Founder of Umbrellas Plus, LLC. and Dream Big Enterprises, Deborah has designed, negotiated and closed multi-million dollar deals with some of the toughest buyers in the world including; Costco, Toys-R-Us, Wal-Mart and the Walt Disney Company. She is the critically acclaimed author of Dream Big! – A Roadmap for Facing Life’s Challenges and Creating the Life you Deserve, and with its publication by Simon and Schuster became the first Hispanic person to have a self-help book published by a major publisher. She is a successful entrepreneur and has been recognized with numerous awards including the SBA sponsored “Women of Enterprise Award”, Dialogue on Diversity’s “Entrepreneurial Excellence Award” and the “Madam C.J. Walker Entrepreneurial Excellence Award” and the “Free Enterprise Legend Award”. In 2002 and 2003 she was listed as one of the “100 Most Successful Latinos in the US” by Hispanic Magazine. Deborah is a board member of the non-profit organization Count-Me-In for Women’s Economic and also serves pm the Frito-Lay Hispanic Latino Advisory Board and the Office Depot Women’s Advisory Council.