MOST INFLUENTIAL HISPANICS IN TECHNOLOGY
Juan Sepúlveda Director
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
Juan Sepúlveda is responsible for directing the White House Initiative in engaging Hispanic students, parents, families, organizations; and anyone working with the education system nationwide to improve the academic achievement of Hispanic Americans. For the last 20 years, Mr. Sepúlveda has been a senior executive, strategist, and advocate in the nonprofit and philanthropic communities. Prior to assuming his current position at the Department, Mr. Sepúlveda was president of The Common Enterprise
(TCE), which he founded in 1995 as an outgrowth of a national Rockefeller Foun- dation initiative to help build stronger communities across America by making nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, governments, businesses, and communities more effective as they tackled significant critical social issues in more than 35 states and nationally.
Henry O.
Hernandez, Jr. Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion SAIC
Henry O. Hernan- dez, Jr. is a natural leader; he takes on opportunities as they arise and
Javier Palomarez President & CEO
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Javier Palomarez is one of the nation’s preemi- nent multicultural sales and marketing execu- tives. He is a sought-after spokesperson, thought- leader and strategist on the issues affecting America’s consumers, particularly those in the Hispanic community. His opinions and points of view have appeared in leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, USA Today and many others. Most recently, Mr. Palomarez served as vice president of multicultural marketing at ING Financial Services, where he was recruited to lead diversity out- reach programs. He was responsible for market- ing, sponsorships, public relations and external communications to help position this global leader in the financial services industry.
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creates new ones when he needs to. As VP of Diversity & Inclusion for SAIC, a leading scientific, engineering and technology company that helps create and implement solutions for a variety of global issues, he provides strategic directives that affirm an enterprise-wide commitment to diversity. His work ensures that every employee’s voice is heard. He is also the co-founder, and served as the first president of The Na- tional Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHM- BA); the group was formed to increase Hispanic visibility in the C-suite and the boardroom.
Maria E. Ruess Vice President, Busi- ness Development, Integrated Defense Technologies Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors
Maria Ruess has a record for captur-
ing new business and growing exist- ing business in defense systems, space and terrestrial carrier services, global transmission services, and surveillance. She has served in a number of business development, program management, as well as engineering and finance positions with Lockheed Martin’s Global Telecom subsidiary, COMSAT, and MCI. She taught science for nine years at her local school, and continues to volunteer with Hispanic College Fund scholar- ship recipients, and Hispanic Congres- sional Caucus fellows. Additionally, she supports African American Leadership Forum panels and the Hispanic Leader- ship Council. She also serves as a board member for HENAAC, is a member of the Society of Women Engineers, executive committee member of the Lockheed Martin Hispanic Leadership Council, and a member of the Hispanic Mentoring and Leadership Association.
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