Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico

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Rogelio Figueroa

Community Technical Consultant

Technical Services and System Development Entrepreneur

Environmentalist Politician

Community Activism Advisor

Industrial Consulting Services Entrepreneur

Environmental Activist

Native of Ceiba, Naguabo
and Puerto Rico

Public Speaker

Born on September 13, 1963 in Parcelas Aguas Claras, Ceiba, and raised in a rural agricultural community, in the midst of nature. His father was a laborer and farmer, his mother a house-wife. He is the youngest of nine siblings.

• Graduate of Rafael Rocca High School, Naguabo, 1981

• Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Mayagüez University Campus, 1986

• Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1988

• Specialist in industrial processes for cosmetics, foods, drugs, pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology. Renowned troubleshooter in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

• 16 years of experience in the development and improvement of industrial processes and systems.

• Eight years of experience as industrial technical services entrepreneur, in documentation and information systems for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries

• For the past eight years, president of two successful local companies with over 30 technical employees

Eight years as community advisor on environmental aspects and development of sustainable alternatives to projects.

• Toa Baja Community in Defense of the Coastal Zone

• Santa Bárbara Community against mud deposits from the dredge of Carraízo

• Communities Against Route 66 / Citizens for the Super-Expressway #3

• Citizen Commission for the Rescue of Caimito

• Development of Public Policy for Sustainable Development

• Alliance for the Development of Ceiba (APRODEC)

• Loíza and Piñones Communities

Co-founder of Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico (Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico)