Alfredo Ortiz is the president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, where he has led the defense of small businesses from the onslaught of bad government policies. Alfredo has testified before legislative committees about the impact of taxation and regulation on small business growth, and speaks frequently to business organizations across the nation about the need for job creators to seize responsibility for defending free enterprise.

He has been widely published in major media outlets, includingThe Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNBC, The Hill, and U.S. News & World Report and is the author of The Real Race Revolutionaries: How Minority Entrepreneurship Can Overcome America’s Racial and Economic Divides. Ortiz is a frequent guest on cable news networks and national radio talk shows, including CNN, Fox News, Hugh Hewitt, Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, and the Dennis Prager Show as well as C-SPAN. He served as a Commissioner to the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative.

Alfredo received his MBA at the University of Michigan and graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor’s degree in Economics.