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 Carmen Algeciras

Carmen Algeciras has 7 years of international trade and business administration experience. From 1999 to 2003, Algeciras worked as a cargo sales manager at Southern International Aviation Services, representing such international airlines as Finnair, South African Airways, and Dutch Caribbean Airlines. As the cargo sales manager, she formulated and executed cargo sales strategies and annual marketing plans for clients. In doing so, she analyzed various markets and territories by drawing together economic and business development data into reports and thereby implementing appropriate sales strategies. While completing her Bachelor's, she also worked in several law firms, with State Representative Carlos Lacasa, as well as with an engineering firm.

Ms. Algeciras began working at FIU in January 2004 as the coordinator for the USAID funded John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program. In March of 2005, Ms. Algeciras was appointed as the director of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program. Over the last two years, she developed and implemented FIU's program management and marketing strategies in addition to recruiting qualified candidates to travel overseas to provide volunteer technical assistance to small to medium sized enterprises in Central America. As part of the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center and the Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management, she has been able to generate further support for the FTF program, within the University, as well as throughout the country.