2020 Top 10 Latina Corporate
Executives of the Year
NBy Gloria Romano-Barrera ow in its 12th year, the LATINA Style Corporate Executive of the Year Awards celebrates exemplary
business executives based on leadership, innovation, and company success. Whether they lead the
development of the company’s short or long-term strategy, the top 10 Corporate Latina executives
featured (in no specific order) have set company benchmarks for excellence.
Joining American International
Group (AIG) in 2018, Agnes
Suarez, President & CEO, AIG
Insurance Company - Puerto
Rico, is a seasoned professional
who is a passionate and committed leader focusing in the
developmentand improvement of AIG. During her time at AIG, she
has created positive transformations throughout the organization.
She has delegated, empowered and, at the same time, coached,
encouraged, and recognized the contributions of team members
provoking organizational achievements in the pursuit of
excellence. A role model for women, Suarez implemented an
Excellence Culture focused on Customer Service Excellence
Strategy. Since 2018 AIG has celebrated service of excellence week
on October; this year it was a virtual event where all employees
participated in activities, workshops and skills development
seminars to provide Service of Excellence. This initiative has been
validated with Client Service Surveys excellent results, improving
year after year. During this period, a professional development
program for executives as well as for employees has been
implemented, offering in house and external training in technical,
leadership, management skills, and service quality areas.
A member of the Board of Directors of ACODESE (the PR Insurance
Companies Association), she is an active Board member of the
Community Financial Advisors, Inc (AFC) – a non-profit entity (501
C3) that formed in 2007 as part of the strategies of her
presidency of the PR CPA Society, where she served as Chairman
of the Board 2010-2012, Deputy Secretary 2016-2018, 2019,
belonged to the Audit, Fundraising and PR Pre Check Platform
committee. She is also a member of AIESEC ALUMNI Puerto Rico
– currently vice president and chairman of the
organizing committee of the Ibero American Regional Alumni
Congress 2022 to be held in Puerto Rico.
Aida Sabo joined Parexel as
Vice President of Diversity &
Inclusion in 2014. In this role
she is responsible for the
Global Diversity & Inclusion
Strategy and for finding creative ways to execute this strategy.
The strategy consists on building D/I awareness and launching
a culture change to ensure D/I is part of Paraxel’s DNA. Sabo’s
work extends to global initiatives in India, Germany, UK, Japan,
Argentina and other regions. Additionally, she launched a
Leadership and Inclusion Forums to enable diversity and
inclusion thought-provoking discussions with not only internal
Paraxel leaders but also the local community --- this has been
extended to all the external community in Boston, Berlin,
Hyderabad, Bangalore, Tokyo, and Uxbridge- focusing on the
larger hubs in the company.
A daughter of Mexican immigrants, Sabo along with her
parents moved to the United States when she was three years
old. With a passion for learning, she excelled and earned a B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California
at Davis.
She then completed engineering graduate work at the
University of California at Berkeley and at Georgia Tech. She
also has participated in programs in Executive Education at
Harvard’s JFK School, Harvard Business School, Stanford
University, and UCLA.
Sabo serves on various boards, including the Partnership
Inc., the Howard University College of Pharmacy Board of
Visitors, the Harvard JFK School’s Women’s Leadership Board.
She is a member of Catalyst’s Expert Community and a task
force member of the Center for Talent Innovation (Sylvia Ann
Hewlett’s organization).
Agnes Suarez
President & CEO
American International
Group (AIG)
Aida Sabo
Vice President of
Diversity/Inclusion
Parexel
LSM Vol.26#6