CARLOS VILLANUEVA
President and founder of AMME, The Worldwide Association ofMexicans Abroad, a Mexican-American base organization in USA with7 International Chapters and Vice-president of the CaliforniaMexican American Chamber of Commerce and of the Hispanic BusinessAssociation of Orange County. He has organized over 90 businessmeetings, conferences and events with the aim of establishinglinks among Hispanic businessmen and creating new business opportunitiesfor them.
Over the past years he has organized many trade missions byHispanic businessmen from California, New York, Texas and Illinoisto Mexico City, China and Taiwan. Outstanding participation wasat the annual meeting of the AMMAC association of Mexico municipalpresidents, The US-China Business Forum and the Trade Summitsof the Mex-USA Economic Partnership Council.
From 1999 to 2000 Director of the Latino campaign of GeorgeW. Bush for President, he carried out over 75 events with Latinobusinessmen and over 200 with diverse communities of Hispanicvoters in different cities around the state, special standoutsbeing those carried out with the Mexican and Central Americancommunities. This made it possible to increase the percentageof the Latino vote, previously 17%, to 31%.
A member of the Hispanic Presidential Gala's financing committee;Villanueva contributed to raising funds for this celebration andwas, additionally, the person appointed by the organizing committeeto coordinate the receptions for the participating special guests.
In 2002 Mr. Villanueva was the founder of the National Conventionof the Mexican-American Associations. National forum for morethan 600 organizations who every day work for the advancementof more than 25 millions of Mexicans and Mexicans-Americans livingin the U.S.
As President of AMME in 1999 he has started the USA-Mexico-Linkproject, which was begun with the launching of the www.mexicanosenelexterior.comand the www.LatinoBusinessWorld.com Internet portals, which seeksto promote business deals by Mexican-American corporations inthe US, Mexican and overseas markets as well as to be a usefuldata bank for the 1,200 associations and organizations of Mexicansthat exist in the United States and represent over 25 millionpeople. These internet portals received in 2002 the special mentionrecognition from yahoo as the best community Spanish portals inUS
Under his direction the AMME successfully carried out in theyear 2002 the First National Tour thru many main cities aroundthe country. That success was made possible that for the firsttime in the history of the Mexican community in the United States,601 organizations of Mexican-Americans integrated under one organizationlooking for its development and consolidation. Mr. Villanuevahas also the intellectual creator of the biggest communitariansystem for organization's communication in the Spanish world.Thus AMME has received the recognition to its works by PresidentBush and by the Congresses of USA and Mexico.
In 2001, Carlos Villanueva received the Businessman of theYear award from the Central American Chamber of Commerce of theUnited States. In 2002 was nominated by the Latin Business Associationfor the Advocate of the Year award and in 2003 he received theExcellency Award from the International Sisters Cities Organizationfor his community success programs and his Hispanic accomplishmentsin US.
Carlos Villanueva, a former Marista student from the CUM (CentroUniversitario Mexico) graduated in Political Sciences and PublicAdministration from the Ibero-American University. He has a Master'sin Marketing and International Trade from the Mexican AutonomousTechnological Institute (ITAM. He is also President of C&VInternational a Marketing and Communication firm and a HispanicPolitical Consultant. Tels. (202) 466-0805 (626) 359-7156. (310)860-5626, (626) 304-0018.