LATINOS ON BOARDS THE 2019 LIST
Age: 67
Member of the Board’s Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee. He has fifteen years of experience in senior management positions and over twenty-five years of exposure at all management levels in the information and telecommunications industries. He was CEO for Lucent Technologies, Mexico and a department head at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
MANUEL FIGUEROA COLLAZO President Vernet Inc. Boards
Triple S Management (743)
Age: 63 Missouri
RAFAEL FLORES Former Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Luminant Corporation
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Rafael served as a Chief Nuclear Officer and Senior Vice President of Luminant Generation Company LLC from 2009 to 2015. Mr. Flores's responsibilities included overseeing operations of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Texas and representing Luminant with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the Nuclear Energy Institute and on various committees and working groups in the nuclear industry. He is one of the great leaders in the nuclear industry and has decades of experience in safely and efficiently running nuclear energy facilities.
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LIDIA L. FONSECA Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and
In a prior role, she was the Senior Vice President and CIO at Quest Diagnostics. Lidia received the 2017 Forbes CIO Innovation Award, and she is a founding member of Synaptic Health Alliance, leading healthcare companies using Blockchain technology to improve provider data quality. Lidia is a member of the Board of Directors of Tegna, Inc. She earned a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA and Master Business Informatics from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Graduate School of Business.
Technology Officer, Pfizer Inc.
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Tegna (820)
Age: 70
JORGE L. FUENTES-BENEJAM Chairman and CEO, of Gabriel Fuentes Jr. Construction
Director Since April 2008. Fuentes-Benejam, was chairman of the board, president and CEO from 1986 until 2010, he is also CEO of Fuentes Concrete Pile Co. Inc., a precast concrete pile manufacturing business, and related entities. He is a member of the Board’s Compensation Committee and the Investment and Finance Committee. Currently, Fuentes-Benejam is a member of the board of trustees of Interamerican University, Puerto Rico’s largest private university.
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LATINO LEADERS JULY / AUGUST 2019
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Triple S Management (743)
Age: 57 New York City, NY
ART A. GARCIA EVP & CFO Ryder System Boards
Art has held several senior-level positions since joining Ryder in 1997, including the roles of Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer and Group Director of Accounting Services. Prior to joining Ryder, he spent 14 years with the Miami office of the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand LLP as Senior Manager of Business Assurance.
ABM Industries (498)
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