ABOUT JESSICA MARIE GUTIERREZ

JESSICA MARIE GUTIERREZ

Creator of thehispanicblog.com and Investor

Raised in a low-income neighborhood in Houston, Texas, Gutierrez is a young Latina, whose resilience and drive propelled her from humble beginnings to prominence in the business world. At the age of 21, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the University of Houston. Upon graduation, she relocated to Miami Beach where her career in Marketing/Public Relations unfolded.

• Lead the Public Relations department for a multi-billion dollar beauty company in over 100 countries.

• Produced over $1 billion dollars in free press and publicity for my clients from leading magazines, newspapers, television shows, movies and digital media with high user visibility.

• Lead Marketing campaigns that produced over $60,000,000 in Sales.

• Right hand to billionaire, Farouk Shami, for over 6 years.

• Worked in Hollywood with top notch celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, the Kardashians, etc.

• Speaker at CHI and BioSilk distributor meetings with over 5,000 people.

• Lead charity campaigns with celebrities such as Magic Johnson, Gene Simmons, Ryan Seacrest, the cast of Modern Family, the World Boxing Council, etc. that raised over $100,000.

• Directed dozens of commercials and photo shoots for my clients such as a Miss USA photo shoot that’s on YouTube, which currently has over 55,000 views https://youtu.be/E6Wvr59rwQw

• Managing Editor of an international hair magazine – CHI Magazine – that is distributed in over 100 countries.

• Got my client, Farouk Shami, to star in full television episodes of Celebrity Apprentice and put him on covers of WSJ and USA Today’s money sections.

• Headed the hair title sponsorship for the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA for six years.

• Headed hair sponsorships for New York, Los Angeles and Miami Fashion Week.

• Television Academy for Primetime Emmy Awards honored me for the contribution of Saturday Night Live’s Outstanding Hairstyling.

• Worked with two USA presidents – Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

• Ran a Governor’s campaign and lead Hispanic teams across Texas that produced over 87% of the Latino vote for my candidate in the democratic primary.

• Helped Harvard’s Kennedy School start their first Latino Leadership Initiative.

• Met with US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ater my Harvard initiative.

• Creator of The Hispanic Blog that was nominated twice by South by Southwest and Univision’s Social Revolución.

• Starred in a television pilot for with two other Latina publicists

• Real Estate and Private Equity Investor

• President of Locan Global