Our People

At Laisar we believe that an organization that directly engages with its local community is a stronger company and here at Laisar we provide the services and tools that are used to collect, monitor and measure the economic and social impact of jobs creation, small and diverse business spend.

Our team enables organizations to think differently about community engagement and socio-economic impact by leveraging our proprietary data science and analytics platform to develop economic inclusion strategies.

Our Implementors, System Architects, Business Analysts and other experts collaborate to help business leaders target, manage, measure, and report sustainability performance while others get ahead.

Our big vision

Our big vision for Laisar is to harness the power of information and data to improve the lives of people.

We aim to expand our services across the United States and the rest of the world, and to be recognized globally as a management consulting firm delivering operations management and innovative technology solutions that help organizations understand how their products and services impact the communities in which they operate and how they can use data to achieve sustainability and have a greater social and economic impact on their surrounding communities.

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly seeing the value of doing business with local supply chains and specifically with diverse businesses within their communities.

Meet our Founder and CEO: Florence Amate

Understanding the process of combing through the enterprise to collect, organize and analyze data to assess operational realities.

Our reputation has been built by taking large amounts of data and information and communicating all of it in such a way that is easy for all stakeholders and decision makers to understand. We pride ourselves on showing our customers new and innovative ways of looking at their internal data and ensuring outcomes that improve their bottom line and exceed supplier diversity goals.

Florence Amate

Florence Amate

Founder and CEO

Frank Welffens

Frank Welffens

EVP and COO

Miladis Palacios

Miladis Palacios

Director of Operations

Jerome S. Paige, PhD

Jerome S. Paige, PhD

Economist

Glinda Jackson

Glinda Jackson

Economic Inclusion Manager

Amanda S. Lee

Amanda S. Lee

Project Manager

Elili Desissa

Elili Desissa

Business Analyst

Chad Pantin

Chad Pantin

Systems Analyst

Hiwot Ergete

Hiwot Ergete

Data Analyst

Adetowo Oyewumi

Adetowo Oyewumi

Project Development Manager