Francisco Javier Jimenez

A native of Puerto Rico, Francisco Javier Jimenez recently joined LEDC after more than 25 years in the federal market sector. After a 10-year military career, Francisco Javier entered the private sector achieving great success in areas of technology implementation, project and program management, business development, and for the past 11 years, as the owner and principal of his own business consulting firm. In this most recent role, Francisco Javier has been instrumental in coaching, mentoring, and guiding businesses to achieve their objectives and reach their personal and professional goals in the very competitive federal contracting arena. Having achieved great success in the private sector, he joins LEDC in a new capacity to focus his efforts on directly helping and developing small businesses of diverse, and sometimes underrepresented, socio-economic categories. In this role, he assists entrepreneurs and businesspersons by leveraging all his years of experience and using every tool available to him to have budding small businesses realize their goals. Francisco Javier has conducted undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and the University of Maryland Global Campus. He is a member of various national and international business and professional organizations.