Edward Weil Reyes AGF's Board of Directors Member

As Chairman/ founder of Americas Global Foundation I am delighted to welcome Mr. Edward Weil Reyes as a member of our Board of Directors.

Ed, I pray that your enthusiastic motivation, vast professional experience, relationships, and fund raising abilities enables you to effectively contribute to successfully help us implement AGF’s mission and vision, its exceptional programs, projects, and events, directed to empowering Hispanics, Latin Americans and others around the globe.

Victor Pinzon

Edward Weil Reyes

FORTUNE 500 SUPPLIER DIVERSITY INVESTMENT EXECUTIVE

Puts programs on a world-class track

Key member of Unisys Corporation’s leadership/management team that in 48 months (1998-2002)…

Managed supplier diversity investment totaling $291+ million, maintaining a 5+% average (of a total of $5.4 billion in domestic procurement spending) in a severely contracting business era…FY 2002 is on track to nearly 5.9% of a projected $1 billion domestic procurement spending

Strengthened supplier diversity advocacy and reporting systems in complex large-scale supply chains…assisted in development of NMSDC 2^nd Tier Guidelines…advisory board member of NWBOC… member of Technical Committee of WBENC

Pioneered and expanded supplier diversity initiatives in non-traditional public/commercial arenas…championed and won top executive commitment to partnering with service-disabled veterans organizations and the service-disabled business community

Identified and orchestrated relationships with qualified diverse suppliers for “big hits” high-dollar volume including subcontracting to a minority-owned firm for the corporation’s copy machine and supplies contract and outsourcing of parts repair distribution center to a woman-owned firmed

Won program recognition…

NMSDC 1998 Virginia regional council’s “Corporation-of-Year” award

Virginia’s 1998 “Executive-of-Year” recognition for the President of Unisys’s Federal Systems

Virginia’s 1999 “Minority Business Advocate-of-Year” award for Unisys

2001 finalist in Virginia’s Minority Input Committee Corporation-of-Year evaluation

2001 finalist in New York New Jersey regional council’s “Corporation-of-Year” award

2001 nominee for WBENC’s America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises

Designed and executed multi-channel initiatives that continuously raised the profile and participation of supplier diverse partners including websites, showcase events, and intern training/mentoring
Previous business experience as founder/principal and adviser/consultant to a diverse range of small businesses involving development, financial analysis, and public relations advocacy.
In-depth understanding of cultural and business protocols…native Panamanian …working knowledge of Spanish language

KEY SUPPLIER DIVERSITY BUSINESS CHALLENGES & RESULTS

1998-present
Challenged to expand opportunities in Unisys Corporation’s supply chain for MWBE enterprises…the existing program was rooted in a legacy of affirmative action initiatives and was seen as altruistic socio-economic development rather than business development…it was focused on meeting federal public policy requirements and not on the emerging requirements of commercial non-government interests…the thrust of the program in 1998 was on high-profile public relations with less emphasis on substantive programming

In less than 6 months (1998), defined the business case for expanding supplier diversity from a regulation-based, federally mandated system to a commercial imperative throughout Unisys Corporation’s supply chain and with payoffs for a broad range of stakeholders
Won VP of Global Procurement’s enduring commitment and support…the business case established Unisys’s policy regarding supplier diversity that has survived essentially in tact during a business era of severe retrenchment across the board
Championed supplier diversity initiatives including

Leveraging advances in web-enabled technology…for example, sponsoring a web-enabled MWBE site (b2bdiversity.com) that serves as Unisys Corporation’s electronic registration tool for potential MWBE suppliers… the site has been instrumental in attracting 3500 registered MWBE businesses

Spearheading development of distance learning and virtual trade fairs to broaden the reach and effectiveness of programs

Pioneering the design and development of an introductory mini-CD-ROM and electronic instructional brochure on marketing for minority and women-owned businesses

Planning/executing 12 showcase events that have attracted MWBE participants and focused on one-on-one business counseling…developing and rolling out programs that have attracted minority applicants and interns from HBCU institutions

Raising the profile of supplier diversity and sustaining advocacy for it by developing a laminated card for training participants providing a desktop reminder of diversity acronyms, the supplier diversity business case and why it’s important to the ongoing success of the corporation

CAREER HISTORY

1988-present
Unisys Corporation
            Manager Supplier Diversity 1998-present
            Contract Manager 1993-1998
            Contract & Pricing Manager 1990-1993
            Senior Financial Analyst 1988-1990

1985-1988
Daedalus Research, Inc., West Covina, CA and Petersburg, VA
Principal

1983-1986
InSite Financial, West Covina, CA
Founder/Principal

EDUCATION
BS Business Administration, 1984…University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
NMSDC Business Program Managers’ Annual Regional Training Seminars 1998-2002

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