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Our associate consultants have extensive experience in various professional fields
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Rodolfo
Siles has a solid background in international NGO’s management from his
9-year work at
CARE, one of the largest international aid organizations in the
world. Rodolfo has managed numerous projects and initiatives
including the implementation of an integrated financial system into 40
country offices. He has lead
projects that included the development of strategies and plans for IT
technologies and processes on the use and correct application to support
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Rodolfo has an
extensive experience in business management and the development and
implementation of strategies including Business Process Reengineering.
In his experience he has been responsible for integrated business
systems; making improvements to procurement processes, budgeting, and
inventory management; Additionally he developed a project information
system to support the information management efforts of development
projects in the areas of health, natural resources, education, economic
development, water and sanitation;
Before joining CARE,
Rodolfo was the lead consultant for a Bolivian consulting company
offering financial analysis and feasibility studies for private
companies and local governments.
Rodolfo has a bachelor degree in Civil and
Architectural Engineering, from the University of Miami, a Master of
Science in Management (MSM) from the Stevens Institute of Technology,
which he got through a scholarship from the US Fulbright Program, and a
Project Management Certification (SCPM) from Stanford University. He is
a Certified Project Manager Professional
PMP.
Rodolfo has traveled
intensively around the globe, he has worked in 16 countries from
Latin-America, Middle East, Asia and Africa. He is fluent in Spanish and
English
rodolfo@impacto-consulting.com
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Maria Hill
has an extensive background in business development
with emphasis in the development of business strategies and processes to
ensure business success and access to capital. Services she provides
include business planning and development, marketing research and
strategies, operations, financial planning, financial projections
and access to capital through lending programs, investors’
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other traditional and non-traditional funding sources.
Ms. Hill
also provides services to foreign companies and individuals
starting, relocating or opening a business/branch in the U.S. for
which she partners with law firms specializing in immigration law
and assistance to those seeking executive and/or investors visas.
Ms. Hill owns MH Consulting, since 1998.
MH Consulting has provided services to large engineering and
environmental companies opening analytical testing laboratories in
the Southeast of the U.S. in addition to servicing to a variety of
industries and foreign companies or individuals establishing
businesses in the U.S. and to growing U.S. companies in need of
capital, business development, operations, process improvement,
marketing, auditing, strategic planning, negotiations of mergers and
acquisitions, purchase of franchises, and in securing equity capital
and bank loans.
At present, Ms. Hill provides business development consulting
services to a non-profit development group with emphasis in
assisting established ethnic minority owned businesses. Furthermore,
she serves on several boards and advisory committees and mentors
several small and mid-size businesses. Ms. Hill has worked for
several business development organizations where she held positions
as the Lead Business Consultant, Financial and Business Advisor and
Executive Director. She has also worked for major private U.S. and
foreign corporations where she has been responsible for the
management of personnel, establishing departments and branches and
the budgeting. Ms. Hill has an extensive background in Information
Technology, Environmental sciences and Finance and Business
Administration.
Ms. Hill has Bachelors in Chemistry with emphasis in Statistics and
Mathematics from Florida Atlantic University, obtained certification
as a Systems Administrator from Oglethorpe University, and studied
business administration in Barcelona, Spain. She is fully bilingual
in English and Spanish.
maria@impacto-consulting.com
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Arturo Gil, CSA.
Born in Puerto Rico, Arturo is an experienced Insurance and
Financial Services Associate for
State Farm Insurance and a Broker for
Franchise Career Consultants. He is also a Member of the
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of
Insurance and Financial Advisors, the Society of Senior
Advisors, a graduate of Kennesaw State University and a
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trey.gil.hny3@statefarm.com
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Ralph
Perales, Perales & Fernandez, LLP.
Ralph is truly a bicultural individual. He was born in
Lima, Peru, lived in San Jose, Costa Rica and went to
school in Atlanta, Georgia. After earning an engineering
degree from Georgia Tech, he studied law at Georgia
State University. Throughout his career, Ralph has been
a member and a leader of some of Georgia’s most prestigious groups and
associations such as the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the
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He is the host of “Leyes Cotidianas” since 2000, an Emmy Award
winning television program on WPBA Channel 30. Practice Areas:
personal injury and commercial litigation, workers’ compensation,
corporate and business law, real estate transactions, immigration
and criminal defense.
rperales@peralesfernandez.com
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Luis Perez-Eguiarte,
Perales & Fernandez, LLP.
Luis is an immigration
attorney in Atlanta, and a long standing leader
of Georgia’s Hispanic community.
For several years he worked with the
international legal firm of Kilpatrick Stockton
in Atlanta, GA and Washington, D.C., where he
specialized in mergers and acquisitions and
corporate transactions. He is admitted to
practice law in the Mexican Republic and in the
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Mr. Perez-Eguiarte obtained his law degree at the
Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and holds a Master's
Degree in International and Comparative Law from the George
Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Perez-Eguiarte was an
associate for five years with Baker & McKenzie in Mexico City where
he specialized in Labor and Employee Benefits matters and assisted
in developing the Environmental Practice Group. Before joining
Kilpatrick Stockton, Mr. Perez-Eguiarte served as an intern with the
Mexican Embassy and the U.S. House of Representatives, in
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Perez-Eguiarte is a founding member of the
Mexican American Business Chamber in Atlanta, having served as Vice
President from 1999 to 2001 and as President in 2002 and 2003. He
also sits on the Boards of the Mexican Center of Atlanta and the
Georgia Conservancy, and is a member of the Georgia Advisory
Committee to the U.S Commission on Civil Rights. Besides speaking
English and Spanish (his native language) Mr. Perez-Eguiarte is
fluent in Italian and proficient in French.
During 2000, Mr. Perez-Eguiarte appeared weekly
on the CNN en Español show "Economia y Finanzas" as a legal analyst.
Because of the time demands of a growing immigration
practice, Mr. Perez-Eguiarte discontinued his weekly appearances to
become one of CNN en Español’s most frequent guests and the legal
expert of choice of several anchors.
In 2000, Mr. Perez-Eguiarte was distinguished as
one of Georgia's "40 under 40 - Rising Stars in Business and
Politics" by Georgia Trend magazine.
During several years he wrote a periodical column for La
Vision de Georgia, one of Atlanta's leading Hispanic newspapers, as
well as on other local and national Hispanic publications.
For the past few years, he has been the host of the public
service radio show “Boletin Migratorio Radio” on Planeta X (1190 AM)
and La Ley (1080 AM) radio stations in metropolitan Atlanta, and is
a weekly guest on immigration matters of “La Voz” radio station in
Dalton, GA. Mr. Perez-Eguiarte
is founder and editor of “Boletin Migratorio”, a free bimonthly
Spanish language magazine on immigration matters, distributed in the
metropolitan Atlanta region. Starting on May, 2006, “Boletin
Migratorio TV” will be launched and broadcasted live on Georgia TeVe
(Comcast 150) every Sunday with Mr. Perez-Eguiarte as its host.
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Stuart
Sutherland, Sutherland Associates, LLC Attorneys
at Law - A Corporate and Transactions Boutique.
Sutherland
Associates, LLC is a boutique law firm dedicated
to providing efficient, resourceful and
practical solutions to the design and
implementation of its client’s corporate and
transactional legal issues. After more than 22
years with one of Atlanta’s premier law firms,
M. Stuart Sutherland decided to move his
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From this platform, Mr. Sutherland offers carefully
selected clients a hands-on, nimble and personalized variation of
big-firm-style, sophisticated transactional counsel.
Practice Areas : Strategic
Commercial and Corporate Legal Counseling,
Franchising and Distribution –Domestic and
International, Start-up, Joint Venture, Mergers
& Acquisitions and Project Development
Transactions and Counseling.
stuart@sutherland-associates.com
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