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Chief Strategy Officer,
Esperanza Health Centers
Adrian Soto serves as chief
of Adrian Soto serves as chief
of strategy for Esperanza
Health Centers, where he is
responsible for supporting the
organization's mission by iden-
tifying and assisting in the im-
plementation of key strategic
initiatives, creating and recom-
mending major policy deci-
sions, and developing innovati-
ve systems of care, both within
the health center as well as on a
community level.
Soto is passionate about
social determinants of health,
economic development, entre-
preneurship and empowering
Chicago communities. He has
focused on assisting and sup-
porting the growth of diverse
businesses for the past 10 years,
having worked in both the pri-
vate and nonprofit sector for the
past 13 years.
Beyond his day-to-day work,
Soto has served on nonprofit
and advisory boards that dee-
pen his commitment to com-
munity development throug-
hout Chicagoland, including
serving on the executive board
of directors for the Communi-
ty & Economic Development
Association of Cook County,
the Hispanic Employment Plan
Advisory Council for the State
of Illinois, the board of directors
for CEDA Community Develop-
ment Fund and the board of Es-
peranza Health Centers, where
he served as board chairman.
Soto is a Chicago native who-
se parents immigrated to the
United States from Durango,
Mexico. He holds a Bachelor of
Science in Marketing and Mana-
gement with a concentration in
Entrepreneurship from Southern
Illinois University, has completed
a post-baccalaureate executive
education program at University
of Chicago's Booth School of Bu-
siness in Chamber Leadership
and is a graduate of the Goldman
Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
Entrepreneurship Program.
Adrian Soto, 34
Committed
to health
and economic
development
"I
t is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could
have done them better. The credit
belongs."
