Chris Pichardo is a Marketing Consultant with over 6+ years of experience in the small business space. He is currently Marketing Consultant at NJSBDC State HQ and Owner/Founder of a cloud-based lead generation agency – Niluma Media.

Chris started off a marketing career in 2013, writing Marketing plans for his own chiropractor and physical therapist! From there he realized he had a knack for marketing and continued to feed his curiosity. In 2017, he graduated from NJCU with a BA in Marketing with honors and having won a university-wide Marketing Plan competition but most importantly was the real world experience he was able to gain from the client base he served throughout his time in University.

Right before graduation he found the NJSBDC at NJCU where he 3x’d their client acquisition and event attendance and worked his way up from Intern to Marketing Director/ Consultant in 3 short years. In 2020, the NJSBDC State HQ took him in as Marketing Consultant at the state level and he incorporated himself as Niluma Media.

Today, Chris focuses on helping small business owners with their marketing via the NJSBDC and at Niluma Media he’s focused on creating lead generation & marketing systems real estate agents, teams, and brokers.