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Darien Cabral ~ Special Project Consultant with The Manufacturing Extension Partnership specializing in the areas of economic development, business planning and finance. Cabral’s economic development career spans over twenty years in New Mexico. He was Director of the Small Business Development Center at Northern New Mexico Community College for ten years; He directed the New Mexico Business Resource Center in Albuquerque; He served as Director of Coffee Kids, an economic development organization headquartered in Santa Fe that works in Latin America, and he ran the Indian Arts and Crafts Association (IACA) – the primary international trade organization in the $2 billion Indian art sector, where he was responsible for coordinating the largest wholesale Indian Art Trade Show in the world and one of the most successful in IACA history.
He was a senior partner in a commercial financing firm and served as a commercial lender at a New Mexico bank. Cabral has raised millions of dollars of private equity and debt capital for many New Mexico enterprises as well as raised millions of dollars of grant funding for economic development initiatives. He has served on many boards. He was the principal founder, first Board President and long-term Treasurer of the first community-based lending organization in the State with current lending capacity of over $12 million – the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund. Cabral was one of the principal authors of the New Mexico Rural Enterprise Community Grant Program, and author and Director of the Ford Foundation Rural Poverty initiative in northern New Mexico. He also works as a senior strategist for The Idea Group of Santa Fe, a rapidly growing New Mexico based marketing and strategic planning organization with national and international clientele. He is the author of numerous plans and feasibility studies resulting in many multi-million dollar investments from one of the largest Indian Casino Resorts in New Mexico to a study just completed for the North American Wind Research and Training Center. He holds a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird (The Gavin School of International Management), studied business in Japan on a fellowship program, and served as a development consultant in the former Soviet Union with sponsorship from the Soros Foundation.
Cabral produces business plans and feasibility studies and provides strategic planning support for New Mexico manufacturers at the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories Small Business Assistance Program and other MEP partners.
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