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Two LaTinas on The Move
Andrea Saenz, left,
became the first Latina
President and CEO of the
Chicago Community Trust,
an organization founded
in 1915 and considered
the third largest in the
country with an investment
portfolio of $4.7 billion.
To the right, Lisa Duarte,
a young lawyer whose
rising professional career
has been a key factor in
a name change for the
renowned law firm of Croke
Fairchild Morgan & Beres
LLC, which is now Croke
Fairchild Duarte & Beres
LLC. It's a historic step
that shows the strength
of the Latina woman in all
fields of national life.
Negocios Now brings
exclusive interviews with
these two 'Latinas on the
move.
Pages 7 and 19.
Bloomberg names Adela Cepeda
one of 100 Influential Latinos in US
B
loomberg named inves-
tors Adela Cepeda, foun-
der of Angeles Investors,
among the 100 most influential
Latinos in the United States.
Cepeda heads the list that
includes senior executives such
as Richard Gonzalez, CEO and
President of Abbvie; former
baseball player Alex Rodriguez,
founder A-Rod and Supreme
Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Colombian Adela Cepeda
arrived in New York at the age
of six, studied economics at Har-
vard and after working on Wall
Street, managing public and pri-
vate debt and equity transactions,
she moved to Chicago where she
created AC Advisory Inc., a com-
pany dedicated to the manage-
ment, structuring and execution
of capital markets transactions for
corporations and municipalities.
After selling the company to
PFM, she became managing
director of the latter until 2019.
She serves on the boards of UBS
Funds, Pathway Mutual Funds,
chairs Mercer Mutual Funds; is a
director of BMO Financial Corp.,
and just under two years ago
created Angel Investors to finan-
ce Latino companies.
Bloomberg Media Distribu-
tion is the leading provider of
business and financial news
content to publishers, broad-
casters and other companies in
more than 130 countries.
In 2021 Negocios Now named
Cepeda in its list of 50 Most
Influential Latinos.
Las nominaciones para los
Latinos 40 under 40 Class of 2022
en el área metropolitana de Chicago
están abiertas
Vaya hoy a Latinos40under40.com
y nomine su candidato
Deadline: Enero 20
Para más información, escríbenos a
40under40@negociosnow.com
