Julio Garcia of nuvoTV shares his journey to the HR spotlight. “I don’t want anyone who is here to just collect a check,” says Garcia, of recruiting talent. “You have to have a drive to succeed and a desire to be a part of a bigger cause.”
“Growing up in the Bronx, the YMCA was one of the few places I could go to stay off the streets,” says John Quiñones, who now serves as secretary and general counsel of the YMCA Retirement fund.
Having learned early in life to never give up, Linda Jimenez shares how her determination and passion have paid off as chief diversity officer of WellPoint, Inc.
Hector Vallejo breaks down how he’s helped drill into the Hispanic construction segment as multicultural marketing manager for Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Ron Alvarado chose an odd time to launch a recruitment-services company. In 2009, as the country was experiencing some of the most financially troubling times in history, the premise of Alvarado’s Novus Staffing Solutions was to find people jobs when no one was hiring.
As part of MasterCard’s US multicultural marketing team, LaKisha Garcia, director of US marketing for MasterCard Worldwide, spends her days developing programs that provide multicultural audiences with information about flexible and reliable payments tools.
Following a string of industry accolades, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, founder of San Francisco-based ODA Design Associates, sits down with HE to discuss why he runs his interior-design firm like a businessman—not an artist.