Lourdes Martin-Rosa’s Government Business Solutions Helps Small Businesses Gain Government Contracts

              Lourdes Martin-Rosa, founder and president of Government Business Solutions, splits her time between offices in South Miami and Washington, D.C. She spends her days meeting with government employees who award contracts, coaching small business owners, holding workshops and advocating for the federal government’s Women’s Procurement Set-Aside Program.

Martin-Rosa began her career in advertising at the Miami Herald, hired in 1982 through a company-sponsored college recruitment program that paid for her to complete her degree in business administration at Florida International University. She then worked as a federal government travel consultant for small travel agencies. That led, in 1999, to a position with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as a state of Florida representative.