The DMV (Washington, DC | Maryland | Virginia) Business Show

In this week's episode we have Lynda Ellis , Owner, President, and CEO of Capitol Concierge with headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland!  It is a global concierge company that takes care of everything.  She was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and did not leave the area until she was 22 years old.  Lynda was raised by a single father who was born in Belfast, Ireland and taught...

Ana-Maria Jaramillo is the Owner and Founder of Voz Speech Therapy and Co-Founder of La Tejana in Washington, DC!  She is a bilingual speech language pathologist with Voz Speech Therapy, helping children increase their quality of life by assisting them with their feeding, swallowing, and communication skills primarily working with children from 1-5 years of age.  Both of her parents are...

This is the latest episode of Commercial Real Estate Question!  Where anyone can ask a commercial property question and I will help answer it.  Today we will focus on the question, "What Is A Warm Vanilla Shell?" Enjoy!  Let me know what you thought. Have a commercial real estate question, and I will feature yours? Email Me!  osevilla@ottosevilla.com Text Me!  240-706-7584...

In this week's episode we have Pramod Raheja, CEO of Airgility with offices in College Park, Maryland!  They do artificial intelligence and autonomy for unmanned robotics systems, basically they build robots and do AI in them.  Growing up he lived in different places until he was 12 when he moved to the DMV area and has been here ever since.  His love of airplanes and spaceships sta...

Iris Veronica Jimenez is Chef, Culinary Director, and Managing Partner of La Casita Pupuseria with five locations in the DMV area!  They have deep-rooted traditions in Central American culture and cuisine, and believers that food is a universal language that brings people together.  We chat about the origins of the restaurant which it all started with her parents who emigrated from El Sa...

This is the latest episode of Commercial Real Estate Question!   Where anyone can ask a commercial property question and I will help answer it.  Today we will focus on the question, "What Is Usable Square Feet vs. Rentable Square Feet?" Enjoy!  Let me know what you thought. Have a commercial real estate question, and I will feature yours? Email Me!  osevilla@ottosevilla.co...

In this week's episode we have Gautam Ijoor , President and CEO of Alpha Omega Integration with offices in Tysons Corner, Virginia!  They build mission focused solutions for the federal government and different sectors.  His entrepreneurial journey started in his birthplace Bangalore, India where he saw a demand and started an underage nightclub and leased a space from a failing restaura...

David Benson is the President of Architessa with headquarters in Rockville, Maryland!  They are a comprehensive tile and stone company that was started in 1985 with locations along the East Coast all the way down to Atlanta, Georgia.  David grew up in Montgomery County Maryland in the family business.  He clearly remembers, Friday nights were not pizza and movie nights but pizza and...

This is the latest episode of Commercial Real Estate Question!   Where anyone can ask a commercial property question and I will help answer it.  Today we will focus on the question, "How Much Money Do I Need For A Lease?" Enjoy!  Let me know what you thought. Have a commercial real estate question, and I will feature yours? Email Me!  osevilla@ottosevilla.com Text Me! &nbs...

In this week's episode we have Tim Prindle , Co-President and CEO of BayVanguard Bank based out of Baltimore, Maryland and with 16 locations in Maryland!  The bank lends locally in Maryland and in certain asset classes nationwide.  He is originally from Yorba Linda in Southern California and lived there until he was 18 years old when he moved to attend University of Delaware.  His r...

Anabella Arcay is the Owner, CEO, and Master Chocolatier of Arcay Chocolates in Washington, DC!  They are an internationally awarded Master Chocolatier with 42 awards!  At a young age she was very artistic and entrepreneurial first making artisanal cards, leather belts, then moved onto purses, and shirts until she found chocolate.   Arcay Chocolates was first started in Venezuela 15...

This episode is the newest installment of Commercial Real Estate Question!  Where anyone can ask a commercial property question and I will help answer it.  Today we will focus on the question, "What is Key Money?" Enjoy!  Let me know what you thought. Have a commercial real estate question, and I will feature yours?   Email Me!  osevilla@ottosevilla.com Text Me!  240-...

In this week's episode we have Craig Zingerline , he is the Founder and CEO of Growth University located in the Washington, DC metro area!  He grew up in Central New York in Rome, New York and is a long time runner that he started working around the summer of 10th grade teaching children track and began his first "business" building websites.  After graduating from Syracuse University he...

Welcome to the Season 2 Premier of The DMV Business Show with our guest Samantha McKenna !  Sam is the Founder of #samsales Consulting out of the Washington, DC metro area.  She is an award-winning sales leader who is on a mission to make a positive impact on the sales profession by helping organizations improve their sales, marketing, demand generation, and finance.  Originall...

Season 1 has officially ended, that is a wrap.  Please stay tuned for Season 2 coming out next month in September!  We have some special changes coming!  Thank you for everyone who has taken the time to listen to us, greatly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart - it means a lot to me!  If you have not done so already, please go to Apple I-tunes and leave us a review and co...

Corey Lockhart is the Founder and President of WML Enterprises, LLC with offices in Leesburg, Virginia!  They are the premier demolition and site work construction company in the area.  He is the 4th and 5th generation in Northern Virginia and grew up in Chantilly, Virginia.  He tried his hand in college and it was not for him, he decided to join his fathers landscaping company for...

In this week's episode we have Burak Temel , he is the Owner of not one but several companies Urban Boxing , Saint Construction , and Med Depot located in Northern Virginia and with locations in Washington, DC and Maryland!  Born and raised in Arlington, Virginia he did a lot sports growing up, started wrestling at 8 years old and continued it all through college and we talk about the great b...

Mike Kirby is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumina Solar with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland!  He was born and raised in North Baltimore County in Parkton, Maryland.  Over the college summers while attending University of Delaware him and his friend started a driveway sealing business that did well and they learned a lot.  After college graduation he went straight into the solar bu...

In this week's episode we have Christina Daves of PR For Anyone from Northern Virginia!  She was born and raised in Vienna, Virginia and went to Virginia Tech and now lives in Prince William County.  She is a serial entrepreneur, she owned a retail store in Haymarket, Virginia that she sold to a friend and when she broke her foot she had to wear a boot and saw a need for a fashionable me...

Sophia Maroon is the Founder and CEO of SoFine Food, LLC that produces Dress It Up Dressing located in Bethesda, Maryland!  She was born and raised in Washington, DC, went to college in the United Kingdom and spent four years studying in Scotland .  While working at the World Bank in Washington, DC she saw a film about a report they worked on and fell in love with film making which led t...

In this week's episode we have Martin Mayorga , Founder and CEO of Mayorga Organics with offices in Rockville, Maryland!  You cannot miss their yellow coffee bags with red lettering in Costco.  He was born in Guatemala and due to the massive earthquake ended up moving to Nicaragua which is where his father is from, he lived in Nicaragua for several years and fled because of the revolutio...

Debra Moser is the Owner and Founder of Central Farm Markets and President of MeatCrafters in Landover, Maryland!  Central Farm Markets was first started in a small parking lot with 17 vendors in Bethesda, Maryland and it now has three farm markets in Maryland and Virginia.  MeatCrafters is the top and only USDA charcuterie company in the DMV and Pennsylvania area.  Debra was born i...

In this week's episode we have Artin Safarian , CEO and President Arminco with headquarters in Sterling, Virginia!  They are the premier dental, medical, restaurant, and retail space construction build-out and full project management provider.  He is Armenian and was born in Iran, left Iran in 1st grade and first stayed in New Delhi, India for around two and half years before immigrating...

Jordan Foley is the Founder and CEO of Chow in Annapolis, Maryland!  He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Growing up he was into football and cooking with his grandma and his large Italian family.  He graduated at the top of his class at The United States Naval Academy and went to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for a two year graduate program, and he rec...

In this week's episode we have George Dukas , CEO and Co-Founder of Send Smiles with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia!  They provide on-demand, hand-delivered flowers that are farm direct and cold chain preserved with transparent pricing.  He was born and raised in Falls Church, Virginia, played basketball and golf in high school and college at George Washington University.  Alwa...