 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(October 2022) |
Beatriz Acevedo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Website | www |
Beatriz Acevedo is an American entrepreneur. [1] [2] She was a former radio and TV personality with three Emmy Awards, one MTV Music Award, and a Media Correspondent Award. [3]
Beatriz started her career in media at the age of eight, first on radio and later on television. Her work earned her three Emmys, one MTV Music Award, and a Media Correspondent Award among others. [4] She later became a tech media entrepreneur as the Co-Founder and President of mitú, a digital media brand for young Latinos in the U.S. [5] [6]
She recently co-founded and co-chairs LA Collab, a Hollywood initiative aimed at doubling Latino representation in Hollywood, both in front and behind the camera by 2030. [7]
Beatriz is also the founder and CEO of SUMA Wealth, a financial technology company devoted to increasing prosperity, opportunity, and financial inclusion for young U.S.-born Latinos. [8] [9] She is a regular speaker at entrepreneurial conferences and events. [10] She is a board member of 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Committee, Beneficial State Bank, Latino Community Foundation and other professional bodies. [11]
Beatriz is currently the President of her family's foundation, Acevedo Foundation, which focuses on creating equitable access to capital, closing the educational gap, and promoting economic mobility and inclusion for the Latino community. [12] [ non-primary source needed ]
Beatriz resides in Santa Monica, California with her husband and twin teenagers. [13]
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. Since 2016, O'Brien has been the host for Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a nationally syndicated weekly talk show produced by Hearst Television. She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013. She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa Ojeda is a Mexican-American journalist. She is the anchor and executive producer of Latino USA on National Public Radio, a public radio show devoted to Latino issues. She is also the founder, president and CEO of Futuro Media Group, which produces the show. In 2022, Hinojosa won a Pulitzer Prize.
Pat Mitchell was the first woman president and CEO of PBS and is a media executive. She is editorial director of TEDWomen.
Herb Scannell is an American media executive and businessman. He served as the president of Nickelodeon and TV Land from 1996 to 2006, was the founding CEO of Next New Networks, and the president of BBC Worldwide America. He served as the CEO of the Mitú Network until the Summer 2018. He became the president and chief executive officer of KPCC-FM in January 2019.
Nicole Lapin is an American television news anchor, author and businesswoman. She is known for being an American news anchor on CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg. Lapin also served as a finance correspondent for Morning Joe on MSNBC and The Today Show on NBC. She is The New York Times bestselling author of Rich Bitch, Boss Bitch and Becoming Super Woman. In September 2019 her book Becoming Super Woman, a 12-step plan to go from burnout to balance was released. In February 2022, her fourth book Miss Independent was released, debuting on The Wall Street Journal bestseller's list in the category "Hardcover Business".
Lilia Luciano is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster and public speaker. She is currently a national correspondent at CBS News based in New York and host of the iHeart Radio podcast, El Flow. Before moving to Los Angeles, she worked as the investigative reporter at ABC 10 in Sacramento and was the chief investigative correspondent on Discovery Channel's Border Live.
Michele Ruiz, is an entrepreneur, award-winning broadcast journalist, author, public speaker and former Los Angeles news anchor for KNBC-TV. She is co-founder and CEO of BiasSync, a SaaS technology company that helps organizations identify and eliminate biases in the workplace. She is also President and CEO of Ruiz Strategies, a communications firm that develops and executes content marketing strategies for businesses, government entities and executives. She is also the founder and former President/CEO of SaberHacer.com, a bilingual educational broadband website for US Hispanics. She maintains a self-titled blog on the site MicheleRuiz.com.
Chetna Gala Sinha is an Indian social entrepreneur working to empower women in areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills, access to land and means of production.
Emily Hsiu-Ching Chang is an American journalist, executive producer, and author. Chang was the anchor and executive producer of Bloomberg Technology, a daily TV show focused on global technology, and Studio 1.0, where she regularly speaks to top executives, investors, and entrepreneurs. Chang is the author of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley, which alleges sexism and gender inequality in the tech industry.
Abigail Edna Disney is an American documentary film producer, philanthropist, and social activist. She produced the 2008 documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Disney and Kathleen Hughes are producers and directors of Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Emmy Award winning The Armor of Light (2015) and The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.
Enrique Acevedo is currently a correspondent for CBS News where he reports across multiple broadcasts and platforms. At CBS he has covered a wide range of topics including the 2020 Presidential Election, the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the violence against journalists in Mexico. He was an Emmy award-winning correspondent on the 60 Minutes program 60 MINUTES Plus. He is the first Latino correspondent in the 54-year history of 60 Minutes..
Emilio Romano is a businessman and attorney. He is Managing Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Mexico. He joins the financial firm from Telemundo, where he served as President since 2011. Prior to this, Romano was president and CEO of Grupo Puerta Alameda, a real estate development and investment company, as well as CEO of Grupo Mexicana de Aviación. He also served in several roles in the Mexican Ministry of Finance, including General Director of Tax Policy and Federal Fiscal Attorney.
Beatriz Helena Ramos is an artist, entrepreneur, film director, producer and illustrator. She is the founder of Dancing Diablo Studio in New York and the inventor of Dada.nyc, a visual conversation platform where people speak to each other through drawings.
Sylvia Acevedo is an American engineer and businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 2016 to 2020. A systems engineer by education, she began her career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she was on the Voyager 2 team. She has held executive roles at Apple, Dell, and Autodesk. In 2018, Acevedo was included in a Forbes list of "America's Top 50 Women In Tech". She was a founder, with 3 others of REBA Technology, an infiniband company that was sold and also the Founder and CEO of CommuniCard. As CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, Acevedo led the organization's largest release of badges, over 100 badges in STEM and Outdoors over three years.
Scripbox is a Bengaluru-based digital wealth management service founded in 2012.
Anne Elizabeth Boden is a Welsh tech entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Starling Bank, a UK mobile-only bank. In 2018, she received an MBE for services to financial technology.
Vinodka "Vin" Murria is a British businesswoman and founder of Advanced Computer Software where she was CEO until it was acquired in 2015. Prior to that she was founder and CEO of Computer Software Group Plc, acquired by Hellman&Friedman in 2007. She works as an investor/advisor to HgCapital.
mitú is an English-language Latino media company, multichannel network (MCN) and digital content publisher. In 2016, the network became the largest Hispanic focused digital channel in the world with 2 billion views per month.
Nang Kham Noung, preferred as Marlene, is a Burmese businesswoman and philanthropist. She is a Deputy CEO of the country's largest financial institution Kanbawza Bank, and the executive director of the Kanbawza Group, a major business conglomerate founded by her father, Aung Ko Win. Nang is the chair of I-KBZ Insurance, and the co-founder of the Brighter Future Myanmar Foundation, one of the biggest contributors to social and community development in Myanmar which supports heath, education, poverty reduction and youth empowerment. In 2020, she won the ASEAN Entrepreneur Award in empowering women category for her outstanding contribution to deepening financial inclusion and equality in Myanmar.
Divya Gokulnath is an Indian entrepreneur and educator who is the co-founder and director of Byju's, an educational technology company.