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