Patricia has over 14 years of experience developing entrepreneurial programs, she now heads the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Department at the Ministry of Industry & Trade of the Dominican Republic, connecting all the organizations (public, private and academic) connect and articulate to provide better offers for entrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic, as well as creating policies that enables the creations of new startups. Before working at the Ministry of Industry & Trade she was the Executive Director of Enlaces, Inc, an angel investor network in the Dominican Republic. She also worked for TiE Silicon Valley as Events & Programs Manager. She is currently acting as coordinator for the pre-acceleration program from CREE, BanReservas and before that she was coordinator for the pre-acceleration program from Aceleracion ALPHA. She hold a Bachelor Degree majoring in Marketing from the National University Pedro Henriquez Ureña.