Simone Fojgiel offers a wide variety of services for multimedia projects, especially created for hitting the Hispanic market. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay she is nowadays the most exported voice that her country ever had, and without a doubt, the top Spanish Voice over Female Talent in the US right now. Simone has built a long, rich, successful career over the past two decades, which began while studying Mass & Social Communications at the most prestigious university of her country, Universidad Catolica del Uruguay. After working for 13 years at the #1 FM station, Océano FM, as an On-Air Personality and DJ, Main female Corporate/Commercial Voice Talent, Audio Imaging Director and Creative Copywriter, Simone decided in 2004 to promote her talent on the Internet.
Marlene Quijano is Director R&D for Cereals, Bars, Better For You Platforms and Open Innovation for the Snacks & Cereal Sector at Kraft. She is responsible for Category Leadership across Growth, Quality and Core Programs across North American Cereal, Bars, Back To Nature and South Beach Diet Categories.
Prior to moving into this assignment, Quijano had prior leadership roles in the Snacks & Cereal Sector. Quijano was the Director for Snacks & Cereal Productivity and Pilot Plant Operations, responsible for Raw & Pack productivity across Biscuit, Snacks, & Confections, involving major product and process cost optimization initiatives and Pilot Plant Operations supporting Growth, Quality and Productivity for the sector. She also served as the Director Packaging and Engineering where she oversaw all of the Packaging and Engineering activities for Biscuit, Snacks & Confections businesses.
Quijano also held a leadership role in Human Resources where she was responsible for guiding the Kraft diversity agenda and focusing on effective strategies to meet quantitative and qualitative goals across the Westchester and New Jersey management sites.
Quijano began her career with the company in 1984 as an intern in the Beverage Division at General Foods Corporation. A year later, she joined the company as a technical researcher in Beverages. She has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility including Senior Engineer for Maxwell House and Asset Planning Manager for Maxwell House Logistics. In 1995, she was named Beverages Operations Quality Manager where she focused on leading and implementing food safety and quality assurance initiatives. A year later, she was named Technology Section Manager for the Beverages Division and then in 1998 became Technology Section Manager for Kraft's Coffee & Cereals Division.
In 1999 Marlene was promoted to Associate Director for Beverages, Desserts & Snacks with overall technical business leadership across two categories - Ready-to-drink beverages and new product development for the entire division. She progressed in that capacity to overseeing the overall technical business leadership across Kraft's Dessert businesses.
Marlene Quijano has a bachelor's of science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
Scarlett Alvarez is the Regional Managing Director of Investor & External Relations for AES Latin America. Alvarez joined AES via its relationship with EDC in 2002 as Director of Investor Relations. In 2005 she was promoted to EVP of Investor & External Relations which included social responsibility, public affairs and media relations in addition to Investor Relations. While at EDC, Alvarez worked on numerous international bond offerings. Additionally, she led the listing of EDC on the Latibex stock exchange in Madrid: the first listing of a Venezuelan company. Prior to joining EDC, she worked in the public telecommunication company of Venezuela (a subsidiary of Verizon) to coordinate their debt refinancing. Scarlett Alvarez received her B.A. in Business Administration from Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela and a postgraduate degree in Capital Markets from New York University.
<p>Iberia Tiles was founded in August 1979 by ceramic tile manufacturer Ramon Sugranes, President of Ceramica Sugranes, of Barcelona, Spain and his partner, Jacinto Mas, who quickly transferred the managerial responsibilities to Ramon's daughter, Rosa Sugranes. </p> <p>Ms. Sugranes reached a significant milestone when she was selected by the Small Business Council of America (SBCA) to receive its prestigious Small Business Person of the Year Award, which was presented at the U.S. Capitol. She was recognized for her outstanding efforts and achievements as a representative of the nation's small businesses. </p> <p>Rosa Sugranes holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Barcelona.</p>
Yos Bugallo is a Campus Consultant in EY's Inclusiveness Recruiting team, specializing in the diversity recruiting strategy and development. Yos works with university stakeholders to drive strategic and systemic change regarding diversity and inclusiveness at the student, faculty, and campus level. Her role focuses on increasing the pipeline of top diverse talent into EY and better preparing students for the global workforce. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Yos was an Associate Director at the NYU Stern School of Business MBA Admissions office, where she handled general admissions as well as diversity, LGBT, military and Latin American recruiting. She started her work in higher education in the Brandeis University Undergraduate Admissions office where she instituted a number of innovative programs and revamped their diversity recruiting function. Yos has also served on the Board of the New York chapter of the Association for Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) as the Director of Student Programs. She has also been involved with several organizations including Management Leadership for Tomorrow, the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, and the Posse Foundation. Yos holds a Bachelors Degree in Sociology from Brandeis University.
Remedios Diaz-Oliver is the President of All American Containers, Inc., a leading supplier in the United States of glass, plastic and metal containers and caps throughout the world. She is actively involved in business and charitable organizations. In 1988, she was appointed a member of the Advisory Board-Trade Policy, Negotiations and International Policy for the President of the United States. In addition to her many recognitions, she was the first woman to receive the 'E' award for Excellence in Export from the President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1968. Ms. Diaz-Oliver is a graduate of the University of Habana in Habana, Cuba.