Small Business Development Center Staff

Meet our director:

As Director of the Loyola SBDC and the LSBDC Greater New Orleans Region, Carmen Sunda is responsible for ten parish regional SBDC.  She assists and advises a diversified group of business owners and   manages a team of independent contractors, small business consultants, graduate assistants, students and interns. She was named the Louisiana SBDC State Star in 2007 and awarded the SBA 2009 Financial Services Champion of the Year for the state of Louisiana.  Sunda has more than 25 years experience working with small businesses. Her areas of expertise include in small business disaster preparedness and recovery, strategic marketing, loan packaging, market research, and management. She also has taught business courses at both Loyola and the University of New Orleans for the past 20 plus years. She holds an MBA from the University of New Orleans. 

The LSBDC GNOR consulting team includes:

 

  • Dr. Mike Cusack (Loyola), Senior Business Consultant
    mcusack@lsbdc.org or (504) 352-0230              
  • Youlander Fulton (Southern), Business Consultant
    yfulton@lsbdc.org or (504) 202-6730
  • Allen Villarrubia (Loyola), Business Consultant
    avillarrubia@lsbdc.org or (504) 343-9874 
  • Tori Rayne (Nicholls), Business Continuity Director
    trayne@lsbdc.org or (985) 449-7092              
  • Jere Madere, Business Continuity Consultant
    jmadere@lsbdc.org  or 504-202-6329
  • Wayne Aucion, Business Continuity Consultant
    waucoin@lsbdc.org or 504-831-3730        
  • Michael Oden (Loyola), Training Coordinator
    moden@lsbdc.org (504) 831-3730     
  • Tatiana Clay (Loyola), Client Relations/Bookkeeping
    tclay@lsbdc.org or 504-831-3730

The consulting team also includes contract professionals, graduate assistants, student workers and interns.

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