by Dan Perkins
Source: SBA
Release
On Saturday,
December 9, 2006, the U.S. Senate
confirmed the nomination of Jovita Carranza,
an experienced Latina business executive, as
deputy administrator of the U.S. Small
Business Administration (SBA).
Carranza, who had
been nominated by President George W. Bush,
was unanimously endorsed Wednesday by the
Senate Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship.
Named Hispanic
Woman of the Year by Hispanic Business
Magazine in 2004, Carranza said she is
enthusiastic about transferring her 30 years of
experience at UPS to the SBA.
“I will bring to
the Small Business Administration a
goal-oriented management philosophy with a
history of successes on two continents,”
Carranza said.
SBA
Administrator Steven C. Preston welcomed
Carranza’s confirmation. “I look forward to
working with Jovita,” he said. “Her combination
of drive, insight, personnel management and
business process experience offers a tremendous
value to the SBA as we work toward a higher
degree of customer responsiveness and
operational sophistication at the agency.”
Senator John
Kerry, a ranking member of the Senate
committee, said he was anxious to get Carranza
on the job at SBA so she can transfer her
private sector experience to the SBA. “You’ve
got a terrific set of credentials and
background,” he said. “It’s impressive. It’s a
great story. It’s the way it should work in
America.”
Carranza is a
native of Chicago, and earned her MBA from the
University of Miami, Florida. She started
at UPS in 1976 as a part-time, night-shift clerk
in Los Angeles in 1976 and worked her way up to
regional manager for international relations in
Miami by 2000. Most recently, she was vice
president of air operations at the worldwide
package shipping company at its facility in
Louisville, Kentucky, and oversaw the
cutting-edge automated package processing
operation there.
While at UPS,
Carranza also served as president of Latin
American Operations and the Caribbean.
Additionally, she has extensive experience in
human resources management and work force
planning.
In addition to her
professional career, Carranza has been actively
involved in community service, both in
leadership and advisory capacities.
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