2009 Event
The Latino Business Leadership Awards continues the journey to highlight increasingly powerful achievements in corporate America, entrepreneur-ship, nonprofit/ philanthropy, healthcare, public sector, and emerging leadership under 40.
This year's event will be held on:
September 18, 2009
and hosted at:
San Francisco Hilton
333 O'Farrell St
San Francisco, CA
Agenda
- 6:00 pm - Registration/ Cocktail Reception
- 6:40 pm - Seating for Dinner
- 6:50 pm - Welcome Remarks
- 7:00 pm - Dinner and Musical Performance (made possible by the San Francisco Symphony)
- 7:35 pm - Most Influential Hispanics Honored
- 8:45 pm - SFHCC 25th Anniversary Celebration and Dance
- 11:00 pm - Program End
Live Auction
The live auction will include a 4day/3night stay in a king suite at the Riviera Beach Hotel in Miami Beach with 2 unrestricted tickets on Southwest Airlines.
Total Package valued at $ 1,800.00
Masters of Ceremonies
Roberta Gonzales is a four-time EMMY award winning Weather Anchor for CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5, 6 and 10pm.
Joe Vasquez is an EMMY award winning reporter whose local news career spans more than two decades. As a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, he volunteers his time to empower the next generation of storytellers.
Tickets
Tickets can be purchased online:- Full Program 6pm - 11pm: Dinner and Anniversary Celebration $100 per person
- Anniversary Celebration and Dance only
8:45pm - 11pm: $35 per person
or
Anniversary Dance Music performed by:
There are 1.4 million Latinos calling the Bay Area home. Among these Bay Area resident are people and businesses impacting the Hispanic community on a large scale. For this reason, the SFHCC and Wells Fargo Bank are presenting an event to acknowledge the most influential Hispanics in the Bay Area. The 2009 Latino Business Leadership Awards will acknowledge the 12 most influential Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area in the areas of Corporate, Emerging leaders under 40, Entrepreneurship, Art and Entertainment, Professional Positions and Government Sector.
We will celebrate the contributions that Latinos have made to society and we will recognize the Latinos who pave the way to our future. Spanish has become the U.S.'s de facto second language, Nuevo Latino has taken its rightful place in haute cuisine, the sounds of rock en Espanol and reggaeton have filtered up the charts, and Latinos not only star on but own and manage major league baseball teams. But like any immigrant group that has shaped mainstream U.S. culture before fully asserting its economic or political power, the nation's 41.3 million Hispanics are just getting warmed up.
While they command nearly $600 billion in buying power, they are only starting to attract the marketing attention on Madison Avenue that they merit, and their political clout similarly lags behind their sheer numbers. The country's largest ethnic minority, Latinos promise to help remake America in the 21st century as vitally as African Americans did in the 20th. Still, perhaps more than any of their immigrant predecessors, Latinos defy easy categorization. Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans and Argentine Americans may all speak the same language, but many wouldn't dream of standing under the same cultural umbrella.
A fair number of U.S.-born Hispanics don't speak Spanish, and many others have little or no European blood. Many Latinos believe they belong to a separate race, the product of an epic Latin American miscegenation of Iberian, Native American and African heritage. Such a wide array of opinions and agendas is reflected in the honorees of the Latino Business Leadership Awards. This is an exciting time for our community as we acknowledge the talent and leadership within the Bay Area.
