Meet the Team

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Founder & Board Chair

Jorge C. Garrido is the Chief Executive Office of Financial Management Strategies. Financial Management Strategies is an independent financial services firm specializing in providing customized financial solutions for individuals, small businesses, and families through investment advice, retirement planning, insurance protection, estate planning, and fee-based financial planning. 

Email: jorgecgarrido@hotmail.com

Vice Chair

Lazaro J. Mur, Esq., JD, LLM., (Retired CPA), Founder of The Mur Law Firm, P.A., serving the international business community and high net worth entrepreneurs since 1985. Mr. Mur has an AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, is named as one of the Top Tax Attorneys in the state of Florida by the Miami Herald, and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Email: lmur@murlaw.com

Secretary

Founding Member

Alejandra is the Secretary of The Hispanic Vote of Palm Beach County and an Executive Board Member.  Financial Paraplanner Qualified Professional, Insurance Agent and Director of Operations at Financial Management Strategies. Financial Management Strategies is an independent financial services firm specializing in providing customized financial solutions for individuals, small businesses, and families through investment advice, retirement planning, insurance protection, estate planning, and fee-based financial planning.  

Email: garrido.alejandra@hotmail.com

Director

Founding Member

Jerry Sanchez III is a Senior Account Executive at Keystone Funding Inc with 33 years of residential lending experience. Specializing in loan product offerings to mortgage companies, banks, and credit unions. Jerry currently serves as Vice-President of Florida Association of Mortgage Professionals (FAMP).  Jerry is also a founding member of The Hispanic Vote in both Palm Beach and Broward Counties.


Email: gerard.sanchez3@gmail.com 

Director

Educational administrator Rossy Matos-Miranda is a tireless advocate for students, schools, and the power of education. Ms. Matos-Miranda has extensive knowledge of educational policy and large-scale programs, but always with an eye toward the needs of individual students and their communities. Most notably, Ms. Matos-Miranda has served as founding member and in senior leadership roles of two private and public schools in New York and New Jersey. Ms. Matos has extensive experience identifying effective strategies to close the educational achievement gap and leveling the plainfield for underserved students and families in private, charter, public schools and post-secondary institutions. Ms. Matos-Miranda holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Sociology from Vermont College  

Email: rossymatosmiranda@gmail.com

Director

Axel Miranda is a seasoned and proven professional, versed in External Relations, an strategic & business development individual in sync with the ever-changing dynamics and economics of the times. Miranda also has expertise in specialty areas such as Small Business Development, Healthcare and in Latino Affairs. Miranda is also able to, by drawing on years of experience and relationships in the public and private sector to help companies expand their operations and customer base locally, regionally, and nationally. One of Miranda’s highest achievements was serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of the State of New Jersey in 2003, he was proud to be the highest-ranking Latino appointment in the history of the state’s executive office. Miranda works to develop a platform that enhances his ability to apply his passion to the initiatives he is involved in; thus, harnessing that passion and energy to the benefit of his clients.  

Email: am@axelmiranda.com

Director

Brandon Cabrera is the Owner and CEO of The BrandX Company, a private real estate development firm with projects from single family homes to multifamily rental apartment complexes. He holds a Contractors license, and a Real Estate license, along with owning a diverse portfolio of properties in Palm Beach County. His company focuses on quality affordable homes and rental apartments for the everyday working-class family. He is continually seeking to improve Palm Beach County with quality housing that anyone can afford, and he also gives back by serving on a variety of boards and committees in the community. 

Email: brandoncaberapbc@gmail.com

Director

Steve Avila is the co-owner of Ivypedia, a Shanghai-based college admissions consulting company. He currently manages its U.S. subsidiary, SA Global Strategies. Steve works part-time as an assistant for County Commissioner Sara Baxter and serves as Vice-President of the Dartmouth Club of Palm Beach and is a Dartmouth College Fund volunteer. Steve is also a member of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. 

 
Email: steve.avila.11@gmail.com 

Director

Francisco Cuello is a Litigation Paralegal with over 14 years of experience in personal injury claims through multiples states. He has volunteered for the Pro bono Legal Research project through the Hope Fellowship Program advocating for the rights of agricultural workers and immigrants’ victims of wage theft. Also volunteered as a Guardian At Litem in Palm Beach County.

Francisco has dedicated his life to social work and passionately advocates for the Latino community. He currently serves as a director of the Palm Beach County Hispanic Bar Association.

Email: incorporatelegal@gmail.com