Robert Ozuna is a Harvard educated executive with thirty years of professional experience working for a research university, non-profit organizations, schools and private business. He has managed, researched, written and evaluated numerous competitive federal and state grant programs serving children, youth and families.

Mr. Ozuna is Chairman of the Board of RGI Corporation. Additionally, he serves as a principal consultant providing grant research, professional grant-writing, strategy development and program evaluation. Clients rely on him for current grant information and grant-writing expertise. Mr. Ozuna’s proven grant-writing skills have assisted many organizations in securing millions of dollars in federal and state grants to serve children, youth and families. His success rate for securing competitive grants is above the industry standard.

Mr. Ozuna’s responsibilities included leading and managing the grant-writing team at RGI. He worked with clients to establish grant-writing strategies and executing those strategies in responding to funding opportunities and securing identified grants. Mr. Ozuna also supervised corporate personnel and oversaw evaluation projects. He was responsible for negotiating all client contracts for services.

Mr. Ozuna is from the Yakima Valley in Washington State, a first-generation Latino college student, an English Language Learner and raised in a migrant farmworker family living in poverty. This unique experience provides him first-hand knowledge of the learning challenges, language barriers and cultural differences low-income and minority students encounter in pursuing educational and career goals. This knowledge provides him extraordinary insights into the needs of families and students and how to best address those needs when writing competitive grant applications serving these special high-need diverse populations.

Mr. Ozuna earned his Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration at Heritage University in 1991 and his Master of Public Administration at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government in 1994.