BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:edu.community.ucla/1.1.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4ef07b7a-db71-7a2e-5848-74eb63c47640@community.ucla.edu SUMMARY:UCLA Latino Alumni Association Virtual Career Panel: Latino Bruin F ounders and Entrepreneurs DTSTAMP:20230524T023200Z DTSTART:20230531T010000Z DTEND:20230531T010000Z DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Latino Alumni Association (ULAA) invites you to our vi rtual "Latino Bruin Founders and Entrepreneurs" career panel.\n\nHave you ever wanted to start your own business? Do you have a great idea but aren’ t sure if you can pivot out of a “traditional” nine-to-five job? Or are yo u already a founder but not sure how to scale and grow your venture? Come hear Latino Bruin founders who have navigated these and more challenges on their way to founding successful businesses.\n\n \nMeet our Panelists\n\n \n\nCorissa Hernandez\, M.Ed. '06 is the co-founder and visionary behind L egacy Full Circle Financial & Insurance Services\, The Empire Tavern\, Hou se of Xelas and Nativo Hiland Park and the proud daughter of Mexican immig rants. After earning degrees at Cal Poly Pomona and UCLA\, she began her c areer as a teacher in the Los Angeles public school system until the 2008 recession brought in her first call to action\, and she launched her work as a school teacher by day and financial educator by night.\n\nAs Legacy F ull Circle took flight\, Corissa was inspired to meet unmet needs in her c ommunity\, connecting with other first-generation people of color and unde rrepresented groups. She opened three craft beer and cocktail businesses o ver the next four years\, establishing herself as one of the standout fema le entrepreneurs in a male-dominated industry. Her work has been highlight ed in The Los Angeles Times\, ABC VistaLA\, LA Magazine\, EaterLA\, Telemu ndo\, UCLA Magazine and more.\n\nToday\, Corissa successfully runs her thr ee businesses while still working to give back. She has partnered with ove r 100 aspiring entrepreneurs\, creators\, chefs and restaurateurs of color to share everything she wishes she would have known in business through h er mentorship sessions with other spirited entrepreneurs like herself.\n\n Alejandro Guerrero '07 is the co-founder and general partner at Act One Ve ntures\, a Los Angeles-based seed fund investing in business software star tups\, currently managing $140M in Assets Under Management (AUM). He has i nvested in 46 companies\, 70 percent of which were founded by women or min orities. Alejandro is also the creator of the Diversity Term Sheet Rider f or Representation at the Cap Table\, an initiative to bring diverse co-inv estors to deals every time a company raises a round of funding.\n\nPreviou sly\, Alejandro was the co-founder and CEO of Uniq Apps\, a software as a service (SaaS) platform for encrypted work messaging. Prior to Uniq\, he w as the co-founder of Live Entertainment Network\, an interactive video pla yer platform that helped artists monetize live shows on a "premium-content -only" destination.\n\nAndrés Snaider '88 practiced law for 10 years befor e leaving the corporate track to form Nextant\, an international\, Latino- owned business consulting firm that has grown to 200 employees and\, in ju st the last three years\, was named back-to-back winner of Microsoft's Sup plier of the Year Award and certified as a Great Place to Work. Andrés is also co-founder of Avanxo\, a cloud computing services company that was so ld to a publicly-traded company (Globant) in 2019.\n\nAs a first-generatio n college graduate\, he believes in the transformative power of entreprene urship and is actively involved in increasing the participation of histori cally underrepresented communities in business\, including through venture capital and service on the UCLA Latino Alumni Association Board.\n\nEvent Website: https://alumni.ucla.edu/event/latino-bruin-entrepreneurs-panel/\ n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/4ef07b7a-db71-7a2e-5848-74eb63 c47640 LOCATION:Online\, Zoom STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR