Popular State Senator to Speak at Global Conference

State Senator Sam Zamarripa, one of the first three Hispanic lawmakers in the Georgia Legislature, will be a featured speaker at the 2003 Global People Skills conference. A firm believer that "globalization is here to stay", Senator Zamarripa will talk about the economic strengths of ethnicity.

(PRWEB) August 11, 2003 -- One of three Hispanic freshmen in the Georgia Legislature, Senator Sam Zamarripa will be among the featured speakers at the upcoming Global People Skills conference.

Organized in partnership with Georgia State Universitys J. Mack Robinson College of Business and to be held October 28 and 29 at the Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT), the conference model was created by local speaker and author Karla Brandau, President of People Skills International.

This is our third year of presenting the Global People Skills conference in Atlanta", said Brandau in a recent interview, and it promises to be our best yet. With the GSU partnership and the participation of popular speakers such as Senator Zamarripa, who have real, hands-on international and multi-ethnic business experience, the attendees are in for a true learning feast."

Sam Zamarripa was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 2002, representing District 36. In addition, he is a Founder and Managing Partner of Diaz-Verson Ventures, LLC, an investment-banking services firm. He is a Co-Founder and Director of United Americas Bank, N.A., where he currently serves as the Chairman of the Marketing Committee. He is also a director of Diaz-Verson Capital Incorporated and Diaz Foods, Incorporated, and an advisory director of Atlanta Medical Center, a Tenet Healthcare hospital in Atlanta.

At the 2003 Global People Skills conference, Sam Zamarripa will be addressing The Economic Strength of Ethnicity". A born entrepreneur, coalition builder and community leader, Zamarripa firmly believes that globalization is here to stay". It will not go away", he told an international audience at DeVry University earlier this year, so, we had better all learn how to behave, how to communicate and how to do business in this multi-national, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic world, using our growing diversity as a strength for economic growth."

Details of the conference, speaker biographies, including Sam Zamarripas, a registration form and other pertinent facts of the conference are available at http://www.globalpeopleskills.com/.