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Hispanic Engineer & IT Magazine Names '50 Most Important Hispanics' for 2005
By HE & IT
Jul 6, 2005, 13:27

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For Immediate Release
July 1, 2005 
 
Contact: Paulette Pettit-Austrich
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Hispanic Engineer & IT Magazine Names '50 Most Important Hispanics' for 2005

BALTIMORE, MD - The editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine (www.hispanicengineer.com) have released their list of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business for 2005.
 
Honorees are chosen for this annual list because of their outstanding work in the field of technology and their leadership of the institutions that reside there. This list includes many of the nation's highest-achieving Hispanic executives, managers, and researchers in industry, government, and academia. These are women and men who have demonstrated leadership on a broad front, not only in the workplace but in their communities as well. During the year that the list is publicized, its members are presented to young people as role models, and the honorees' accomplishments are upheld as examples of the important, often unrecognized contributions made on a daily basis by the thousands of Hispanics in technology-related jobs.

The 50 Most Important Exemplars will gather this year for a colloquium and awards dinner where increasing minority entrepreneurship, executive development, and educational readiness for the "Digital Economy" will be discussed. The Top 50 Hispanics in Technology Dinner will be held on September 16th, 2005 in Baltimore, MD, as a high point of the Minorities in Research Sciences Conference, the premier career development and employee recognition event for minorities in the areas of research science and technology.

The honorees were featured in the April/May issue of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine, which is distributed to engineering colleges and universities with high Hispanic enrollments; Hispanic - engineering, IT, and science professionals; and high-level government and industry policy makers and executives across the country.

Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine is published by Career Communications Group, Inc. (CCG), a minority-owned talent management and career development company whose mission is to promote career and educational opportunities for minority professionals and students in engineering, technology, and science. CCG also publishes three other magazines - US Black Engineer & Information Technology, Science Spectrum, and Women of Color Conference Magazine - and hosts three national conferences: the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, the National Women of Color Technology Awards, and the Emerald Honors for Research Science. CCG is also the founder of two national public awareness campaigns to increase minorities' interest in technology: La Familia Technology Week and National Black Family Technology Awareness Week.  
 
Hispanic Engineer & IT Magazine's 50 Most Important Hispanics

Technology & Business

Ralph Alvarez 
President
McDonald's, North America 

Herbert A. (Alex) Archila 
President, Chevron Canada Resources
Chevron Texaco Corporation

Ramón  Baez 
Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology 
Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions

Paulino Barros, Jr.  
Chief Product Officer
BellSouth Corporation

Mario Bolaños
Director, Semiconductor Group Packaging Technology Development 
Texas Instruments Incorporated

Jovita Carranza 
Vice President of Air Operations 
UPS

Michael J. (Mike) Cave 
Vice President/General Manager, Airplane Programs 
Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Juan N. Cento 
President 
FedEx Express Latin America & Caribbean Division

Michelle Cervantez 
Vice President, Marketing 
Mercedes-Benz, USA

R. Marcelo Claure 
CEO 
Brightstar Corporation

Robert D. Colangelo 
Vice President, Technology Innovation for Xerox Global Services 
Xerox Corporation

Mario Concha 
President-Chemical 
Georgia-Pacific Corporation

Patricia Romero (Pat) Cronin 
Vice President, Business Transformation, Global Services 
IBM Corporation

Ralph de la Vega 
Chief Operating Officer 
Cingular Wireless

Marcos  S. de Oliveira 
Executive Director, Medium and Large Front Wheel and Rear Wheel Drive Vehicles Ford Motor Company

Philip de St. Aubin 
Vice President and Deputy, International Relations 
The Boeing Company

Gregory Deveson 
CEO of GM Powertrain 
General Motors Corporation

Heriberto Diaz 
Vice President of Operations and General Manager 
Guidant Corporation

Robert Dominguez, Jr. 
President and CEO 
Ambreco, Inc.

Patricia Elizondo 
Senior Vice President, Major Accounts Operations 
Xerox Corporation

Michael Escobar 
Assistant Vice President, Information Technology 
Allstate Insurance Company

Frank Flores 
Vice President, Engineering, Logistics and Technology, Integrated Systems 
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Angel P. Garcia 
Corporate Vice President, International Operations 
Storage Technology Corporation

Yno Gonzalez 
President, SBC Long Distance 
SBC Communications Inc.

Carlos Guimaraes 
President and CEO 
UOP LLC

Si Gutierrez 
Vice President of Central Planning and Production Control 
National Semiconductor Corporation

Christopher M. Hernandez 
Sector Vice President, Unmanned Systems, Integrated Systems 
Northrop Grunman Corporation

Grace D. Lieblein
Vehicle Chief Engineer of FWD Truck Products
General Motors Corporation

Filemón López 
Senior Vice President, South Florida Region 
Comcast Corporation

Len Martinez 
Vice President of Administration and Chief Financial Officer 
Kaiser-Hill Company, L.L.C.

Maria Martinez 
Corporate Vice President, Communications Sector 
Microsoft Corporation

Louis J. Martinez, P.E.  
Vice President, Government Operations
Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.

Jose A. Mejia 
President, Supply Chain Networks 
Lucent Technologies, Inc.

César Mendoza 
Vice President - Information Technology 
The Miami Herald Publishing Company

Michael Montelongo 
Senior Vice President for Strategic Marketing 
Sodexho Inc.

Juan A. Murillo, P.E. 
Senior Vice President, Executive Technical Manager for Major Bridges 
Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.

Nellie Nieto
Vice President, Controller Finance 
Panasonic Systems Sales Company

Jim J. Padilla 
President and Chief Operating Officer; Chairman, Automotive Operations 
Ford Motor Company

Antonio M. Perez 
Chief Executive Officer 
Eastman Kodak Company

Pedro J. Pizarro, Ph.D. 
Vice President, Power Procurement 
Southern California Edison

Stevan G. Ramirez 
Chief Quality Officer & Corporate KOS Business Director, and Vice President 
Eastman Kodak Company

George  Reyes 
Chief Financial Officer 
Google Inc.

José Antonio Riós  
Chief Administrative Officer and President,
Global Crossing International,
Chairman of the Board, Global Crossing UK

Hector Ruiz, Ph.D. 
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Adalio T. Sanchez 
General Manager, pSeries, Server Group 
IBM Corporation

Cipriano (Pano) Santos, Ph.D. 
Senior Scientist 
HP Labs

Ralph G. Tourino 
Vice President, Space Support and Global Strike, DoD Systems 
Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions

Nina G. Vaca 
Founder and CEO 
Pinnacle Technical Resources Inc.

Raul Valdes-Perez, Ph.D.  
President and Chairman 
Vivisimo, Inc.

Oscar Velasco 
Vice President, Zone Service 
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

David Wellisch 
Vice President and General Manager, AOL Latino 
America Online, Inc.

Angiolina (Angie) Wiskocil 
Senior Vice President - Network Services 
SBC Communications, Inc.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation 
IBM Corporation

Government & Academia

Cristina H. Amon, Sc.D. 
Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems 
Carnegie Mellon University

Dan E. Arvizu, Ph.D. 
Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy

Wilbert Berrios 
Director of Corporate Information 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Blandina Cardenás, Ed.D. 
President 
University of Texas - Pan American

Nils J. Diaz, Ph.D. 
Chairman 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Michael L. Dominguez 
Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs 
U.S. Air Force

Francisco A. Figueroa
Vice President, Business Management & Enabling Services and Chief Financial Officer Sandia National Laboratories

Jolen Flores, Ph.D.  
Chief Advanced Aircraft Project Office 
NASA Ames Research Center

Sidney M. Gutiérrez 
Director, Systems Assessment and Research 
Sandia National Laboratories

J. Leonard (Lenny) Martinez 
Vice President of Manufacturing Systems, Science and Technology 
Sandia National Laboratories

John C. Pérez, Ph.D.  
Regents Professor and Director, Natural Toxins Research Center 
Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Armando E. Rodriguez 
Director, Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity 
Defense Intelligence Agency

Richard A. Tapia, Ph.D.
Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics 
Rice University

Special Recognitions: Technology & Business

Magda Batista 
Electrical Computer Engineer 
Federal Aviation Administration

Nicolas J. Gutiérrez, Jr.
Chair 
South Florida Water Management District Governing Board

Michael D. Kaminski, Ph.D. 
Leader, Nanoscale Engineering Group, Chemical Engineering Division 
Argonne National Laboratories

Carmen M. Molina 
Program Manager, BITS II 
Federal Aviation Administration

Angela  A. Prymas, P.E. 
Senior Engineer
South Florida Water Management District