Dr. Rafael Marrero
Dr. Rafael Marrero is the founder and CEO of Rafael Marrero & Company, a management consultancy firm focused on advising entrepreneurs on how to do business with the U.S. Government, the richest customer in the world.
With 30 years of experience in his industry, a graduate of the prestigious Stanford and Cornell Universities is a leading national expert in federal contracting, small and medium business entrepreneurship, and project management.
Dr. Marrero is also the author of the Amazon's bestseller “La salsa secreta del Tío Sam”, the first Spanish language book on contracting and entrepreneurship in the federal sector, written exclusively for the Hispanic community.
Founded in 2008 and based in Miami, FL, his firm has been recognized twice by the prestigious Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States and as one of Inc. magazine’s best 50 workplaces in America.
In 2016, Dr. Marrero received the Supplier of the Year award, the highest honor given to minority businesses in the country by the National Minority Supplier Development Council. In 2019, his company won the Small Business of the Year, awarded by the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Sunshine Awards.
Through his talks, articles, seminars, webinars, and radio and television interviews, the distinguished entrepreneur intends to put his extensive theoretical and practical knowledge in the hands of the population sector with the greatest growth and impact on the country’s economy: the Hispanic community.
NBC, FOX News, NBC, Univision, Telemundo, Mega TV, América TeVé, EVTV, SBS, Radio Mambí, Radio Caracol, Zeta 92.3, Bloomberg, The Epoch Times, EFE, and Diario Las Américas are some of the media where has been invited to comment on small business financing options, SBA loans and grants, and current economic events.
Before creating Rafael Marrero & Company, he served as a corporate vice president for MasTec, a Fortune 500 multinational telecommunications, energy, and construction company. He also served as Latin America program manager for By Light Professional IT Services, a leading project management company that works with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).