Associate Director, NASBITE Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP), Associate Business Continuity Professional (ABCP), Florida SBDC at USF, Tampa
Specialty: Women/Minority/Veteran Certification
Yanina Rosario is an associate director and business consultant for the Florida SBDC at USF. Rosario provides business owners with one-on-one expertise for optimizing business performance through marketing, strategic business planning, and business certification. She also teaches the Women/Minority/Disabled Veteran-Owned Certification seminar.
As associate director for the center, Rosario is responsible for outreach. This involves educating the community, establishing strategic partnerships and working on special projects.
Rosario’s expertise comes from more than 23 years in economic development, guiding pre-venture and well-established business owners through procurement, licensing, planning, marketing and financing. She’s helped clients secure more than $5.5 million in small business loans.
Rosario is a Minority Business Accelerator Coach with the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce and a University of South Florida’s Office of Supplier Development – Business Symposium Planning Committee member. She is a former contributor to the City of Tampa Equal Business Opportunity Advisory Committee, USF Office of Supplier Development’s Supplier Diversity Advisory Committee (SDAC) and Minority Enterprise Development Week (MEDWeek) planning committee.
Rosario obtained a bachelor’s in marketing from the University of Central Florida and a MBA in management from the Florida Institute of Technology.
