AWARD WINNERS
MR. DREW VALENTINE, ESQ. Dave Barclay Affi rmative Action
Vice President, People & Culture IBM Systems
Drew Valentine, Vice President, People and Culture for IBM Systems, has been a strong pillar in the diversity space since his tenure at Michigan State University. Throughout his career, Drew has been committed to the development and advancement of underrepresented minorities. In addition to his “day job,” he serves as the Senior HR Advisor to IBM’s Black Executive Council to ensure that IBM attracts, retains, and develops the best talent from their constituency and creates an inclusive environment that enables people to be authentically themselves and one in which candid cross- constituency dialogue and relationships are the norm. In his current position, he leads the team responsible for talent management, leadership development, and organizational capability of IBM’s 30,000+ technology innovators with
MR. DEREK MCGOWAN The Dean’s Award
Diversity Outreach Program Manager Lockheed Martin Corporation
global responsibility for all aspects of IBM’s middleware, servers, and storage as well as IBM’s Global Business Partners. He is a member of the IBM Chairman’s Growth & Transformation Team, which is accountable for transforming IBM’s culture by engaging all IBM managers in new ways of leading, working, and growing the business. Drew has held several HR and legal positions since joining IBM in 1988, including serving as the fi rst Director of Global Equal Opportunity and Marketplace Initiatives working for J. Ted Childs.
With Lockheed Martin since 2001, Derek McGowan is now the program manager of the Minority Serving Institution Strategy, where he drives the implementation of diversity and inclusion eff orts in STEM programs, relationship building, student development, and recruiting at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-serving Institutions. He is responsible for strengthening partnerships and enhancing the diversity pipeline of technical talent, and he ensures knowledge sharing, coordination, communication, assessment, and enhancement of the company’s activities associated with MSIs. He develops strategic plans for programs while working as a business partner with executives and other leaders to develop a robust diversity and inclusion strategy and program. At Tuskegee University, for example, his support for the college’s pre-engineering FASTREC program has been exemplary. Through McGowan’s actions, at least 40 pre-engineering high school students are impacted each summer as they receive math and science prep before they join the Tuskegee University College of Engineering program as freshmen. McGowan has been a role model to students, giving seminars and delivering keynote speeches at the university’s pre-college summer programs. He received an undergraduate degree from St. Leo University and has two classes to complete to receive a dual master’s degree in HR management and training and development from Webster University.
2018
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CONFERENCE ISSUE 2018
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