Chronological resume and career highlights of Frank Lopez

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Frank López LinkedIn
719 Divine Circle, Orlando, Florida 32828 Mobile: 202-294-6874 Email: frank@tainogroupllc.com
Summary Professional Profile
• An inspirational leader with extensive track record for helping to achieve and exceed organizational & philanthropic
mission-critical goals & objectives.
• Extensive experience in community engagement, corporate social responsibility, diversity & inclusion, in the
philanthropic, corporate and public sectors; with significant experience managing governance levels relative to
strategic partnership development, stakeholder collaboration & execution strategies.
Skill Highlights
● Excellent performance with supplier diversity
diverse entrepreneur development, strategic
alliance building engagements and executive
leadership audiences;
● Extensive background in public & corporate sector
supply-chain management as well as with contract
procurement processes;
● Proven ability to plan, organize, and manage
diverse vendor and community development as well
as mentor/protégé type collaborative engagements
and processes;
● Substantial experience effectuating
implementation of diverse supplier business &
organizational development with corporate and
government leadership stakeholders.
Corporate & Philanthropic Governance Affiliations
National Latino Outreach Advisory Council, INTUIT Corporation, Mountain View, CA - Member
Heart of Florida United Way, Orlando, FL – Member, Board of Directors
Open Network for Board Diversity (ONBOARD), U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA),
Washington, DC - Member
Acacia Florida Community Development Corporation, Orlando, FL – Co-Founder and President
of Inaugural Board of Directors
Source America (Formerly NISH of Ability One Federal Program) – National Board of
Directors – Former Executive Committee Member & Chair of Business Development Committee
Executive Officer & Management Experience
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Chief Strategist & Executive Officer
April 2008 to Present
Taino Group LLC – Potomac Falls, VA
● Serve in senior role in support of strategic planning and organizational development processes;
applied contracts and procurement systems; revenue development and proposal development
lifecycle requirements; and program management oversight on projects with targeted Federal agencies,
inclusive of civilian, defense and intelligence agencies.
● Scope out the core business development and capture planning activities of a targeted group of
socially disadvantaged certified small businesses; and accomplish collaborative interactions and
consultations to effectuate customer delivery of proven solutions of added value to target clients.

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● Establish resource development and supplier diversity driven processes for implementing innovative
community capacity building services and entrepreneurship training boot-camps in collaboration with
national business association and socially responsible corporate partners.
● Served as the Chief Diversity Officer for the Volvo Group and oversaw the company’s Volvo Rents
franchise business development strategy & outreach to minority entrepreneurs across the US.
Immediate Past President and Chief Executive Leader
December 2016 to October 2017
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando and Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
● Served and performed all duties incident to the position of President, as well as any other duties as assigned
from time to time by the Chamber’s Board of Directors, and served as the Chamber’s Chief Executive Leader
on all matters of operations, events and program implementation, as well as in providing and directing all staff
oversight, coaching and supervision in accordance with organizational by-laws, and policies, of the Chamber.
● The HCCMO is the leading Hispanic business voice of Central Florida, providing leadership for the economic
growth of the Central Florida Latino business community. It delivers business development services, and
implements mission-driven events and programs to over 1,800 affiliated members, focused on value-add
resources that help leverage and create meaningful connections between corporations and public sector
entities from throughout this economically active and growing region.
Senior Vice President, Partner Development & Executive Lead for ALPFA Foundation
August 2014 to December 2016
Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting America (ALPFA) – Washington, DC
● Served in the senior role in support of strategic planning and corporate development processes; corporate and
philanthropic partner development and relationship management processes and engagements; revenue
development and proposal development lifecycle requirements; and program management oversight.
● ALPFA was founded in 1972, and is one of the largest and longest-standing Latino organizations. Its mission
is to empower and develop Latino men and women as leaders of character for the nation, in every
sector of the global economy. With over 48,000 members, in 43 professional and 145 student chapters
across the United States, ALPFA, working with more than 400 diverse partners, provides leadership
development, mentoring, networking, and career opportunities.
President and Chief Executive Officer
May 2002 to April 2008
U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation – Washington, DC
● Served as principal development strategist and fundraiser to grow entrepreneurship learning programs that led
to the actualization of a "National Leadership & Chamber Excellence Institute", an institute that actively
engaged small businesses as partners with a diverse number of corporations in diverse business sectors.
● Implemented philanthropic development and relationship building strategies that served as the basis for the
creation of "Procurement University: Mastering the Corporate Supply Chain", an Executive Leadership
and Small Business Entrepreneurship Training Camp Program.
● Envisioned as well as conceptualized framework for the development of a technology driven database that
helped enhance corporate funding, and the establishment of National Youth Entrepreneurship Training
Camps, and Small Business Incubation Support Programs throughout major markets of the country.
Director, Professional Services Solutions Delivery Practice
January 1999 to March 2002
Nortel Networks - Southeast and CALA Global Professional Services – Plantation, Florida
● Directed the program management functions of Nortel's Latin America region with leading oversight
responsibility for achievement of P&L milestones for the professional services line of business.
● Defined capture life-cycle plans for Solution Teams to drive implementation of a contracted base of $100M of
profitable business in the Domestic Southeast US, Caribbean and Latin America markets.
● Created & managed a Project Management Office to support the service delivery processes for a regional
group with locally dispersed tactical project management Teams throughout the Caribbean and Latin
America, addressing 47 different countries, with geographically dispersed supply-chain support structures.
● Oversaw major projects including migration of Call Center technology and implementation of an English-
speaking Caribbean Region call center network spanning Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada and Anguilla.

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Other Executive Experience in the Non-Profit Human & Health Care Sectors
Vice President, Program & Participant Administration
January 1998 to January 1999
Wildcat Services Corporation – New York, New York
● Created & executed on strategic revenue development plan that attained expansion of a cadre of small
businesses that implemented talent pool outsourcing models encompassing support for over 1,800
individuals in transition-to-work programs with a revenue base of $16.0M per year.
● Organized, sourced & led Team that achieved cost-effective deployment of an 1,800 head-count capacity
workforce to provide term services to public and private sector vendors.
Director, Health Care Network Development
January 1996 to January 1998
YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities – New York, New York
● Developed resource development proposal that led to achievement of strategic alliances with clinical and
rehabilitative services Teams that resulted in creation of a strategic rehabilitative health care network to
support the rehabilitation needs of over 2,500 individuals.
Other Executive Level Management Confidential Experience in Government
Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Development
February 1989 to September 1995
NYS Office of People With Developmental Disabilities – Albany, New York
• Conceptualized, developed and implemented budget allocation strategy that led to actualization of special
projects worth over $25.0M, projects that achieved the development of over 2,000 residential, day
treatment and family support opportunities for previously un-served individuals with developmental
disabilities, and that included voluntary sector capacity development & customer service strategies, such as:
o A $1.7M Cash Flow Revolving Loan Pool to provide enterprise bridge and working capital loans to non-
profit organizations serving underserved people & economically distressed communities across New York
State;
o A $600K Transportation Support Program that increased transportation access to over 400 families
with physical & developmentally impaired members; and,o
o A Project for Social Entrepreneurs that enabled a core group of Minority-serving community
organizations to collectively generate more than $3.6M in additional earned income per year through
facilities management and property development business practices.
Director, Office of M/WBE & Contract Management,
June 1983 to February 1989
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Albany, New York
● Directed a strategic business matchmaking effort that succeeded in increasing construction management
contractor compliance with Federal Minority & Women Business Enterprise (M/WBE) contracting goals of the
U.S. EPA. Achieved the attainment of over $43.0M in direct or subcontracted contracts annually to NYS
certified M/WBE enterprises.
Education
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Wharton Business School - University of Pennsylvania 2008
Philadelphia, PA
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Wharton Fellows - Executive Education Program
Harvard Business School - Harvard University 2006
Cambridge, MA
Corporate Governance: Leadership in the Boardroom
Executive Education Program

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Graduate School for Human Services - Lincoln University 1980
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Human Services Management (Completed All Required Coursework – MA Degree Pending Thesis Completion)
Pratt Institute 1995
Brooklyn, New York
Community Economic Development
Housing Development Fellows - Executive Education Program
Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) 1969-1972
New York, New York
Undergraduate Studies – Political Science
Awards and Recognitions
• Numerous special recognition & appreciation awards received from a wide variety of business
trade associations, Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, and Educational Institutions for
accomplishments in the promotion of Services for People with Disabilities, Small Business
Development, Diversity & Inclusion in Corporate Philanthropy & Procurement Supply
Chains, Youth Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development Initiatives across major
markets of the US.
• Have appeared on National media outlets as well as served as keynote speaker and presenter
at various National trade conferences, including appearances on CNN, Univision, Telemundo,
C-Span, and the USHCC nationally syndicated television show Hispanics Today, serving
as expert commentator on issues associated with Youth Entrepreneurship, Community
Empowerment Trends, and Outreach & Marketing Strategies to Emerging Markets across
the US.
Professional References & Professional Testimonials
• Professional References Available Upon Request