2024 SBA Small Business Person of The Year
San Diego's #1 Veteran Owned & Operated Janitorial Company
2024 SBA Small Business Person of The Year | San Diego's #1 Veteran Owned & Operated Janitorial Company
Wepa Commercial Cleaning is a fully integrated Janitorial and Disinfecting Company that provides a comprehensive, high-quality, and dependable cleaning solution for all your commercial, government, corporate, and industrial buildings. Our diligent management and work ethic are the key to our cleaning company's business philosophy and are critical to delivering consistent quality cleaning and disinfecting. We pride ourselves on making our management accountable to the client through direct access and interaction with our managing director.
2024 SBA Small Business Person of The Year
Francisco Rivera, President of Wepa Commercial Cleaning, and the recipient of the 2024 SBA Small Business Person of the Year award! Discover how Francisco’s leadership and dedication have driven Wepa Commercial Cleaning to new heights, making a significant impact in the San Diego community and beyond.
Our Values
Client oriented
- We serve our clients as if we were serving ourselves. We value their feedback and we use it to improve our work.
Eco-Friendly Oriented
- We carefully choose the best and most natural cleaning products that give amazing results.
Expansion / Growth
- We make ourselves known in the community; we create long-term relations, while constantly expanding. Therefore, we are always bringing in more people to work for us.
Our Mission
Aims to be a national market leader in the provision of cleaning services delivering reliable, quality, cost effective cleaning solutions to our customers.
DISINFECT
We specialize in state-of-the-art electrostatic sprayers and steam cleaners that can deliver the safest, most effective shield disinfectant over tile, grout, flooring, carpeting, curtains and draperies, and upholstery.
commercial
Wepa Commercial Cleaning is a partner in upholding your professional image in the workplace. Employees, vendors, and potential customers will feel uplifted when they come inside your building.
Carpet Cleaning
Our cleaning system sets us apart. Our customers keep coming back to us, because we provide services that work and keep their homes and apartments clean, right down to the little details.
Our Vision
Aims to be a national market leader in the provision of cleaning and disinfecting services delivering reliable, quality, cost-effective cleaning solutions to our customers.
Francisco Javier Rivera
Francisco Javier Rivera is the President and founder of Wepa Commercial Cleaning LLC and Wepa Group, headquartered in Chula Vista, California.
Raised in Bayamón, Puerto Rico and the Bronx, New York, Francisco enlisted in the U.S. Navy in August 1999, where he served 16 years as Military Police — including deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Recognized 10 times for leadership and management excellence during his service, he earned an MBA with a specialization in Mobile and Social Media Marketing from National University in 2015.
After transitioning out of the military, Francisco and his wife Delia identified an opportunity in commercial cleaning. In 2018, he founded Wepa Commercial Cleaning — and what started as a single-operator business quickly became California's most decorated veteran-owned janitorial company.
Wepa has been awarded contracts with the Port of Long Beach, the Port of San Diego, the County of San Diego, the City of San Diego, the San Diego Housing Commission, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture — representing more than $5 million in public sector work.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wepa disinfected over 55 million square feet of facilities and provided free disinfection services to more than 50 homes in the community.
Francisco has been named SBA Veteran Small Business of the Year (2023) and SBA Small Business Person of the Year (2024). He is a featured spokesperson for National University and has been profiled in US Veterans Magazine, SD Voyager, the LA Tribune, and the LA Wire.
1. Enduring Hardship
You have probably have heard this many times before now but you may have failed every single time you needed to put it into use. Francisco Rivera could have associated with the bad boys, gangs, and do drugs while ruining his life and give excuses that the hard time of living among the gangsters pushed him into it as some people do. Endure hardship and never take the easy door out into doing evil. Rivera endured disdain at school and rough neighborhood altogether. You can do it too.
2. Chase your Dream
This life may seem sometimes hostile and unwelcoming but only people that keep chasing their dreams and taking good steps to accomplish them finally do succeed. Rivera loved to be a leader and a mentor to his troops but was strict and required the highest level of standards among everyone he led, and with all that he still worked hard to graduate and earn a scholarship while he still nurtures the dream. Rivera’s words “Lesson is that you could be pushed to places you never wanted in life but your focus on the dream is what matters. You will find a way back on course if you still nurture it”.
3. Be Adaptive
Rivera adapted to situations in US Navy and US Army training and difficult drills which were necessary for success. He adapted his body and mind to the hard work for success and also did adapt to civilian life after he left the Navy to satisfy his love and desire for law enforcement.
4. Rejection but Never Dejected
He got a criminal justice degree and was still rejected when he taught he could work at the FBI and fulfill his lifelong dreams. Rejection could have caused dejection for him but he did not allow it. He found another interest and succeeded. Rejection does not define who we are as humans unless you allow it to define you.
5. Be Innovative
Francisco Rivera found a passion for business but he refused to follow the trend of service rendered by others. He made a difference in his own way to offer much more to clients and get popular and famous for it. There is always an inner urge to do less and go the way of the majority. Resist the urge and acknowledge that people that go the way of the majority are usually lost in the crowd. Be innovative and creative in every facet.
Awards
Entrepreneur of the Year
SB100
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Choose us because of our reputation for excellence. For more than 10 years, we've earned a name for quality and customer service.
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The experts at Wepa Commercial Cleaning are committed to providing thorough commercial cleaning service for our valued customers nationwide.
Our Bonded & Insured Cleaning Team:
Our company is fully bonded and insured, which means you can have peace of mind when you hire us as your commercial cleaning company.
Our Teams Consist of Fully Trained Employees:
It means every individual goes through a thorough screening process and then is trained in every aspect of our commercial cleaning services.
We Guarantee Our Work:
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