Dr. Rafael Marrero is the founder and CEO of Rafael Marrero & Company. With 30 years of experience in his industry, a graduate of Stanford and Cornell Universities is a leading national expert in federal contracting, small and medium business entrepreneurship, project management, business and federal branding, and strategic communications.

Successful CEO
Founded in 2008, his firm has been recognized twice by 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. The firm is also member of Inc. Masters, the magazine’s inner circle.

Supplier of the Year
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.

Best-Selling Author
Dr. Marrero is the author of Amazon’s bestsellers “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, and “América 2.0: la guerra de independencia de EE. UU. contra China”.

Industry Expert
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).

Passionate Communicator
Through his talks, articles, seminars, webinars, and radio and television interviews, he 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.