Ophelia Basgal
Ophelia Basgal is Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) Vice President of Civic Partnership and Community Initiatives, a position she has held September 2005. She is directly responsible for managing the company’s $18.7 million charitable contributions program, which includes the award winning Solar Schools Education Program. She also oversees the employee volunteerism program for PG&E‘s 20,000 employees and community engagement programs and partnerships with community based organizations. Prior to joining PG&E, Ophelia served for 27 years as executive director of the Alameda County Housing Authority.

Richard Chacon
Richard Chacon is the Vice President and Manager for Union Bank of California’s Supplier Diversity Office and is responsible for providing diverse business enterprises with the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the Bank’s procurement of goods and services in California, Oregon and Washington. Over the past ten years, he has been responsible for the increase in Union Bank diverse business enterprise spend from $13.4 million in 1996 to $86.8 million in 2007.  Richard has received numerous awards for his commitment to diversity and diverse businesses throughout the nation.

Patt Cronin
Patt’s currently drives the transformation of IBM service delivery globally.  Patt previously was the General Manager IBM Global account where she managed a budget of 3.4 billion dollars for applications, leading edge technologies and processes. Her extra curricular involvement includes membership with the Pan American Roundtable (increasing Latinos that attend Universities), National Charity League (community group working across 26 philanthropies), Junior Achievement (board member - focused on educating young people to value free enterprise and to be workforce ready), HENAAC Advisory board member, SHPE Region 1 IBM executive sponsor and as a mentor.

Ximena Delgado
Ximena Delgado, a Senior V.P. for Bank of America’s Global Community Impact, is responsible for the bank’s community reinvestment activities in the Bay Area.  Ms. Delgado has held positions with the California Reinvestment Committee and was a Legislative Aide to then-Santa Clara County Supervisor Ron Gonzalez.  She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, the Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and a Woodrow Wilson National Fellow.  She is a member of LISC’s Advisory Committee and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.

Maria E. Gallo
Maria E. Gallo is a senior vice president, Community Development, focused on building partnerships between the Bank and communities by offering fair and equal access to capital, credit and financial services to the communities served by the Union Bank.   Additionally, Gallo works to manage initiatives and community programs that deliver the bank’s products and services to ethnic communities throughout Union Bank’s customer base, including African-American, Hispanic and Asian communities. She’s a board member of the Latino Community Foundation, Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute and California Economic Development Lending Initiative.  

Rose Guilbault
Rose Guilbault is AAA’s Vice President of Corporate Affairs and publisher of VIA. She is past Chair of the Commonwealth Club, was appointed to a Presidential Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and the California Community Colleges Board. She also serves on the Board of SamTrans and the University of San Francisco. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir “Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America.” Among many honors, Guilbault received the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award and was named a "Woman Who Could Be President" by the League of Women Voters. 

Ralph Martinez
Ralph Martinez serves as Comcast’s Area Vice President for its’ California South Bay Region.  Martinez is responsible for a team of more than 800 employees and an extensive territory, stretching north from Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) south to Monterey County.  Encompassing 1.7 million residents, it is the largest territory within the Bay Area. Prior to joining Comcast Martinez served as the Regional Vice President of the Western Region for Frontier Communications and was responsible for an eight-state region encompassing sales, call center operations, engineering and operations of communications services.

Marcela Perez de Alonso
Marcela Perez de Alonso has worldwide responsibility for HP's HR initiatives, including workforce development and organization effectiveness, benefits and compensation, staffing, global inclusion and diversity, HR processes and information management. Since joining HP has spearheaded a pivotal transformation to build a best-in-class HR organization. One of only 10 women to be included in the ninth annual Hispanic Business Corporate Elite directory, Perez de Alonso was named one of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine. She also was honored as the 2005 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic-Net.

Enrique T. Salem
Enrique T. Salem serves as chief operating officer, with responsibility for global product development, sales, marketing and IT. Most recently, Salem served as group president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, and managed global sales and partner programs, marketing, communications and branding. Before joining Symantec, Salem was president and CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software that was successfully acquired by Symantec in 2004. Salem received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Dartmouth College. He was named 2007 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic Net as well as 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young.