Past President and Chief Executive Officer
META
Maria Elena Torano, now retired, has been a successful entrepreneur and business owner with long-time experience providing services in the environmental, management consulting, and financial advisory fields for varied United States and international clients.
As President, Chief Executive Officer, and sole owner of Maria Elena Torano Associates, Inc. META an environmental, management consulting, and financial advisory firm, Ms. Torano provided services to Federal, state and international clients. Ms. Torano founded META in 1980, formulating and executing strategies that produced a company with revenues of more than $25 million and 300 employees. Last year Ms. Torano sold META to her two sons.
She has a thorough understanding of, and a unique insight into the political, socio-economic, cultural and business environments of many areas in the world, but especially in Latin American, Western Europe and Southeast Asia.
Ms. Torano was educated at the University of Havana and has pursued continuing education in Business Management, Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs. She is fluent in Spanish and can read French and Italian. She is married to Leonard H. Chusmir, and has two sons; Eric and Arthur Torano.
