Rosa Santana
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Santana Group
San Antonio, Texas
She is founder and CEO of the Santana Group and its affiliated companies, which provide human capital solutions, contract manufacturing and business process outsourcing services to businesses in the United States and Mexico.
Santana is a board member of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Educational Fund Board, Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, Greater: SATX Regional Economic Partnership, U.S. Department of Commerce: Minority Business Development Agency–MBE Advisory Council and Stanford Latino Business Action Network.
Santana has won numerous awards, including the Southwest Minority Supplier Business Development Council’s 2022 Minority Business Enterprise of the Year award, 2020 Minority Business Development Agency's National Distinguished Supplier Diversity award and the 2019 Central Texas Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year® award. Additionally, Santana was named to Automotive News' 2020 list of 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry.
She attended El Paso Community College and completed minority business executive programs at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University and the advanced management education program at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University during an uninterrupted career.