About Us

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 business 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.

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Meet the Board of your Chamber

Emily Velez

Rigo Rodriguez

Michele Ortiz

Past Board of Directors

Priscilla Vasquez

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

Dr. Joseph M. Neunder was born in Buffalo, New York. His early years of study began at Calasactius School for the gifted, pioneers in gifted education. At age six, he started to swim competitively and by the tender age of ten he was ranked as one of the top ten swimmers in the USA. He was chosen to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Dr. Neunder is a graduate of Sarasota’s Pine View School for the Gifted, the only public school serving gifted students from grades second through twelfth. Currently, he has chosen the profession of Chiropractic medicine specializing in sport related injuries. He has joined the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Sarasota & Manatee

counties where he will be doing his best to keep the county strong and patients healthy.

Larry Mendez

Ralph La Fontaine

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

Rafael E. Cruz is a current board of director, and was born in Patillas, Puerto Rico. His college education was completed at Mayagüez College in Puerto Rico where his major was biology. After college, his professional career led him into the insurance industry, where he worked for 7 years. He has developed his own business in construction and general remodeling for mall and government agencies in Puerto Rico. His company was chosen as a turn key company for the prestigious mall in Puerto Rico. Rafael has been married for 33 years, resides in Sarasota and has three very accomplish children. At the present time he is a licensed insurance broker with a large insurance company here in Florida and serves his costumers and insurance companies with great care.