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1 week ago | 
americanhealthcareleader.com | Billy Yost
Michelle Figueroa’s humility has almost been her undoing at times. She remembers a supervisor telling her that despite her work ethic and financial acumen, she wasn’t leadership material. “She told me that I was too shy, and that people needed to connect with me personally if I ever wanted to lead,” Figueroa remembers. “It was so hard to hear, but it’s something I worked on for years.
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2 weeks ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
Alan Maran arrived at Chewy in 2019, before Chewy deliveries became as common to see on doorsteps as Amazon packages. Six months later, he helped the company go public, a milestone that ended with Chewy being valued in the multibillions of dollars. The chief audit executive has spent the past six years articulating and leading the internal audit strategy for the name in pet-related retail and home delivery.
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3 weeks ago | 
americanhealthcareleader.com | Billy Yost
Holly Smith started her career in a retail pharmacy, which she’s grateful for today as ambulatory care pharmacy director at UToledo Health. Early on, Smith was promoted quickly, requiring her to focus on matters far outside her own performance to achieve results. “That experience helped pave the foundation for developing a deep understanding of the operational side of an outpatient pharmacy service,” Smith says.
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3 weeks ago | 
americanhealthcareleader.com | Billy Yost
Recently, a colleague asked Adam Mayer if he was nervous about turning forty. The current associate system chief financial officer at the Medical University of South Carolina Health System (MUSC Health) and chief financial officer for its community physician practice was indeed approaching a milestone birthday, but he was only turning thirty. Mayer is used to people assuming he’s older than he is.
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3 weeks ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
Gabriel Beltran has been advocating for minority- and women-owned businesses in the transportation sector since 1999. The assistant vice president of vendor management at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) recently received a nomination for the Executive of the Year Pillar Award from the Regional Hispanic Contractors Association.
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1 month ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
Chase started making headlines after officially launching Chase Travel Group last year, a leisure and corporate travel provider backed by the sheer size of its parent organization, JPMorganChase. But in addition to its financial muscle, the company sought out talent in the travel space, like Antonio “Tony” Gutierrez, general counsel for Chase Travel Group, to help the company find its legs.
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1 month ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
In November 2024, Alma Rosa Montañez accepted general counsel responsibilities for S&P Global’s Market Intelligence business and a month later for the company’s enterprise data organization. The two-pronged promotion was the culmination of Montañez restarting her career as a securities lawyer in the mid-2010s, a leap of faith for an attorney who had already had her own professional trials during the Great Recession.
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1 month ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
When Sergio Quiñones laces up his Air Jordan 1s in the morning, he’s already a step ahead. The associate general counsel for legal innovation at Nike ties up his right shoe and then moves to his left, a prosthetic leg created to replace the foot he had amputated when he was just eleven months old. “I’ve been learning to adapt before I even remember it,” Quiñones explains. “My mother, this incredible person in my life, always called me her ‘campeon,’ her champion.
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1 month ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
Lina Parra Cartagena commuted 3,649 miles every few weeks while earning her MBA at MIT. For two years, the current associate director of finance at Vertex Pharmaceuticals flew from Barcelona to Boston in pursuit of her second master’s and continuation of a career in global finance. She’s lived in five countries; trained multiple, high-performing FP&A teams; and spent free time as a finance expert examining the implications of AI for a UC San Diego-affiliated research group.
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1 month ago | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost
Andres Angelani has led and grown digital services operations at what he calls “every T-shirt size of company,” in a career that has spanned Argentina, the UK, and both coasts of the US. The current CEO at Wizeline helped Globant expand from a fledgling Argentina-based organization into a global IT powerhouse over twelve years. For another seven years, he led what is now Softvision through its acquisition by Cognizant, a large Fortune 500 professional services company.
