Silvana Rosero started her professional career 19 years ago as a Public Relations Coordinator at the second largest airline in Colombia, South America. While there, she was part of the team that successfully introduced the first Airbus 320 jet fleet to Colombia, coordinating simultaneous special productions with the public relations division of Airbus Industrie in Tolouse, France.

In 1998 she moved to the U.S. and worked in several roles both as a journalist and a bilingual marketing professional. In 2003 Silvana was asked by Small Pond Video Production’s founder, Gary Wall, to join the team as a Producer. Little did she know she would become an entrepreneur a year later when Small Pond’s founding partner offered Silvana an opportunity to become a partner in the business. Ten years later, Silvana Rosero runs the company as its President. Her company is a Certified Woman and Minority Owned Business, and most recently has been recognized by the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce with the Quality and Excellence Groundbreaker Award and by Oncor with the Supplier Diversity Rising Star Award.

Silvana holds a Bachelors Degree in Corporate Communications and Journalism from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia and is a 2014 graduate from the GDHCC Executive Entrepreneur Program.

Beatriz Manetta emigrated from Argentina to Elizabeth, New Jersey as a young girl. She has a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Accounting from Rutgers University and holds a Master of International Studies from Seton Hall University, where she received the Beta Gamma Sigma Award for contributing significantly to the vitality and strength of the economy, combining business achievement with service to humanity.   

She worked in corporate America for twenty years. Argent Associates was launched in 1998 and Asociar in 2012, both under the helm of Ms. Manetta as President & CEO. Both built a reputation by having and maintaining an impeccable reputation for quality and work ethics, as well as working towards exceeding customer expectations in all they do. 

Manetta serves on the Fairleigh Dickinson University Supply Chain Management Advisory Board, the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Women’s Business Council Southwest Board of Directors, the DFW Minority Business Council MBIC Chair, and the Seton Hall University Board of Regents. She served on the President's Export Council (PEC), which advised President G.W. Bush on international trade matters and its impact on small, women and minority owned businesses. She currently serves on the board of the United States Hispanic Advocacy Association and QuEST Forum where she is an executive contributor focusing on small business and sustainability issues as it relates to quality.