Small & emerging
business program

SEB Program Manager

Email: Lmartin@mccno.com

Number: (504) 582-3579 ext: 2646

LaToya Martin, CCA is the the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Small and Emerging Business (SEB) Program Manager. In this role Martin is tasked with developing and managing the Small and Emerging Business Opportunity Program, which is a small business program and a DBE set aside program designed to help promote the importance of diverse and small business inclusion at the Convention Center. Martin came to the Convention Center from the City of New Orleans, Office of Supplier Diversity. She served as Compliance Officer for two years and was later promoted to Senior Compliance Officer, where she managed a portfolio of $700 million dollars of Public and Private Sector funds. In that role, she also trained and supervised a staff of four compliance officers. Ms. Martin earned her B.A. in Sociology from the University of New Orleans. She also earned her Contract Compliance Administrator Certification from American Contract Compliance Association and Morgan State University for Continuing and Professional Studies. Aside from her professional life, Ms. Martin is engaged to Mr. Kelvin White, Jr. and together they have a daughter.