Over the past thirty years, Jose F. Niño has built a National and International business development company. His company, El Nino Group, LLC has a long and productive history of growing and serving as the primary connection in establishing partnerships, opportunities for business development, certifications and strategic planning for clients. The company also has a food division providing dairy and shelf stable products.

He is a co-founder of Allied Wireless Infrastructure Services, a Hispanic owned neutral Digital Infrastructure Services Company. AWIS is a wireless, small cell infrastructure, dark fiber, network edge micro data center and management services company.

He assisted MicroTech, based in Virginia, to obtain a $50 Billion IDIQ (Indefinite Demand/Indefinite Quantity) among other Federal Government contracts. The agreement is to do the re-infrastructure of the US Government’s Telecom and IT systems.

Mr. Niño has many years of experience working with entrepreneurs, federal government, corporations in the US with Hispanic and other ethnic communities, as well as in Latin America.

Mr. Niño was a founding member and First President/CEO of the US Hispanic Chambers of Commerce (USHCC). He helped expand the Chamber from less than 30 Chambers to over 258, representing the interest of more than 1.3 million US Hispanic owned businesses, today he is an advisor to the organization. The USHCC provided the climate to foster more businesses and more customers by building the brand, institutionalizing and endowing programs for perpetual growth. The USHCC is now a significant force within the US economy representing the interest of 4.7 million Hispanic owned businesses, promoting the economic growth and development of Hispanic entrepreneurs nationwide.

Mr. Niño serves as Chairman of the Board of Biofriendly Corporation, Board of Directors for Hispanics in Energy, BOD Instant Translation Services and serves on the National Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America, and Advisor to the Cyber Warrior Academy. He is a University of Maryland graduate and a former Small Business Advisory Board Member of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.

Mr. Niño lives in Maryland with his wife Theresa, they have three daughters and ten grandchildren.