Atlanta Hosts Hispanic Entrepreneurs Forum

NHEO.ORG Arms Entrepreneurs with Knowledge & Resources to Grow Businesses in Unsteady Times at Emory Goizueta Business School

NHEO Forum Atlanta 2010 will Spotlight Resources to Foster Business Growth and Assist in Driving Social Change

CHARLOTTE, N.C., -- The National Hispanic Entrepreneurs Organization (NHEO.ORG) announce a nationwide event designed to arm entrepreneurs with the knowledge and resources needed to create, grow and maintain businesses during tough economic times. The NHEO Atlanta Forum 2010 will provide an explorative space where together entrepreneurs and supporters of the mission will focus on ideas, innovation, and social impact.

The NHEO Forum Atlanta 2010-Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum Event will take place on April, 2nd, 2010 from 3:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Emory Goizueta Business School, Boynton Auditorium. This special event will be an open forum for entrepreneurs, social innovators, academia, executives, students, and policymakers to openly interact, with an end goal of fostering collaboration, the cross-pollination of experiences, and the exchange of valuable ideas. The cost of the NHEO Forum registration is $47 for students, and $62 general admission. To register, please visit http://www.nheo.org

"There are more than 3 million Hispanic-owned business in the United States that generate nearly $400 billion in annual spending. This is a great opportunity to work towards building the next generation of strong entrepreneurs," says Founder and CEO of NHEO.ORG Juan Pablo Giometti. "We are on a mission to inspire entrepreneurial culture, and the Atlanta Forum 2010 will bring us another step closer to that goal." Along with NHEO.ORG, other sponsors for the event include Emory Goizueta Business School, Allstate, NASA, Georgia Bio, PR Newswire, Latino Leaders Magazine, Univision 34 Atlanta, and more.

Keynote speakers at the NHEO Atlanta Forum 2010 will include Rafael Andino, founder of Biofisica, Inc., George Haddad, Aerospace Engineer at NASA Kennedy Space Center, David Vargas President of Vargas & Amigos, Christine Clavijo-Kish, Senior Vice-President of Multicultural Markets for PR Newswire, and Juan Pablo Giometti Founder of NHEO.ORG. The general speaking sessions will be moderated by Anchor/ Reporter Francesca Maxime.

For more information, or to sign up for the NHEO Forum Atlanta 2010-Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum, please visithttp://www.nheo.org

About National Hispanic Entrepreneurs' Organization

National Hispanic Entrepreneurs' Organization (NHEO.ORG), headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., was founded to empower Hispanic entrepreneurs, who are underrepresented in America. NHEO provides the know-how, networking, and mentoring resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. NHEO has recent partnerships with Microsoft and PR Newswire, and since launching in 2009 the organization has helped entrepreneurs, service partners, investors, researchers and public policy makers in diverse industries and at all stages of development. For more information, please visit http://www.nheo.org or call 704-909-7945.

SOURCE National Hispanic Entrepreneur's Organization