Luis De La Hoz is a business and community development executive who has focused his entire career on helping local small and mid-sized businesses develop strategies for growth, with particular emphasis in supporting organizations with Latino and minority leadership. In 2019, De La Hoz was recognized by NJ-ROI, for the second year in a row, one of the top 10 most influential people of color in New Jersey, and he has consistently established himself as an undisputed leader in his field.

Throughout his career, Luis has worked with major community involvement organization and other groups in various leadership role. De La Hoz has recently worked as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of New Jersey Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (NJ-SHCC), the largest Chamber of Commerce by membership in the state. De La Hoz also serves on the Board of Directors of Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey BNI Hawks Chapter, Chairman of the Hispanic Small Business Council, Business Track Coordinator - Latinos in Social Media Conference, and Board Member of Middlesex County Workforce Development.

Most recently, De La Hoz started as FVP Regional Director Community Lending NJ & NY for Valley Bank, a 42 Billion bank, the Goal is to build a team of commercial lenders who will work with community partners to improve access to capital for minority own business in undeserved communities and provide Valley with the wide array of financial solutions to help them succeed.

Marco V. Ávila, P.E. is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Maryland. He has been practicing his Civil Engineering Profession for over 36 years (23 Years with WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff). He has experience providing engineering and program/project management services for major infrastructure projects in the public and private sector; including transit, highways, bridges, Public-Private Partnership (P3) and telecommunications.

Additionally, he volunteers as the Chairman of the Board and President of the Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for the past 2 1/2 years: www.mdhcc.org

CEO and Co-Founder of The Healing Hands Foundation: www.thhfoundation.org

Past President of the American Society of Highway Engineers-Chesapeake: www.ashechesapeake.pro

Advisory Council Board Member: Association for Enterprise Growth (AEG)

Board Member at Sail Baltimore

Past President & Board Member at the Engineering Society of Baltimore (ESB): www.esb.org

Baltimore Advisory Council l for St. Jude

Founder and CEO of Golfers For Charity