Valeria Bisceglia

Business Advisor &

Training Coordinator

CT Small Business Development Center

Valeria is a Business Advisor & Training Coordinator at the CT Small Business Development Center. One of her first entrepreneurial experiences was selling “Keep It” erasers – small, but quality erasers threaded with a string that you could tie to your pencil so that you wouldn’t lose them all the time and be stuck with the terrible pencil-top erasers.

Since then, she studied business and chemistry, started other enterprises, ran a variety of small businesses, and graduated from New York University with an MBA focused on Social Innovation & Impact. Her engineering background makes her annoyingly data oriented, which she pours into her work with clients when discussing ways to grow their business or “knocking some sense” into new ideas to shore them up.

Valeria is an advocate for social entrepreneurship, and various causes centered around equal access to food, education, and economic opportunity.