Esperanza is a financial planning and analysis manager for Abbott. Her responsibilities are Entity Financial Planning and Reporting. In her tenure at Abbott, she has served in many capacities in the areas of finance, supply chain, and Import /Export compliance.

She currently serves as Chicagoland Networks liaison for Abbott’s Hispanic/Latino Employee Network La Voice. She is also actively involved in Abbott’s campus recruiting efforts.

Ed is a senior auditor in the Internal Audit area for Illinois Tool Works (ITW). He performs both operational and financial audits for a number of the various ITW business units. Prior to ITW, he worked at Deloitte LLP in the Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice for three years.

Judy is a senior external auditor in the Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice of Deloitte LLP. She previously worked at Abbott Laboratories where she completed the two-year Financial Professional Development Program (FPDP).

In addition to her involvement with ALPFA, Judy is also a member of Deloitte’s Hispanic Network (HNET), American Institute of Certified Public Accounts, Illinois CPA Society and serves as advisor for the Midwest Association of Hispanic Accountants student organization at DePaul University.

Rich is a vice president at JP Morgan CHASE & Co, Chicago. He is responsible for providing clients with a broad range of investment management, insurance and estate planning services. Prior to joining CHASE, Rich worked at Charles Schwab where he was a Financial Consultant.

He is a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Roberto currently works for Sara Lee Corporation in the Diversity and Inclusion team. Prior to Sara Lee, he worked for the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) as an account manager and as a talent acquisition consultant and a senior staffing supervisor at Kelly Services.

He also served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Hispanic MBA’s (NSHMBA) as VP of Membership.

Pedro is a senior internal auditor for RR Donnelley & Sons. Prior to working at RR Donnelley, he worked in audit capacities at Hospira, Inc, in the Internal audit group and performed audits of various Hospira locations and business units within the Healthcare sector for Hospira.

For the last three years, Pedro has been a tax site facilitator for Ladder Up and volunteers at The Center for Economic Progress.

Susan currently works for U.S. Cellular as a media relations specialist and previously as a public affairs specialist. Previous roles include working for the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) as an Account Coordinator.

In addition to her volunteer work with ALPFA, she is on the board for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Latina/o Alumni Association.

Ben currently attends the University of Illinois pursuing a Masters in Taxation. Prior to that, he worked for Deloitte Tax LLP in their international tax group.

He has been involved with ALPFA for more than 5 years. As a student at UIC, Ben served on the University’s student chapter [board] as the corporate relations chair. In 2007 he was part of the ALPFA Leadership Summit committee.

Melissa currently works for Crowe Horwath LLP in the Resource Management team and has worked for Crowe Horwath for more than 11 years.

She has been a Co-Lead for Crowe Horwath’s Go Crowe team for Light the Night for the past two years and sits sit on the Charity Committee for Crowe. Melissa is also involved with VITA and Ladder Up and gives back to her local VFW during Thanksgiving to prepare Thanksgiving Meals. Melissa has been involved with ALPFA since 2007 and co-lead Women of ALPFA in 2009.