Thursday, June 28, 2012  |  5:30 – 9:00 PM

Location:

Tufts Health Plan
705 Mount Auburn Street
Watertown, MA

The health care environment is evolving more rapidly than ever before, driven by regulatory changes and “market-based” innovations. This change is bringing about new opportunities and collaborations across health care constituents – our diverse panel of experts will impart their perspectives and innovative visions of a new healthcare landscape. Join the discussion with key stakeholders including: providers, insurers, consumer advocacy groups, healthcare law experts and policy makers.

Keynote Speaker

James Roosevelt, Jr., CEO
Tufts Health Plan

Panelists

Hosted by:

ALPFA Healthcare Partners:

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In 1972, a Latino college student might have felt lonely on campus. Not only was Latino college enrollment abysmal, but few campus organizations existed to help develop and connect them to professional opportunities. The same could be said for young Latino business professionals; many were dismayed by a lack of community of Latino colleagues and mentors to learn from, network with — and who could, together — work to open the doors to corporate America if not the global market.

The ALPFA founding members understood the need to build a Latino professional workforce that would contribute and compete in the region’s burgeoning economy. Today, as ALPFA celebrates its 40th anniversary with more than 18,000 members across 39 professional and 90 student chapters, ALPFA is the pre-eminent resource and authority of building Latino business leaders through its innovative programs and bold changes over the course of its existence…

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ALPFA Boston Chapter President Rene Jarquin and Executive Vice Presidents Betty Francisco and Juan Lopera are profiled in the latest issue of Impact, ALPFA’s national newsletter. Read about their ALPFA stories on pages 20 and 29, respectively.

Read the latest issue of IMPACT online!

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Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 6:00am EST

When Rene Jarquin arrived in Boston nine years ago, he was starting a new career, and a new family, in a city where he’d never lived.

Leaving a role in a financial services software firm Silicon Valley and moving into wealth management, Jarquin got his footing with the help of the Boston Chapter of ALPFA, the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting.

The association helped lead him to his current role at BNY Mellon, where he is a senior portfolio manager working with high net-worth individuals and their financial advisers. Before long, Jarquin started his first stint as president of the chapter. He later stepped back when his second daughter arrived but is now serving his second stint atop the 2,000-member chapter over the summer.

“Our past president had some family issues that required him to step down and when the opportunity was presented, I realized I was in a different enough place now that I could take it on again,” said Jarquin, adding that BNY Mellon has been a staunch supporter of his chapter work.

With a recently created sub-chapter focusing on the legal industry, ALPFA Boston has additional growth in its sights, with an emphasis on other verticals and on the universities that will provide the next wave of talent for the industry.

“Right now, as a chapter we have 500 university members and New York has 1,500,” Jarquin said. Only five area schools currently have ALPFA affiliations on campus. “Our goal is to match New York’s numbers. We want to continue to build that network out.”

What are your top three goals for the year?

At ALPFA, it’s to develop a much deeper pool of talent for our board. We have aggressive goals including moving into new verticals, but we need the talent. Recruiting will be a big focus for me. At BNY Mellon, I want to be able to contribute to the educate of clients and advisers on seminal changes taking place in the marketplace. I love the interplay of macro economics and financial markets and I love to share perspectives, so this is a perfect role for me. On the personal front, I have two daughters [7 and 4] and my goal for 2012 is to teach then the basic principle of financial economics: Deferred gratification.

What are your guiding principles for good management?

That management by committee doesn’t work. That you have to recruit top talent and the third thing, especially when you have a mission-driven organization with a double bottom line, you can’t just approach things through the MBA lens or framework. What I tell the people I mentor is that you have got to summon your inner politician and connect with each of your constituents and find out what motivate them and find a way to use that motivation.

What is the best business decision you’ve made?

Leaving Merrill Lynch to come to BNY Mellon. I have thrived here with their fiduciary business model for wealth management. And at the same time, BNY Mellon has become hugely supportive of ALPFA.

What is the most influential book you’ve read?

That’s an easy one. “Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” by Robert Caro. it chronicles his ability to understand what motivated each and every one of his peers and colleagues in the Senate and to be able to drive through his legislative agenda. He was the greatest reader of men and I admire that quality greatly.

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Radhames Nova, ALPFA Boston Executive Director, was interviewed last week on “Centro” – a news program on local CBS affiliate WBZ. Radhmes spoke on ALPFA as well as the Boston chapter’s upcoming Executive Leadership Summit being held Thursday, November 17 at the Westin Copley Hotel in Boston.

Watch the interview here

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Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 6:00am EDT – Last Modified: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 12:50pm EDT

Nadia Tejeda Colon remembers the moment she knew she wanted to work in accounting and finance. It was in the eighth grade and on career day, a female CPA came in to talk to her classroom.

“She explained what she did and how she focused on people and numbers and I thought, ‘That’s interesting, I could enjoy doing something like that,’” she recalled. Before long, she was taking deliberate steps toward that career, which most recently led her to accept a role at State Street Corp. State Street Corp.Latest from The Business JournalsFollow this company                     as a senior corporate auditor focusing on supporting global market clients.

She builds on experience gained at Liberty Mutual and PricewaterhouseCoopers — and as a full-time bookkeeper during her college days — Colon is excited to tackle her latest challenge. And as a mentor to younger professionals now, Colon advises others to get busy crafting their own careers as soon as possible.

“You’re always going to be working for the rest of your life, so make sure you’re doing something you’re really going to enjoy,” she said. Internships are valuable, she said, but don’t replicate real work. “A summer’s not the same as being there the whole year.”

While still a student, Colon also joined ALPFA (Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting). She now helps coordinates events for the Boston chapter and where networking led to her most recent job change. “You need mentors and a network to help show you the way, especially for people who might not have opportunities available to them all the time,” she said.

What are your top three goals for the year?

To continue to grow both in my career and in life, continue to mentor less experienced professionals and continue to work in the community through organizations like ALPFA.

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Emerging Leader

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Date: Friday, August 12, 2011, 6:00am EDT – Last Modified: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 12:45pm EDT

Juan Lopera, director of contracting strategy and analytics at Tufts Health Plan.

As director of contracting strategy and analytics at Tufts Health Plan, Juan Lopera is about as close as anyone can be to the heart of the debate over health care reform.

In his role, Lopera helps Tufts set reimbursement rates and works with regulators to help shape policy around payment reform. “There’s a lot of talk about that being a key component to health care reform,” he said. “We are on the forefront of that movement away from paying for volume of care to focus more on quality and outcomes.”

Lopera is also at the forefront at ALPFA (Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting) Boston, where he founded ALPFA Healthcare to focus on career opportunities in one of the city’s most vibrant and important industries.

In June, the group held its first health care summit, drawing Steward Health Care LLC CEO Ralph De La Torre as keynote and other key health care movers and shakers.

“It’s generated a lot of interest and we have a lot of sponsorship support already,” reflecting the need for the industry to draw the top talent from as diverse a pool of candidates as possible, Lopera said. ”For me, it’s something I spend a lot of time on because I’m passionate about providing opportunities for others the way so many did for me.”

What are your top three goals for the year?

To play an influential role in improving the efficiency and affordability of health care in the state of Massachusetts through my work at Tufts Health Plan. To maintain strong community leadership with a focus on the development of diverse talent through my involvement as executive vice president of ALPFA Boston. And to expand ALPFA’s Latino professional network to the health care industry as founder of ALPFA Healthcare.

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