Alan Radevski Creating a future rooted in the past

Age: 35

Title: Sales Manager

Organization: CDW

Alan Radevski looks to his past and uses it as motivation. He was born in Chicago and grew up in Chicagoland, but his mother was born and raised in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She and her four sisters grew up poor and without a father.

Radevski’s abuelita persevered and worked hard to provide for her daughters. When they came to Chicago in the early 1980’s, his mother used the perseverance she had learned and went to college at the University of Illinois Chicago where she earned a degree in chemical engineering. His father was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after his grandfather immigrated to Argentina from Macedonia. His grandfather’s journey motivates Radevski to succeed.

Radevski believes himself lucky to have worked for CDW for 11 years. The culture of diversity at CDW has motivated him each day to be the best that he can be. He is currently a sales manager in the healthcare academy segment and is a proud member of the Hispanic organization for leadership and achievement, a business resource group, and serves on the professional development committee.

Age: 39

Title: Chief of Staff to the CFO of International Sales Organization: Lenovo

Perez is a results-oriented strategy professional, with 14-plus years of experience in finance strategy, corporate strategy, management consulting, and operations.

As a chief of staff to the CFO, Perez is responsible for driving the strategy of the finance organization by working closely with the different business teams, as well as developing new frameworks and analyses to move thinking forward.

Perez joined Lenovo in 2018 as part of the Motorola Global Strategy team (a Lenovo company), where he focused on driving growth strategy.

Prior to joining Lenovo, Perez spent five years in management consulting. During this time, he worked for Strategy& (part of PricewaterhouseCoopers) and Argo Consulting (a boutique management consulting firm), where he helped his clients win a competitive advantage across multiple industries and countries. He has done this through operating model redesign, process and cost optimization, project leadership, and change management.

He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from UPM in Madrid, the Six Sigma black belt certification and the project management professional certification.