BEYA-WOC HALL OF FAME
Rhonda Mims Voya Foundation President Head, Voya Financial, Inc. office of corporate responsibility (ING U.S. recently rebranded as VOYA Financial) 2012 Women of Color Corporate Responsibility
Rhonda Mims ties key social issues to company business. She is responsible for Voya Financial, Inc.’s corporate strategy on children’s education, financial literacy and outreach to diverse communities.
Mims currently serves as an alliance
trustee for America’s Promise, and she sits on the Board of Directors of The Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Boston College of Corporate Citizenship and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s business civic leadership center.
She is also an active member of the executive leadership council. Prior to her current role, Mims was a member of ING’s external affairs team. She served as ethics officer and conducted government affairs for some of the Midwestern states and the city of Atlanta. Prior to that role, she was counsel with the ING U.S. litigation team, overseeing the management of outside counsel on litigation matters, and a territorial sales manager for ING.
Prior to joining ING, she served as an environmental civil litigation attorney with the Department of Justice and as a senior attorney with the National District Attorney Association’s American Prosecutor’s Research Institute. Mims received her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of South Carolina and a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
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Keith Ogboenyiya General Manager, Micro controller Business Unit Texas Instruments 2013 BEYA Special Recognition Honoree
Keith Ogboenyiya is the general
manager of Texas Instruments’ Motor Drive group, which is part of TI’s High Volume Analog and Logic business. From 2009 until taking his current role in January 2014, Keith led TI’s C2000 Microcontroller business within TI’s Embedded Processing division. During this time he led this high performance microcontroller product line to one of the fastest growing and most profitable product lines within TI.
Keith is an inspiration and mentor to aspiring engineers. His leadership and expertise in semiconductors for power electronics systems has led to TI’s products being widely adopted in systems such as heating and air conditioning, industrial motor drives, fluid pumps, digital power supplies, LED lighting, solar inverter systems, as well as smart utility metering. Keith’s unwavering commitment to innovating and leading a strong team are consistently recognized by his colleagues, and by others in the community.
Keith joined Texas Instruments in 2002 after graduating with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in mathematics from Morehouse College.
Sonya Sepahban SVP, Engineering Development & Technology General Dynamics 2012 Technologist of the Year
Sonya Sepahban’s technology drive
within her organization’s engineering functions led to the development of a center with a mission to enable transfer of technology into vehicles and programs to address the Armed Forces’ immediate needs. Prior to joining General Dynamics land systems division, Sepahban made her mark at Northrop Grumman, NASA Johnson Space Center, Lockheed Martin and a French aerospace company. At NASA, where she spent 10 years, she worked on programs such as the space shuttle, the International Space Station and crew rescue vehicle. She led a Euro- Japanese-NASA-Russian team as program manager of the crew escape capsule, which successfully modified the Russian Soyuz capsule as a lifeboat for astronauts orbiting earth in the space station. At Northrop Grumman she was president of mission excellence, and chief engineer for North Grumman Space Technology. Sepahban has also served on boards of various organizations such as Boys and Girls Clubs of America, California Academy of Math and Science, and Next Up, a leadership development program for high achieving early-career women. It will overcome traditional roadblocks to achieve enduring success in a new assignment or job. She earned a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1982 and a bachelor’s in business administration from France’s Institute of Political Sciences. Sepahban capped her portfolio with a master’s in chemical engineering from Rice University (1985) and a master’s in business administration from the University of Houston (1990).
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