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<br />SUMMARY <br /> <br /> <br />EDUARDO FIGUEROA <br />Business Consultant & Public Speaker <br />Hispanic Business Consultants <br /> <br />Eduardo Figueroa holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Instituto Panamericano de <br />Alta Direcci6n de Empresas and a Chemical Industrial Engineering Degree from the National Polytechnic <br />Institute, both in Mexico City. <br /> <br /> <br />He is the founder of Hispanic Business Consultants and one of the few bilingual <br />individuals dedicated to teaching individuals to become better employees, supervisors <br />and managers through special, tailor-made programs in Spanish that he offers to a <br />variety of companies on a regular basis, both in the USA and Mexico. He also teaches <br />Hispanic entrepreneurs how to start up and grow a business. <br /> <br />RELEVANT EXPERIENCE <br /> <br />. Over the years, Eduardo has become a Latino business specialist by training and mentoring <br />supervisors, leads, salespeople and managers. An array of well-known corporations have hired <br />Eduardo for employee training, where he has conducted over 250 classes, workshops and seminars on <br />topics such as self-empowerment, leadership, management, conflict resolution, sexual harassment, <br />sales, customer service and other subjects, both in USA and Mexico. <br />· As for entrepreneurial training, he has developed 13 seminars and conducted over 300 classes and <br />workshops - with more than 12,000 attendees - on themes ranging from personal motivation to how <br />to start a business, marketing, finance, accounting, and business plans. <br />. While working as a bilingual business consultant at the Small Business Development Center in Santa <br />Ana, he assisted 2,000 clients on a one-on-one basis in individual consultations. He helped small <br />business owners to prepare their business plans, resulting in over $2,500,000.00 in SBA loans. <br />· To help educate the Latino community in Southern California, Eduardo has obtained various grants <br />from the following organizations: $90,000 from the Orange County Workforce Investment Board in <br />2000; $45,000 from the WORKS Center in Santa Ana in 2001; $75,000 (in conjunction with the <br />Delhi Community Center) from the Empowerment Zone of Santa Ana in 2002-2003; and $100,000 <br />from Wells Fargo in 2004 and for 2005. <br />. He has presented his business courses and seminars through such organizations as the University of <br />Southern California (USC), the Gary Center of La Habra, the Delhi Community Center in Santa Ana, <br />the Inland Empire Small Business Development Center, Crystal Cathedral, Santa Ana W/O/R/K <br />Center, Santa Ana College, Rancho Santiago College, Orange County Business Council, Orange <br />Children and Parents Together, the Minority Business Development Center and various Hispanic <br />Chambers of Commerce throughout Southern California. <br />· He helped create 12 business segments for TV Channel 52 "Telemundo" (a Spanish language station) <br />to inform and educate the community as to how to be successful in business. <br />· He is also an instructor for the Premier FastTrac I and FastTrac II in Spanish, a national <br /> <br />Hispanic Business Consultants <br />2510 N Grand Ave Suite 105, Santa Ana, CA 92705 <br />Phone (714) 516-1111 * Fax (714) 516-1114 <br />eduardo@eduardofigueroa.com * www.eduardofigueroa.com <br /> <br />EXHIBIT 1 <br /> <br />138-3 <br />