Jennifer Garcia is the Interim CEO at Latino Business Action, whose mission is to strengthen the United States by empowering Latino business owners to grow. The goal is to double the number of $10+ million, $100+ million, $1+ billion Latinx businesses by 2025.
Under her leadership, she oversaw four successful cohorts of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Education (SLEI-Ed) Scaling Program empowering nearly 300 Latino and Latina entrepreneurs to complete this prestigious program. Her contributions have been significant in developing the national ecosystem of scaled Latino and Latina small businesses across the United States and Puerto Rico.
Prior to LBAN, Jennifer spent 12 years at Bloomberg L.P. She managed the West Coast buy-side trade order management product specialist team and the electronic trading team. Previously she was responsible for managing a $6 million portfolio and C-suite relationships. Throughout the years, Garcia has illustrated distinguished passion and service to the Latino community. She is a participant and graduate of the inaugural class of the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley Latino Board Leadership Academy, with the mission of recruiting and training Latinos to serve as potential board members. Jennifer co-founded NALA, Lambda Theta Nu’s alumnae association, whose mission is to promote academic excellence in the Latino CommunityTo learn more about Jennifer click here.