At Hispanic Executive, we spotlight business’ most influential Latino leaders—those shaping strategy, driving innovation, and redefining what leadership looks like across industries.
In our August Executives to Watch 2026 list, we highlight a powerful group of Hispanic and Latino executives who are leading transformation in finance, technology, operations, and beyond—proving that impact comes from both vision and execution in today’s global marketplace.
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Carlos Colson
Director, Global Supply Chain
Corning Life Sciences
Carlos Colson has spent his career proving that a supply chain is, at its core, a people problem. As a global business leader specializing in supply chain strategy, operational transformation, and organizational leadership, he has built and led large-scale teams and operations across the United States and Latin America, driving growth and operational excellence for Fortune 500 companies along the way. Today he serves as Director of Global Supply Chain at Corning Life Sciences, where the discipline he has honed across markets meets an industry in which precision and continuity are not optional. A graduate of the MIT Sloan Executive MBA program, Carlos is as invested in developing talent as he is in optimizing systems, and he has made expanding opportunities for Hispanic professionals a throughline of his leadership. His conviction is that business can be a force for positive impact, creating value for organizations while strengthening the communities they serve.
Connect with Carlos Colson on LinkedIn here.
Fernanda Tassara
Executive Director and Counsel, Talent, Intellectual Property and Licensing
The Estée Lauder Companies
Fernanda Tassara planned to become a doctor until she noticed how often she was saying that something was not fair. Born and raised in Chile, she went to law school there instead, added a diploma in antitrust, and began her career in a federal court before moving in house at the shipping company CSAV. What followed was a series of deliberate pivots: a corporate insurance and risk management role in New Jersey in 2016, a move to Panama, and then a position as assistant counsel at The Estée Lauder Companies handling contracts, procurement, and licensing. Seven years later she is Executive Director and Counsel for Talent, Intellectual Property and Licensing, overseeing trademarks, patents, and a licensing team that works alongside creative operations on everything from influencer partnerships and sponsorships to placing product in film and television. Her instinct is to avoid saying no unless the risk is genuinely severe, and to offer a solution instead. She is candid about why the path matters. You can change direction, start again, and still build something, and she wants other lawyers to hear it.
Connect with Fernanda Tassara on LinkedIn here.
Jose Molina
Senior Director, Global Procurement
Constellation Brands
Jose Molina is a mechanical engineer who found his way into procurement because someone needed the work done. He joined a used equipment organization to help sort out its purchasing, moved on to Philips, and arrived at Constellation Brands having learned a discipline that almost nobody sets out to study. Today he oversees the company’s entire indirect procurement function, building strategy and owning delivery all the way to the facilities, with a team of forty behind him and a daily measure of success that is refreshingly concrete: the beer gets loaded. After fifteen years of growth, he is guiding the organization through the shift from builder to operator, stabilizing ways of working while leveraging AI to optimize how his teams run. He is also candid about what he wants this platform to do. Hispanic professionals, in his view, are underleveraged and too rarely moved into the bigger opportunities they have earned, and he hopes his own path motivates the people watching. His family comes first, and the years he spent playing American football in college in Mexico still shape how he approaches a challenge and how he leads through one.
Connect with Jose Molina on LinkedIn here.
Rodrigo Prado
SVP of Operations
TA Connections (A Corpay Company)
Rodrigo Prado’s career reads like a map of how operations work has changed. He began in supply chain, manufacturing, and quality assurance, building a foundation in process discipline, productivity, service quality, and continuous improvement, then watched that foundation expand into project management, enterprise transformation, global operations, and shared services leadership. The result is a leader who sits at the intersection of operational excellence and technology-enabled business services. As SVP of Operations at Corpay’s TA Connections, he leads the modernization of global service delivery for a business that arranges accommodations for airline crews, distressed passengers, and corporate travelers, work that leaves no room for a soft handoff. Under his direction, the organization’s operating model has advanced through technology implementations, contact center modernization, automation initiatives, Centers of Excellence, and global shared services, producing a service platform that is more scalable, more integrated, and built for what comes next.
Connect with Rodrigo Prado on LinkedIn here.
Giuseppe Robbiano
Chief Information Officer
Atlas
Giuseppe Robbiano grew up in a house without a computer and built a career on the machines he eventually taught himself to use. Raised in Piura, Peru, he bought his first computer as a teenager, studied systems engineering at the University of Lima, and graduated in 1996 into an early career spent programming, consulting, and implementing ERP systems for companies across manufacturing and government. That work took him from Peru to Milwaukee and eventually to Houston, where he moved into IT management and worked with more than eighty companies before spending four years as Vice President of IT at Cooper Machinery Services. He joined Atlas as Chief Information Officer in November 2024, where he oversees IT strategy, cybersecurity, and an enterprise AI program staffed by champions embedded across the business. His approach to both is unsentimental: find the ROI, work smarter rather than harder, and assume a breach is a matter of when rather than if. His approach to his team is the opposite of unsentimental. He tells them no idea is bad, that it is okay to break things, and that good outcomes come from good teams rather than from him.
Connect with Giuseppe Robbiano on LinkedIn here.
Ramón Zapata
Chief Financial Officer
BioNTech
Ramón Zapata has built a career at the point where science meets the balance sheet. A seasoned global finance executive with more than twenty-five years in the pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries, he has held leadership roles at Novartis AG, Sandoz AG, and Mondelēz International, working across Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East. Throughout, he has led finance functions that enable seamless execution from drug discovery through commercialization, overseeing M&A transactions and their integrations while driving digital transformation inside the finance organization itself. Before joining BioNTech, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Scientific Operations for BioMedical Research at Novartis, responsible for the division’s finance strategy and operations, portfolio realignment, cross-functional integration, and strategic external collaborations. A dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, Ramón is a Certified Public Accountant from Universidad Panamericana and holds an MBA from IPADE Business School, with academic credits earned at IESE Business School, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Tax Legislation from ITAM.
Connect with Ramón Zapata on LinkedIn here.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI.
