Contact: mauricio.ospina@hispanicbusiness.ca

 

Mauricio Ospina came to Canada in 1990 with a high school diploma and zero English. Today he’s an international market consultant with the Government of Ontario and, on his spare time, the reference for Hispanic professionals and businesspeople. He founded five business/professional associations – all operational, unlocked procurement and home ownership opportunities for the 2015 Pan American Games, contributed to four books, created the TLN 10 most influential Hispanic Canadians, Amigo Expo, and raised $230,000 in scholarships.

 

His non-stop community work has been profiled in Canada's mainstream media and formally recognized by Prime Ministers and at the Canadian Parliament. He is a Fellow at York University, and was twice nominee for the Ontario Premier’s awards, an inaugural awardee of Ryerson’s G. Raymond Chang Outstanding Volunteer Awards, named one of the 10 most successful Colombians in Canada, and Chair of the Hispanic Philanthropy Conference run by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Foundation for Philanthropy. He contributed to three York University books and the business bestseller Why Mexican Don’t Drink Molson. He was one of the 30 people featured in the book Latinos Who Inspire.  In 2017, Mauricio was inducted into the Canadian Who is Who - standard reference listing the top 10,000 Canadians selected on merit alone.