Industry Leaders
Explore stories of top industry leaders shaping the future. Hispanic Executive highlights influential figures driving innovation and success
As chief people officer and executive vice president of Dallas-based ACS, the BPO [business process outsourcing] and ITO [IT outsourcing] services division of Xerox Corp., Lora Villarreal has dedicated her life to the people around her.
As a diversity expert with more than 22 years of experience, Lorie Valle-Yanez was brought onboard to MassMutual Financial Group to implement an internal diversity and inclusion strategy that’s earned accolades from employees and executives alike.
Reliant Energy’s Manny Rodriguez connects with national sports teams and their fans to create sustainable solutions. “It is one venue where all is put aside and everyone comes together for a common goal, which is to root for their team,” Rodriguez says.
Close friends and powerful Latinas Monica Gil and Angela Mariana Freyre discuss with Hispanic Executive how their mentor-mentee bond helped propel them to new career heights.
As president of 42-year-old advocacy organization Chicago United, Gloria Castillo oversees groundbreaking initiatives aimed at building multicultural business leadership in the Windy City and beyond.
George Flores worked in almost every department of Crystex Composites LLC before becoming president and CEO. Little did he know, his experience would give him the ability and endurance to guide the changing company through rocky times.
Alvarado Construction, Inc. isn’t just breaking concrete—it’s crushing stereotypes. As its CEO and president, Linda Alvarado hits a home run in a male-dominated field with still enough time to co-own a Major League Baseball team.
Often hailed as the Second City, Chicago is on a league of its own when it comes to opportunities for multicultural business, particularly for the 38,000 Hispanic-owned enterprises which call the city home.
Charged with helping lead L’Oréal’s diversity marketing efforts, Daniel Villarroel has emerged as a true trailblazer, brainstorming campaigns that resonate with the Hispanic female audience.
Long before Art Hurtado founded the national-security firm Invertix Corporation, Hurtado was set on becoming a pirate. He eventually settled on navigating the choppy waters of government contracting as one of the industry’s most nimble—and fearless—visionaries.
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.
With his depth of experience with foreign cultures, Ricardo de la Blanca is a true international man of marketing. Born in Venezuela to the wealthy owners of Grupo Tropicana, de la Blanca was an apprentice before many of his peers reached high school.