PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q1 2025 – Award Winners

2025 Latino & Hispanic Leadership Award Winners

• Akin – Sergio Urias – Partner
• allnex USA – Juan Garcia – Director, Supply Chain Americas
• Crossroads Impact Corp – Eric Donnelly – CEO
• DailyPay – Gregory (“Goyo”) Schipilliti – Director of International
• Dechert LLP – Bernardo L. Piereck de Sá – Partner
• Hughes Hubbard & Reed – Gaela Gehring Flores – Partner
• Hughes Hubbard & Reed – Emilio Saiz – Partner
• IQ Academy Los Angeles – Ana Navarro De Ruiz – Engagement Coach
• Knobbe Martens – Mauricio A. Uribe – Partner
• Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP – Josue Villalta – Partner
• L’ATTITUDE Ventures – Laura Moreno Lucas – General Partner
• Latham & Watkins – Santiago Bejarano – Partner
• Latham & Watkins – Guido Liniado – Partner
• New American Funding – Patty Arvielo – Co-Founder and CEO
• New York Life – Will Colon – Vice President and Head of Foundational Business Operations & Shared Services
• Newmark – Jimena Sayavedra – Associate Director
• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Jesika Silva Blanco – Partner
• Project Bread – Adriana Mendes-Sheldon – Director of Community Partnerships
• Prosperity Now – Marisa Calderon – President & CEO
• RWJBarnabas Health – Teresa Di Elmo – Chief Nursing Officer & Vice President for Patient Care Services
• Salazar Law – Luis Salazar – Partner
• Stretto – Leticia Sanchez – Managing Director
• Stride/K12 – Pamela Anzaldua – High School Teacher
• Stride Inc. – Paola Stauffer – High School Spanish Teacher
• Stride, Inc. – Inez Azucena Ventura-Jackson – Career Learning Program Coordinator
• Transamerica – Gus Ortega – Head of Operational & Nonfinancial Risk Management
• Union Pacific Railroad – Ashanti Mieres – Director Mexico Marketing and Sales
• WilmerHale – Josh Lerner – Partner

2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q1 Winners

• DiCello Levitt LLP – Sara Aguiñiga – Partner
• Gibbons P.C. – Courtney A. Johnson – Government & Regulatory Affairs Attorney
• Lighthouse – Dawn Kelly Garrison, Esq. – Senior Manager Proposal Marketing
• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Alicia Grant – Partner
• Prosperity Now – Jason Wallace – VP of Community Impact
• Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight – Carolin Guentert – Partner, Co-Managing Partner, New York office, Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight and Co-Chair
• Tallo – Allison Danielsen – CEO
• Union Pacific Railroad – Greg Thompson – Superintendent Train Operations
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP – Tania Faransso – Partner

PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q2 2025 – Award Winners

2025 Women Worth Watching^® in STEAM Award

• BeOne Medicines – Melika Davis – SVP, Global Clinical Operations
• Berklee College of Music – Taneshia Nash Laird – Associate Professor, Africana Studies
• Dechert LLP – Nisha Patel Gupta – Partner
• Fish & Richardson – Crystal Culhane – Principal
• Fish & Richardson – Excylyn Hardin-Smith – Principal
• Knobbe Martens – Kimberly J. Miller, Ph.D. – Partner
• Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP – Shelley C. Danek, Ph.D. – Partner
• New York Life Investments – Amanda Gallagher – Managing Director, Global Head of Data and Tech Solutions
• NYC Health + Hospitals – Danielle DiBari – Chief Pharmacy Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, Senior Vice President Business Operations
• Orbital Engineering, Inc. – Mallori Barg – Director of Business Operations – Utility Services
• Oregon State University – Elizabeth Tomasino – Professor of enology
• Robins Kaplan LLP – Emily E. Niles – Partner
• The Norton Law Firm PC – Esther Kim Chang – Partner
• Trilyon, Inc. – Carolyn Joshua – President & CEO
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. – Eva F. Yin – Partner

2025 Asian Leadership Award Winners

• Akin – Inderveer Hothi – Partner
• Akin – Hyongsoon Kim – Head of the Consumer Class Action Practice
• Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP – Sabrina Wang – Partner
• Oncourse Home Solutions – Sylvia Chen – Head of Total Rewards
• Oncourse Home Solutions – Arul Sugunakumar – CTO, Oncourse Home Solutions
• PENN Entertainment – Jane Nguyen – VP of Human Resource Operations
• Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP – Khue Hoang – Co-Managing Partner, New York Office
• Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP – Qiaijing ‘Ella’ Zheng – Managing Partner- Palo Alto and San Francisco offices and Chair of Asian American Litigation and Finance Practice
• Stretto – James M. Le – President & Chief Operating Officer
• The Norton Law Firm PC – Wendy J. Ray – Partner
• Webster Bank – Tammy Leisen – Senior Managing Director of Government Banking

2025 Team Leadership Award Winners

• Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – BLB&G’S Case Development And Client Advisory Group
• PRF Institute – THE PRF Teaching Ministry

2025 Mentoring Leadership Award Winners

• Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – Hannah Ross – Partner and Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee and Board
• Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – Katie Sinderson – Partner
• Colonial Pipeline – Melanie Little – President, Chief Executive Officer
• Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight – Kate Mueting – Firm Administrative Partner; Discrimination and Harassment Practice Group Co-Chair
• Winston & Strawn LLP – Kobi Kennedy Brinson – Partner; Chair, Opportunity & Inclusion Committee; Co-Chair, Financial Services Industry Group

2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q2 Winners

• Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP – Rebecca Boon – Partner
• Tallo – Hannah Bullard – Head of Employer and Workforce Partnerships

PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q3 2025 – Award Winners

2025 Women Worth Watching^® in Leadership Award Winners

• Akin – Amy Kennedy – Partner
• Akin – Parvin Moyne – Partner
• allnex USA – Eileen Weber – R&D Director Americas
• Arrow Electronics – Kim Brown Wilmsen – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
• Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP – Lindsey Strang Aberg – Counsel
• Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP – Jillian Raines – Partner
• Dechert LLP – Allison Fumai – Partner
• FUJIFILM Biotechnologies – Maja Pedersen – Chief Operating Officer
• Gibbons P.C. – Mary Frances Palisano – Director, Business & Commercial Litigation Group; Child Advocacy Team Leader; Pro Bono Chair; Coordinator of the Gibbons Cares Pro Bono Platform
• Globality Inc. – Sonia Mathai – Chief Human Resources Officer
• Hanson Bridgett LLP – Shannon M. Nessier – Sacramento Market Leader, Partner
• HARMAN International – Traci Perry – Senior Vice President, Controlling, Lifestyle Division
• Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP – Amina Hassan – Partner
• Knobbe Martens – Andrea Cheek – Partner
• Knobbe Martens – Carol Pitzel Cruz – Partner
• Merz Aesthetics – Terri Phillips, MD, MPH – Global Chief Medical Affairs Officer
• New York Life – Ridhika Nayar – CFO Technology, Data, AI & Ventures
• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Christine Fernandez Owen – Co-Head of Projects Real Estate, United States
• Oncourse Home Solutions – Marlo J. Gaal – Chief People and Diversity Officer
• Oncourse Home Solutions – Marguerite (Meg) Hillock – Director of External Affairs and Partnerships
• Oncourse Home Solutions – Zisan Tekin – SVP, General Management and Operations
• Pagaya – Tami Rosen – Board Member, Chief Development Officer, Chair of Advisory Board
• Prosperity Now – Chrissi Johnson – Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
• Pryor Cashman – Katherine C. Reilly – Partner
• Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP – Sarah Jorgensen – Founding Partner
• Renita Marshall Helping Hands Foundation – Renita Marshall – Founder & President
• Robins Kaplan LLP – Jamie Kurtz – Partner, Co-Chair of the Health Care Litigation Group
• Stretto – Kavita Sarma – Managing Director, Client Services
• Texas Tech Health El Paso – Gloria M. Loera, DNP, RN, NEA-BC – Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
• UnitedLex – Renee Meisel – CEO

2025 Veteran Leadership Award Winners

• DailyPay – Alexander Haig – Vice President, Public Sector, DailyPay
• New York Life – Christopher M. Mulch – MBA Partner
• Norton Rose Fulbright – Juanmarcos Bañales – Associate
• PENN Entertainment – Sean Demeule – Vice President and General Manager

2025 Native American/Indigenous Leadership Award Winners

• Special Olympics – Tyler Fryberg – Building Bridges Project Coordinator

2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q3 Winners

• DailyPay – Gregory (Goyo) Schipilliti Cid – Director of International and Head of Latino Segment
• Ivy Planning Group – Alex Smith – Vice President, Recruiting
• Ivy Planning Group – Bradley Smith – Consultant and Project Manager
• Ivy Planning Group – Gary Smith II – Business Development
• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Eagle Robinson – Head of Patents, United States

PLJ – Magazine Issue – Q4 2025 – Award Winners

2025 Black Leadership Award Winners

• New York Life – Cheryl James – Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Natasha A. Robertson – Partner

2025 Innovation Leader Award Winners

• Epiq Global – Abbas Najarali – Senior Director of Digital Transformation
• Knobbe Martens – Shannon Lam – Partner
• Latham & Watkins LLP – Haim Zaltzman – Global Vice Chair, Emerging Companies & Growth Practice
• Momentus Capital – Kimberly Dorsett – Chief Human Resources Officer
• New York Life – Dylan Sapienza – AI Product Manager
• Orbital Engineering, Inc. – Robby Frantz – Senior Vice President, Utility Services
• Orbital Engineering, Inc. – David Timczyk – Chief Technology Officer

2025 Legal Leadership Award Winners

• Braverman Greenspun, P.C. – Tracy Peterson – Principal
• Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna – Robin Cohen – Chair
• Epiq Global, Inc. – Matthew J. Cates – Vice President, Legal
• Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP – Daniel M. Horowitz – Partner
• Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP – Fara Tabatabai – Partner
• Latham & Watkins LLP – Steve Feldman – Global Chair of Latham’s Complex Commercial Litigation Practice
• Moses & Singer LLP – Isaac S. Greaney – Partner, Chair – Litigation Practice Group
• New York Life – Regina Won – Associate General Counsel
• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Alyssa Vazquez – US Head of Aviation
• Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight – Christine Dunn – Co-Managing Partner, DC Office and Co-Chair Sexual Violence, Title IX and Victims’ Rights Practice Group
• Seward & Kissel LLP – James C. Cofer – Managing Partner; Chair, Management Committee; Chair, Tax, ERISA, Trust & Estates Group

2025 Joyful Leadership Award Winners

• Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Carter Dugan – Partner-in-Charge, Houston
• Orbital Engineering, Inc. – Dave Karafa – Executive Vice President, Utility Services

2025 Emerging Leaders Award Q4 Winners

• Braverman Greenspun, P.C. – Tracy Peterson – Principal
• Braverman Greenspun, P.C. – Michael A. Savino – Partner
• Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP – Orrie Levy – Partner
• DailyPay – Jeff Vanzant – Vice President, Revenue Operations
• Epiq – Daphnée Lacroix – Senior Marketing Specialist
• FBT Gibbons LLP – Annie Collart – Partner, White Collar & Investigations
• Norton Rose Fulbright – Beau Cox – Partner
• Orbital Engineering, Inc. – Daniel Powers – Department Manager, Joint Use Services
• Stretto – Janáe M. Holmes – Human Resources and Facilities Manager