The Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC) Board of Directors has announced that Omar Duque will serve as the organization’s next President. Duque is a co-founder of the Latinx Founders Collective, an initiative to build more than 100 venture -funded Latinx startups by 2020.
Over the past 11 years, he has served as the chief executive officer for the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
HITEC’s senior business and technology executives are focused on building leadership teams, corporations, and role models in an information technology-centric world.
“Omar is an experienced, inspiring and transformational leader with a proven record of success scaling non-profit organizations,” said J. Alberto Yépez, HITEC’s board chairman. “He is passionate about the role technology plays in building a better future. Above all, Omar gets the core mission of HITEC, of building the pipeline of the next generation of technology leaders that happen to be Hispanic.”
During his time at IHCC Duque worked to effect transformational social change and achieve sustainable economic impact through entrepreneurship.
“I am excited to join HITEC and look forward to working with the board and the team to advance the organization’s mission of creating career development pathway for Hispanic technology executives and develop the next generation of leaders,” Duque said. “I look forward to meeting one-on-one with the organization’s members and supporters as we work together to drive the organization’s next phase of growth.”
Duque is a Chicago native whose parents immigrated to the United States from Guatemala. He received his Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and worked as a reporter for the Albuquerque Tribune, one of the last afternoon daily newspapers in the country.
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