MIAMI REGIONAL CENTER, LLC
MIAMI, FLORIDA

. Our principals began working in the EB-5 arena in 1991 and have the necessary expertise to identify successful EB-5 projects and manage the entire EB-5 process. With more than 80 years of collective experience in the fields of immigration, corporate and securities law, investment banking, private equity and Fortune 500 CEO experience, our professionals have the unrivaled experience to be your EB-5 solution. Working with us will give immigrant investors and businesses alike, the benefit of our extensive experience in the EB-5 arena. We are an independent Regional Center with no affiliation with the commercial enterprises and projects we promote. We conduct extensive financial and operating due diligence, in-depth project risk and return analysis and rigorous compliance with our immigration and securities laws in order to provide the highest quality service and to ensure the objectives of all involved are met and that all EB-5 requirements are satisfied. Prior to founding the Regional Center, Brian was a partner in the international law firm Holland & Knight, LLP where he was a partner in the firm’s International and Cross Border Transactions Group and led the firm’s global business immigration and compliance practice. Brian is an experienced corporate transactional attorney and is widely recognized as a leading practitioner in the field of immigration law with substantial experience in the highly specialized area of EB-5 visas, which was instrumental in the founding of the Regional Center and its success since then. Brian worked on his first EB-5 project in 1991 and it remained a mainstay of his legal career. Charles is currently the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a consulting, merchant banking and private equity firm and he has over 16 years of capital markets and merchant banking experience, advising companies on expansion strategies, equity financings and mergers & acquisitions. He previously founded and led a financial services and investment banking firm which he grew to 60 offices in 7 countries with over $2 billion in assets. In August of 2002, Inc. magazine named it the 8th fastest growing privately held company in the U.S. and several national organizations selected Charles for the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award. Charles served on the Board of Directors of Winn-Dixie Stores, a Fortune 500 company that is one of the nation’s largest food retailers in the southeastern U.S. He is currently on the Advisory Council of Aetna, another Fortune 500 firm. He served for five years as Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy having been appointed by the Obama and Bush Administrations. For his service, in 2011 he received the Distinguished Public Service medal, one of the highest awards the U.S. Air Force can bestow on a civilian. He was also a White House Fellow during the Reagan Administration. Charles was the national spokesman for Amway Global, a leader in the $80 billion global direct selling industry. Charles was appointed by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to the seven member State Board of Education which is responsible for overseeing all public education systems in Florida with an annual budget exceeding $15 billion. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Florida State University Center for Hispanic Marketing Communications, a national hub for innovative research for marketing to Hispanic consumers. He has also published two bestselling books on leadership and success and is a guest columnist for CNN.com. Sol Trujillo is Chairman of the Board of Garcia Trujillo and is a highly experienced international business executive who brings 30 years of international business experience having served as CEO of three $50 billion market cap companies on three continents in the media communications space; US West (now Qwest), Orange (now France Telecom) and Telstra, the Australian communications company. Recognized as a broadband and wireless pioneer, he has a reputation as an innovator in the digital space, described by President Ronald Reagan’s science adviser as “the nation’s first digital telecom CEO.” Mr. Trujillo has managed operations and remains active in business affairs in both developed and emerging markets from China and South Asia to Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, including more than 20 countries around the world. At Telstra, Mr. Trujillo completed the company’s privatization and led an end-to-end transformation of a traditional government-owned telco into an integrated media-communications company with world-leading results. These achievements were recognized by his selection as “CEO of the Year” for 2008 by Australian Telecom Magazine. In the public sector, he served as a trade policy advisor to the Clinton and Bush administrations and remains active on public policy issues related to immigration, trade, productivity and fiscal affairs. In recognition of a lifetime of advocacy and commitment to workplace diversity, Sol received the Ronald H. Brown Corporate Bridge Builder Award from President Clinton in 1999. On September 29, President Obama signed a Continuing Resolution that extends the authorization of the EB-5 Regional Center program through December 9, 2016 which takes effect immediately and does not change the program. The Continuing Resolution was approved earlier by the U.S. Congress and was necessary in order to provide short-term federal spending legislation to prevent a government shutdown at the start of the new U.S. fiscal year on October 1. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Vermont on Thursday filed civil fraud charges against Jay Peak, Inc. owners Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger accusing them of misusing more than $200 million from EB-5 investors. Long the darling of the EB-5 industry, the SEC and Vermont allege the fraud by the two owners started in 2008 with the purchase of the Jay Peak ski resort. Quiros also owns the nearby Q Burke resort which was seized by the authorities. The federal complaint states one of the projects, the AnC Bio research facility, has from the beginning been “rampant with fraud” and is now years behind schedule. Federal investigators allege Quiros and Stenger made “bogus claims” to investors by saying they had applied for Food and Drug Administration approval for the facility’s biomedical products, such as artificial organs and a liver replacement device. In reality, according to the allegations, the businessmen had failed to submit any products for FDA approval. “Quiros has secretly used most of the money raised for the research facility’s construction to pay off and pay down a margin loan and to misappropriate approximately $30 million for his own use,” the complaint states.