financial services organizations including the Agency for International Development (AID), the Interamericana Development Bank (IDB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector financing affiliate of the World Bank.
During his several years in New York he was active in several Latin American Chambers of Commerce. In 1971 he was a founding member of the Puerto Rican American Chamber of Commerce in the United States, Inc., of which he served one term as President in 1973. From 1995 until 2000 he was a senior official at the Corporación Andino de Fomento (CAF), headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela where he headed the Office of Risk Administration and was an Advisor to the Executive President. Most recently he has been affiliated with a privately owned equity fund based in Bermuda. Bill and his wife Roberta have been year round residents of Sarasota since 1997.
WILLIAM SCHOLLARD
Director of Finances
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