People in the News

Here's a quick rundown of people and activities:

• January event speaker Mike Aguillera was recently interviewed by motivational speaker Daniel Gutierrez on VoiceAmericaBusiness.  Listen to the podcast.
• Hispanic marketer and entrepreneur extraordinaire Mitch Posada is launching a new Latino-eco/green site, www.QueVerde.com.  Expect to see it in all the popular search engine next week.
• Hispanic-Net cofounder Roberto Medrano is pleased to announce the acquisition of Encentuate by IBM.  Medrano sits on the Encentuate advisory board.  Encentuate is a leading provider of identity and access management software focused on enterprise single sign-on and integration of strong authentication technology
• Alvaro Fernandez, CEO of SharpBrains, is quoted in the May 3, 2008 New York Times' story, "Exercise Your Brain or You'll..Uh..."

Frank Carbajal's new book, Building the Latino Future: Success Stories for the Next Generation profiles the following Hispanic-Net individuals:

• Dr. Jerry Porras, past HN Advisory board member
• Dr. Richard Leza, founder HN
• Miriam Rivera, 2006 Corporate Executive of the Year, HN Advisory board member. Stanford Board of Trustees
• Margarita Quihuis, HN President 2007-08
• Alicia Morga, 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year

• Roberto Medrano, HN Co-founder and past board member

Buy the book at Amazon