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2. JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Diana Farrell
President & CEO
JPMorgan Chase Institute
Diana Farrell is the founding President
and Chief Executive Officer of the
JPMorgan Chase Institute. Previously,
Farrell was a Senior Partner at McKinsey &
Company where she was the Global Head of the
McKinsey Center for Government and the
McKinsey Global Institute.
Farrell served in the White House as Deputy
Director of the National Economic Council and
Deputy Assistant to the President on Economic
Policy for 2009-2010. During her tenure, she
led interagency processes and stakeholder
management on a broad portfolio of economic
and legislative initiatives.
Farrell coordinated policy development and
stakeholder engagement for innovation and
competition strategies broadly, and led financial
policy initiatives including the passage of major
legislation. She also served as a member of the
President’s Auto Recovery Task Force.
Farrell currently serves on the Board of
Directors for eBay, The Urban Institute and the
National Bureau of Economic Research, and
is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University. In
addition, she is a Trustee of the Trilateral
Commission and served as a Co-Chair of the
World Economic Forum’s Council on Economic
Progress. Farrell is also a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New
York, the Aspen Strategy Group, the Bretton
Woods Committee and the National Academies of
Science’s Committee on National Statistics.
Farrell holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School, and has a B.A. from Wesleyan University,
from where she was awarded a Distinguished
Alumna award.
3. Johnson & Johnson
Luani Alvarado
Worldwide Vice President, Human Resources
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health
Luani Alvarado serves as Worldwide Vice
President, Human Resources, Johnson
& Johnson Consumer Health and a
member of the Consumer Health Leadership
Team. In her role, Alvarado drives the talent
agenda for the 17,000 associates around
the world who deliver the science-backed,
professionally-endorsed products that help more
than 1.2 billion people lead healthier lives every
day.
Alvarado has been with Johnson &
Johnson for more than 10 years, serving
multiple HR leadership roles in Medical
Devices, Innovation and Enterprise. She is
known for leading large-scale business model
transformation and for creating high-performing,
highly-engaged organizations.
As Worldwide Vice President, Alvarado most
recently oversaw Johnson & Johnson Consumer
Health’s integration of five new companies across
the world, built organizational capabilities in
digital, data sciences and e-commerce, and
strengthened the talent pipeline.
Previously, Alvarado spent eight years at
Bristol-Myers Squibb in Human Resources
working in the U.S. and internationally across
Pharmaceuticals, Consumer and Devices.
Alvarado began her career at Dow Chemical as
a Trainee and member of their General
Management Leadership Development Program
and then transitioned to Human Resources.
Alvarado earned a Master of Business
Administration from the University of Sao Paulo in
Brazil as well as a Graduate Degree in Human
Resources & Strategic Management and a
Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration from Catholic University of
Santos in Brazil. A mom of three, Alvarado
sponsors a child development center in the Latin
community and enjoys traveling with her family.
4. Marriott International, Inc.
Brenda Durham
Senior Vice President and Regional
General Counsel
Brenda Durham, Senior Vice President &
Regional General Counsel for Marriott
International, Inc., serves as primary legal
counsel for Marriott’s hotels and resorts located
throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. In this
capacity she provides oversight guidance to Marriott’s
law department group supporting the region. Her
team is comprised of 14 attorneys, paralegals and
support staff located in offices in Bethesda, Maryland
and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and together,
they support development, operations, asset
management, compliance and casino oversight.
Durham has been with Marriott for 21 years and
is Marriott’s senior ranking Latina. She has a
comprehensive practice that includes negotiating
financial, equity, and management agreement
transactions, hotel owner relationship development
and dispute resolution, and global safety and security.
In January 2016, she was selected as the Caribbean
and Latin America business lead for the integration
of Starwood-branded hotels in the region, which
substantively concluded with the systems merge at
the end of 2018. Durham is the region’s account
executive for a large portfolio owner of mixed-brand
hotels. She is one of the region’s executive
representatives on the Owner Franchise Advisory
Council.
In her prior role, Durham served as the primary
legal counsel supervising Marriott’s law department
group for international operations providing counsel
and oversight to attorneys supporting Asia Pacific,
Middle East Africa and the United Kingdom.
She is a graduate of The George Washington
University Law School. Durham spoke at the CEO
Summit of the Americas on “Women’s Economic
Empowerment.” She is an Ambassador Council
member for N Street Village. N Street’s mission is
to empower homeless and low-income women in
Washington, D.C. to claim their highest quality of
life.
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