NMSDC Recognizes 2024 Equity Honors Recipients
May 16 2024 - 9:00AM
Last night, the National Minority Supplier Development Council
(NMSDC) announced this year’s Equity Honors recipients during a
reception and dinner at beautiful Fremont Studios as part of the
organization’s 2024 Minority Business Economic Forum. Amidst the
increasing legal and economic pressures facing minority-owned
businesses, The Equity Honors recognizes the chief corporate
officers leading the way to greater economic equity and minority
business integration. The awards acknowledge that building a more
equitable economy requires a renewed focus on business diversity at
all levels of corporate America.
The 2024 winners are:
Chief Executive Officer of the YearCalvin Butler,
Exelon
Chief Diversity Officer of the YearCeleste Warren, Merck
& Co.
Chief Financial Officer of the YearRobert Verostek,
Denny’s
Chief Information Officer of the YearJay Cavalcanto,
Constellation Sanjay Sood, CDW
Chief Marketing Officer of the YearTariq Hassan,
McDonald's
Chief Operations Officer of the YearDerek Ferguson,
TIAA
Chief Procurement Officer of the YearSusanna Webber,
Merck & Co.
“Despite an uncertain economic climate resulting from the global
COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and continued legal and political
uncertainty, minority-owned businesses have seen unprecedented
economic growth over the past few years,” said NMSDC CEO and
President Ying McGuire. “Resolute visionaries like these have
helped spur this growth and are leading the charge as we march
towards our shared vision of $1 trillion in annual revenue for
NMSDC-certified MBEs” she added.
Nominations were made by NMSDC corporate members and certified
minority business enterprises (MBEs) with winners determined by a
panel of supplier diversity practitioners. For more information
about the NMSDC Equity Honors including everyone who was nominated
this year, please visit
https://www.nmsdcconference.org/2024/the-forum/the-equity-honors.
About NMSDC Founded in 1972, NMSDC is the
longest-operating business growth engine for the broadest group of
systematically excluded communities of color (Asian-Indian,
Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic, and Native American), and our
impact goes far beyond the supply chain. It’s about upward mobility
for the emerging majority of Americans, an equal shot at
participating in the American experiment of free-market capitalism
and entrepreneurship. Our work is about correcting the unequal
access to wealth-building opportunities. For more information,
please visit nmsdc.org.
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Jered Weber
National Minority Supplier Development Council
701.388.7283
jered.weber@nmsdc.org