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Director
Maria de Lourdes Sobrino
Founder/CEO, Lulu's Dessert
Corp.
Maria de Lourdes Sobrino is Founder and CEO of Lulu’s Dessert® Corporation.
Established in 1982, Lulu’s Dessert®, is ranked among the largest
and fastest growing Hispanic owned businesses in the United States. Sobrino
introduced the concept of ready-to-eat gelatin to American grocers in California
by recognizing a market need and revolutionizing the food industry based on
her own mother’s recipe. From the initial production of 300 cups of gelatin
a day, Lulu’s Dessert® has overcome many challenges and obstacles
to become a leading maker of ready-to-eat desserts. Sobrino’s leadership
also got her recognized and invited to be part of President George W. Bush’s,
Economic Forum in Waco, Texas to represent “Small Businesses.” She
lent her expertise to identify obstacles to increase jobs and economy in America.
The Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study at Harvard
University honored Sobrino in the National traveling exhibition that reinterprets
the History of American Women and American Business - “Enterprising Women,
the Businesswomen of America: 1750-2000” features 250 years of History
of American Women Entrepreneurs.
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