2018
AWARD WINNERS
Ms. Verett Mims Rodney Adkins Legacy Award
Assistant Treasurer, Global Treasury Operations The Boeing Company
Verett Mims received a Master of Science in physics from MIT before her fi rst post-graduate job as a technical staff member at Hughes Aircraft Company. She then went on to enroll in the Stanford Graduate School of Business to earn her MBA, which would lead her to her second and current career in fi nance. She began her career in 1993 at Citibank in New York, working in foreign exchange sales. She worked as the only African-American female in foreign exchange sales at all three banks in her career. In 2002 she joined Boeing as the director of international fi nance, where she supported business-unit foreign sales and designed various treasury workfl ow tools. Today, Verett serves as Assistant Treasurer, Global Treasury Operations for the Boeing Company, where she oversees a $10 billion cash investment portfolio, a $4B commodity/foreign exchange portfolio, global banking, cash forecasting, share repurchase and has developed an internal model to manage counter-party risk. Throughout her fi nance career, Verett has received a number of awards and recognition, including the Treasury and Risk Alexander Hamilton Award-Tool of the Year for excellence in system automation, Chicago United Business Leaders of Color, Women of Color STEM Award, Delta Sigma Theta Echoes of Excellence Award for Business, Treasury and Risk Alexander Hamilton Award – Tool of the Year, and Treasury Today Adam Smith Award – Best Card Solution in Conjunction with with Enterprise Finance Services.
Mrs. April Sanders Arlington W. Carter Legacy Award
Senior Manager Space and Airborne Systems Raytheon Company
Now Senior Manager, Systems Engineering for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, April Sanders joined the company in 1987. She has taken on positions of increased responsibility in technical and leadership roles, including capture manager, proposal manager, and program manager for several Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration programs and research projects. She has more than 30 years of experience in systems-level integration and software development, verifi cation, validation, and program management. Her accomplishments include crafting win strategies, securing R&D funding, and bringing in new business. She has a patent (pending) for a point-to-point communications link. This is a communications system that has two terminals, each including two antennas, and the communications system uses spatial multiplexing. One antenna of a fi rst terminal transmits a tracking tone, along with a data signal. Two antennas in a second terminal receive the tracking tone. The signals from the two
antennas are processed by a feed circuit, which includes a variable delay circuit and a combiner that forms, at a fi rst diff erence output, a linear combination of a signal from the fi rst antenna and a signal from the second antenna, in which the tracking tone is canceled. The variable delay circuit is actively adjusted to maintain this cancellation.
Mr. Taiwo Alo Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Legacy Award
Manager Baltimore Gas & Electronic - An Exelon Company
Taiwo Alo has over 10 years of professional experience, and joined Baltimore Gas and Electric in 2009 as an electrical engineer. He has made valuable contributions to the company’s success during his eight years at BGE. Taiwo started as an engineer in transmission planning before progressing on to senior electrical engineer before becoming Manager of the Performance Assessment Group. He currently leads a team of professionals in identifying, analyzing, and communicating performance trends to identify best practices and correct or mitigate adverse trends before an incident occurs. One of his most important recognitions is as a champion of diversity and inclusion. He has served as the Chairperson of the Professional Development Committee of an Exelon Employee Resource Group, the Exelon African American Resource Alliance for the past fi ve years. He focuses on facilitating critical conversation and coordinates and hosts leading diversity professionals to bring the topic of race to the forefront through a respectful, engaging dialogue.
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