Brian Serrano, who was born in Miami and moved to Tampa in 2012, is passionate about making a difference in his community.
“My family is originally from Puerto Rico and I was raised in both a Puerto Rican and Cuban household. I like to associate myself as being CubaRican!” said Serrano. “It’s really about helping others and either watching an individual or watching a business grow, especially business or members of the community that are underserved.”
Serrano is on the mayor of Tampa’s Hispanic Advisory Council and was chair from 2020 to 2024. During his tenure as chair, they raised more than a million dollars in scholarships for students and created a mentorship program called DALE, which stands for Development Accelerated for Latinos Education. The idea is to surround students with different types of working professionals to expand their horizons and ideas of what’s possible for them. “It encourages them, inspires them to either go to college or to establish a business of their own,” said Serrano…