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Washington, DC--(HISPANIC PR WIRE - PR Newswire)--February 4, 2008--LATINA Style Magazine proudly celebrates the 10th Year Anniversary of the LATINA Style 50 Awards and Diversity Conference which will feature Senior Executives from the LATINA Style 50 companies in three instructive workshops.
The first panel titled “Nurturing Excellence: Developing Latina Executive Talent “ focuses on the strong mentoring relationships, positive environments and options for career advancement which are identified as one of the key components of an employee’s successful development in the workplace. Joined by moderator Marie Quintana, VP, Multicultural Sales, PepsiCo are Elizabeth Custodio, FVP Regional Mortgage Community Development, HSBC; Patricia Perez-Ayala, VP & GM, N.A. Feminine Care, Brand Franchise Mgr, P&G; Mariana Brugger, Human Resources VP, Northeast Division of Wal-Mart & Raquel Valerios, Director in the Financial Accounting Group, Credit Suisse.
The second panel titled “The LATINA Style 50 Companies: A 10 Year Retrospective” will center on the changes corporations have made in their diversity programs in particular increasing the number of senior executives in their ranks since the LATINA Style 50 program was launched in 1998. Joined by moderator Patt Romero Cronin, IBM General Manager Integrated Technology Delivery, IBM are Elizabeth Nieto, Global Talent and Diversity Director, Citi; Annette Martinez, Operations Executive Assistant, State Farm & Maria J. Trafton, SVP, Wealth Management, Private Banking Director, Wachovia
Anna M. Owens, Demographic Statistician in the Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch for the U.S. Census Bureau will present statistics from educational attainment to socioeconomic status on the Hispanic Population since Census 2000.
The last session of the day “ Sr. Executive Round Table: Diversity as a Business Imperative” will cover how Globalization and changing demographics have made it mandatory for corporations to develop a workforce that fully understands the idiosyncrasies of the diverse cultures their companies are working in. Companies that have prepared for this eventuality are experiencing a distinctive competitive advantage. Moderated by Ron Parker, Senior Vice President, Chief Global Diversity & Inclusion Officer, PepsiCo, he will be joined by Patricia Perez-Ayala, VP & GM, N.A. Feminine Care, Brand Franchise Mgr, P&G; Wilka Toppins, OVP, Diversity, Strategic Partnerships, Macy’s; Carlos Migoya, Regional President, Metro Charlotte, Wachovia & Edgar Morales, VP, Diversity, Prudential.
The LATINA Style 50 Report is the most respected evaluation of corporate America’s career development opportunities for Latinas, and sets the standard for corporate America’s sensitivity to the needs and goals of professional Hispanic women in the workplace.
The number of Hispanic working women in the U.S. workforce exceeds seven and a half million and the numbers continue to rise. LATINA Style 50 companies employ 4,627,936 employees, of those 306,273 are Latinas, representing 6.6% of the total workforce of the selected companies.
The awards ceremony honoring the10th Year Anniversary and LATINA Style 50 Companies will take place on February 7, 2008 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, 999 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20001. For more information regarding the LATINA Style 50, please visit the magazine website at http://latina50.latinastyle.com/.
THE LATINA Style 50 - 2007
Top 50 Companies
Aetna Inc.
Aflac Incorporated
Alcatel-Lucent
Allstate Insurance Company
American Airlines
American Express Company
AT&T
Bank of America
BNSF Railways Company
Citigroup Inc.
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Comcast Corporation
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
Credit Suisse
Chrysler Corporation
Darden Restaurants
Fannie Mae
General Mills, Inc.
General Motors Corporation
HSBC-North America
IBM
JPMorgan Chase
Kellogg Company
Kraft Foods, Inc.
Liz Claiborne Inc.
Macy’s Inc
Marriott International, Inc.
MasterCard Worldwide
McDonald’s Corporation
Merrill Lynch
MGM Mirage
Morgan Stanley
New York Life Insurance Company
Northern Trust
PepsiCo, Inc. - Company of the Year 2007
Principal Financial Group
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Qwest Communications Intl., Inc.
SODEXHO, INC.
Southern California Edison
State Farm Mutual Insurance Companies
The Coca-Cola Company
Union Pacific Railroad Company
USAA
Verizon Communications, Inc.
Wachovia
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Wells Fargo & Company
Xerox Corporation
Honorable Mention Companies
Bausch & Lomb
Freddie Mac
Sprint Nextel Corporation
UnitedHealthcare, Inc.
United Technologies Corporation
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Robert E. Bard
(703) 312-0904 Phone
robert@latinastyle.com |
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