Angelica Moyano, Academic Director, United International College
Angelica Moyano, was born in Bogota, Colombia where she lived for 20 years. In 1999, she moved with her family to South Florida, USA. Moyano has a Bachelor degree in Business Management, with a minor in Marketing from Saint Thomas University, and a Master degree in Higher Education Management from Barry University.
Commissioner Darline Riggs, Seat 4, City of Miramar
Darline B. Riggs was elected to the Miramar City Commission, Seat 4 on March 10, 2015. Darline B. Riggs was given up by her birth mother at 2 months old and adopted into a family of ten. At the age of 9, her family settled in Miramar where she has resided for the last twenty-five years. A graduate of Miramar High, she went on to obtain her Associate of Science degree in nursing from Broward College, her Bachelor of Science in nursing and her Master of Science in nursing education from Florida Atlantic University.
Lydia Bautista Moller, President, United International College
Lydia was born in Bogotá Colombia. She earned a Bachelor Degree in Economics from the Universidad Externado de Colombia and along with her husband J. Alberto Moyano Ferrer founded UNILATINA, higher education institution in 1998 in Bogota, Colombia. In 1995, she received a Master Degree in Higher Education Administration from Universidad de los Andes. She has devoted her life developing entrepreneurial leaders. Lydia and Alberto created the Holistic Model of Education, which works on the professional development of the individual but also on the personal and intuitive development.
Andres Ocampo, Director of Operations, HLB Specialties
Andres was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1975. He graduated in architecture at Universidad de los Andes in 1999. That same year he migrated to the US where he worked with his family business as a customs broker for the next 4 years. While there, he pursued an MBA with emphasis in International Business at Florida International University, graduating in 2003. That same year he changed career paths and joined HLB Specialties, who are importers and distributors of fresh fruits and clients of his previous position as customs broker.
For the past 14 years, he has worked at HLB Specialties through different roles in the family owned business and for the past 5 years, acting as its Director of Operations.
There he’s responsible for the financial aspects of the company as well as for developing and maintaining grower relationships throughout Latin America. While at this role, he has had the opportunity to travel to several countries in the region, visiting farms and participating in multiples events organized by the local governments to attract foreign buyers that would be interested in bringing fresh fruits and products to the North American and European markets.
Under Mr. Ocampo’s guidance, HLB Specialties has grown to be a top player in the tropical fruit importing business, specializing in papayas and rambutan and supplying most top retailers and wholesalers in the US and Canada. Due to the nature of the business, Mr. Ocampo is very involved with the logistical challenges and searching for opportunities and products that will satisfy the needs of the North American market. By matching those needs with the realities and opportunities of the agricultural sector of the hemisphere, he developed a unique perspective of the food chain as a whole.
Ellen Kennedy, Assistant Director of Business Development/Comm., Port Everglades
Ellen Mishkin Kennedy is the Assistant Director of Business Development/Communications for Port Everglades. She has worked to promote business development, strengthen community relationships and build an international reputation for the South Florida seaport since 2000. During her tenure, Port Everglades has seen its cruise traffic more than double from 1.6 million multi-day passengers annually to nearly 4 million, and cargo volumes grow from 465,000 containers to more than one-million today.
Ms. Kennedy heads up the Corporate Communications section, part of the Business Development Division, of Port Everglades and is responsible for all of the public relations functions including media relations, special events, publications, presentations, advertising, website and social media, and assisting the marketing sections to promote cruise and cargo business development.
Prior to joining Broward County, she was a vice president with the local public relations firm Bitner.com, which is now known as the Bitner Group. She also served as the Director of Public Relations for the Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau in the Fort Myers, Sanibel, Florida area; as an editor/writer at the University of Florida Health Science Center and as a reporter for the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Ms. Kennedy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Communications. She is also a 2016 graduate of Leadership Broward, and is an active member of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) Communications Committee and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau Marketing Advisory Committee. In 2016, Ms. Kennedy and her staff were honored to receive the AAPA’s Overall Award of Communications Excellence (category 3).
David Alfandari, Owner, Pa'Ya to Go
David Alfandari Acrich was born in Cali, Colombia. He graduated from Universidad Externado de Colombia with a Bachelor Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management. He completed two specializations from Universidad de los Andes in Financial Management in an inflationary economy and Marketing Planning and Management. He also completed an specialization from the Escuela de Cocina Paris in Gourmet Cuisine. He has attended the Touristic Symposium Colombo-French, Hotel Accounting and Hotel Sales and Marketing.
He served as a faculty member of the Universidad Externado de Colombia in the field of Administration of Clubs and Restaurants, and he was the director of internships. He was also the general manager of Club Deportivo Las Mananitas Panama, Operations Manager of Tony Romas Restaurant of Bogota, Owner and Manager of D’Alafandary Restaurant, Gran Tessilera and Inversiones Mambo.
David founded Hot Pandeyuca & Company Inc. in Miami, FL in 1998. His company produces frozen bakery products (bread, pan de bono, & pan de yuca). Pa Ya To Go is the brand used to commercialize the products. David’s company also creates private brands with his products like El Sembrador.
Jaime Flasterstein, Owner, 1on1 Real Estate
Jaime Flasterstein
Broker/Owner
1 on 1 Real Estate LLC
Jaime Flasterstein is licensed in Real Estate since 2005, Jaime helped many local and foreign clients buy, sale, rent and manage Residential & Commercial properties. After consistently growing his Real Estate book of business, mainly through referrals and repeat clients, he decided in 2009 to open his own company.
Jaime is currently the Broker/Owner of 1 on 1 Real Estate LLC. A growing South Florida Dynamic Real Estate Brokerage headquartered in Pembroke Pines that has Branches in Broward County and in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Their portfolio of clients include local Floridians, Out of State Investors and also Foreign Nationals which are provided Professional and Honest 1 on 1 service with Integrity. Jaime Flasterstein is passionate about helping the Real Estate professional community and is currently serving as the Vice-President of the South Broward Board of Realtors. In the last few years he served in the International, Commercial Investment, MLS, Professional Standards, Education & Grievance committees.