Negocios Now

www.negociosnow.com 20 Abril 2022 Age: 32 Title: Director, Private Equity and M&A Company: ADP Christiaan Rodriguez leads strategic alliances nationally for ADP's mid - dle market private equity practice. His team ser- vices deals, consults, and provides insight to private equity firms and portfo- lio companies. He builds partnerships with consul- tants and service provid- ers and also serves as the vice president of Adelante, ADP's Hispanic/Latinx business resource group in Chicago. From a young age, Rodriguez's father Jose Maria, who was born in Chicago, instilled the im - portance of honesty, in- tegrity, hard work, faith, and sacrifice. His mother, Eugenia, who was born in Ecuador and moved to Chicago at a young age, taught him how im - portant it is to believe in yourself and have a posi- tive outlook. He graduated with two bachelor's degrees, one in finance and the other in accountancy, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He started his career at De - loitte, where he was a con- sultant helping companies solve business issues. He is a CPA and also holds a real estate broker's license. He worked as manager in Ernst & Young's strategy and transactions practice in Chicago and was a fi - nance associate and com- mercial broker at Cresa, a commercial real estate ad- visory firm. Rodriguez has served as a board director for the Association of Latino Professional for America Chicago since 2020. He led the events committee in 2021 and is co-leading the strategic partnerships committee in 2022. He is also a member of the As - sociation for Corporate Growth Chicago. Through this work he hopes to make financial industry careers more accessible to young Latinos. Away from work he loves to spend time with family, travel, and explore new restaurants. He and his wife have a passion for real estate – exploring it, researching it, watching shows on HGTV, and in - vesting. Age: 23 Title: Chief Marketing Officer Name of Organization: El Encanto Products Inc. Jonatan Rodriguez works as chief marketing officer for the family busi - ness, El Encanto Products, a wholesale food distribu- tion company catering to the Hispanic community. Born in Mexico, Rodri- guez immigrated to the United States with his fa- mily at age 3. Growing up in Chicago, he was raised with the traditional va- lues and beliefs of a Mexi- can household. By age 10 he was already involved in his family's business. While his duties initially consisted of simple tasks like moving boxes or recei - ving payments, he steadily branched out to other po- sitions. He graduated from St. Joseph Catholic High School and pursued hig- her education at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Chi- cago. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in May 2021. Throughout his educa- tion, he balanced classes with business. A normal day consisted of classes in the morning and work in the afternoon. As he con- tinued to learn about the family business, he mo- ved from order picker to accounts receivable, and eventually to general ma- nager. By drawing on the ex- perience from work and classes at school, he was able to create and launch a product of his own: En- canto Juice, an all-natural fruit juice drink. Since its inception, Encanto has achieved an increasing amount of success among Hispanic retailers across the Midwest. Rodriguez credits his success to the support and guidance he's received from his family and friends. Outside of work, he involves himself in the Catholic Church. He has organized numerous food donations for churches in Chicagoland. He is a key contributor to the summer carnivals near his home, and his donations have included trucks, supplies, and food. Age: 30 Title: Director, Organizing Name of Organization: Teach for America Greater Chicago Northwest Indiana Jasmin Rosales is the Di - rector, Organizing for Teach for America- Greater Chica- go Northwest Indiana, whe- re she is piloting a fellows- hip for TFA alum of color who want to become better advocates in their commu- nities and schools. This is an opportunity for Rosales to bring her knowledge of po- licy writing, her experience as an organizer and her ex- pertise as a school leader into a space designed for people of color and share her wealth of knowledge in a way that will create ripples of change in the future. This fellowship will create more access for people of color who have been traditionally excluded from influencing systems and policies and give them the theoretical and practical skills to be change agents. Rosales is a first-gene - ration college graduate of Mexican roots from the Little Village neighbor- hood of Chicago. She at- tended Syracuse Univer- sity where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology, and she graduated with distinc- tion when she finished a master's degree in Public Administration at DePaul University. She worked for the Chi- cago City Council where she supported legislation that focused specifically on housing, equal pay, and immigration. In 2018, she joined Noble Schools as a Bilingual Community Or - ganizer. In 2020, she joined UIC College Prep, a Noble School, as Dean of Ope- rations and Public Affairs where she continued her advocacy work ?and sup- ported the reopening of the school after it had been shut down for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rosales helped create a safe reopening plan for the 2021-2022 school year while vaccines were not entirely rolled out. In July of 2021, she re - ceived an award from No- ble Schools for superb ser- vice and dedication to their core values. Only 18 out of over 1,000 staff members received this prestigious award In 2018, she joined the club council for the True Va - lue Boy's and Girl's Club in Little Village where she sup- ports the club's fundraising strategy. Rosales grew up at- tending this club and finds a lot of joy in supporting them. Christiaan Rodriguez Jonatan Rodriguez Jasmin Rosales Diversity Diversity in equity in equity Food provider Community Organizer

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