Linda A. Rueda has been a successful entrepreneur for more than 15 years with 30 years experience in Data Processing. She is the founder, President & CEO of Ideal Data, Inc., a Data Processing and Direct Marketing company.

Ms. Rueda has been the recipient of many awards and acknowledgments with several articles written. Linda was awarded the Innovation Marketing Masters Award from INC. Magazine in 1997. In March 1995, she was interviewed by Andrea Hall from NBC News at the International Trade Show held in Secaucus. In 1995 and again in 1996, INC. Magazine selected Linda as the candidate for Entrepreneur of the year. The Bergen County Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce recognized Linda two years in a row, 1996 and 1997 with the Outstanding Member award. In addition to her awards, several articles have been written in the Bergen Record, Minority Business Journal of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Business News Magazine and the New York/New Jersey Minority Purchasing Councils newsletter. She believes in giving back to the community by speaking at Elizabethtown Gas Company on Public Relations Helps Business Grow and at Rutger’s School of Business, New Brunswick on How To Start A Business. Linda participated as a panelist at Governor Whitman’s Conference for Women held on March 28, 2000 at the Skylands in New Jersey.

In addition to running her business, Ms. Rueda is Vice-President, for the BPU Supplier Diversity Development Council and was Second Vice President of The Bergen County Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce. Linda is a proud member of the NY/NJ Minority Purchasing Council and an active member the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey.

The daughter of a Spanish immigrant from Spain, Linda attended East Side High School, Newark New Jersey and is a graduate of GE Small Business College.