She graduated in Sociology from Princeton, holds a Masters in Personnel Administration from Columbia and a Doctorate of Education from Northern Illinois University.

Pedro holds a Masters in Economics from ISU and a Masters in Healthcare Administration from USC.

Steve’s experience includes having managed annual planning and daily agency operations for three divisions of Health Net of California, the 4th largest medical insurance provider in CA, where he led a state-wide initiative reaching out to the Hispanic population and building brand presence in local communities. Steve has also developed and executed strategic communications plans for Children’s Hospital Central California, for construction materials firm US Gypsum, and with spirits company Pernod Ricard USA, he developed a long-term corporate social responsibility strategy for Chivas Regal brand and guides annual planning of integrated communications in key US Hispanic markets.

Steve has a Masters in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics from Georgetown University.

She holds an MBA with concentrations in Marketing and Finance from the Kennan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

Derene has recently returned to SSG after a two year sabbatical managing a Social Enterprise, whose beneficiary population was low income Latinas, where she refined her skills on generating and measuring social impact. Derene is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco, a pro bono consultant for Juma Ventures, a California based nonprofit whose mission is to break the cycle of poverty by having underserved youth complete college, and a board member of ANewAmerica, a nonprofit whose program offers tools for new American entrepreneurs including microbusiness incubation, asset building, and social responsibility.

Derene earned her MBA in International Marketing from Thunderbird.

Prior to joining SSG, Steve was Senior-Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Humana responsible for marketing, corporate communications, government relations and corporate strategy development. Before joining Humana he was Vice-President of Strategic Planning and Communications for Austin-based LatinWorks Marketing and a principal with Growth Strategies Consulting, a macro-market planning company that used trend analysis to build business strategy. Earlier in his career he founded Moya, Villanueva & Associates, a public relations firm that provided communication strategy in the areas of corporate and Hispanic communications, marketing and public affairs. Recognized as a business leader in the Hispanic community, he built one of the largest and most respected ethnic public relations firms in the country which was sold to Manning, Selvage and Lee, an international communications company where he served as a Senior-Vice President.

Before branching out on his own, Carlos led Bell Atlantic-Verizon’s diversity marketing for 8 years, a business unit with $3 Billion in annual revenue. He oversaw P&L, brand strategy, retail channels, Direct Response promotions, and ROI with a $70M budget.  Carlos is a sought-after speaker on topics related to Hispanic consumer trends and preferences, in-culture marketing and communications, and growth in diversity markets. Carlos holds an MBA with concentration in Business Strategy & Marketing from Washington University.