Erika Casillas Increasing diversity in finance

Age: 31

Title: Finance Lead

Organization: AbbVie

Erika Casillas grew up in the Chicagoland suburbs along with her two younger sisters. Her parents migrated from the Mexican states of Michoacan and Guerrero in their early teens. Casillas was the first in her family to attend a four-year university. After her graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in accountancy and in 2015 with a master’s degree in accountancy, she began her career at Ernst & Young within the financial service office providing assurance, and then moved to AbbVie.

Casillas currently works within corporate finance at AbbVie, doing financial planning and analysis and helping her team accomplish key goals. Additionally, Casillas works to make an impact within AbbVie’s diversity and inclusion