{"id":91364,"date":"2020-12-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-hitec-recognizes-andy-erlandson-as-advocate-of-the-year-award-recipient-during-the-hitec-awards-celebration\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T01:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:03:03","slug":"hitec-reconoce-a-andy-erlandson-como-el-ganador-del-premio-portavoz-del-ano-durante-la-ceremonia-de-premiacion-de-hitec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/hitec-reconoce-a-andy-erlandson-como-el-ganador-del-premio-portavoz-del-ano-durante-la-ceremonia-de-premiacion-de-hitec\/","title":{"rendered":"HITEC Recognizes Andy Erlandson as Advocate of the Year Award Recipient During the HITEC Awards Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 3, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=4074303918&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hitecglobal.org%2F&amp;a=HITEC\" rel=\"nofollow\">HITEC<\/a>\u00a0 is pleased to recognize <span class=\"xn-person\">Andy Erlandson<\/span>, former General Manager at Microsoft, as the 2020 Advocate of the Year Award recipient. Mr. Erlandson will be recognized with this prestigious award at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=2086894898&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3fFO82D&amp;a=HITEC+Awards+Celebration\" rel=\"nofollow\">HITEC Awards Celebration<\/a>\u00a0December 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always a true ally \u2013 <span class=\"xn-person\">Andy Erlandson<\/span> embodies the essence of the Advocate Award.\u00a0 His impact was felt immediately throughout the HITEC organization when he joined our mission and it carried into his years of service on the Board and beyond.&#8221; said <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=1531233065&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3qn4MsS&amp;a=Jesse+Cortez\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Jesse Cortez<\/span><\/a>, HITEC Board Member and Vice President of Executive Talent at McKesson. &#8220;As only the second ever recipient in the history of the organization, I am proud to see him recognized for his inclusive leadership.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The Advocate of the Year Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated continued support of and has been a champion for HITEC and its mission to advance technology leaders in the Hispanic community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of the HITEC board and our community, I feel so honored to be able to give such an honor to our great Advocate, <span class=\"xn-person\">Andy Erlandson<\/span>,&#8221; stated HITEC Chairman, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=1026331921&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F36I3Doc&amp;a=Guillermo+Diaz%2C+Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Guillermo Diaz, Jr.<\/span><\/a>, CEO of Kloudspot.\u00a0 &#8220;Having worked with Andy over the years and sharing a passion to build the next generation of leaders, who happen to be Hispanic, I know firsthand his contributions and again beyond thrilled to see this happen.\u00a0 Thank you, Andy, now to be known as Andres our Advocate!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a tremendous honor to be recognized by HITEC, an organization I believe in with all my heart.\u00a0 That puts people and their growth first.\u00a0 That honors diversity in all senses of the word.\u00a0 And that stands for the rights of all.\u00a0 I am proud to support the mission of HITEC and expect to always be a strong advocate for the organization and its people,&#8221; shared <span class=\"xn-person\">Andy Erlandson<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>HITEC is the premier global executive leadership organization of senior business and technology executives.\u00a0 Part of the organization&#8217;s mission to celebrate and increase Hispanic representation, building stronger technology and executive leaders in the diversity-challenged technology industry.<\/p>\n<p>HITEC Awardees will be recognized during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=2086894898&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3fFO82D&amp;a=HITEC+Awards+Celebration\" rel=\"nofollow\">HITEC Awards Celebration<\/a>, December\u00a0 8, 2020, held\u00a0virtually. <\/p>\n<p><u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=184526652&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hitecglobal.org%2Fpage%2FAbout&amp;a=About+HITEC\" rel=\"nofollow\">About HITEC<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Hispanic IT Executive Council<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 3, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001452-1&amp;h=4074303918&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hitecglobal.org%2F&amp;a=HITEC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">HITEC<\/a>\u00a0 is pleased to recognize <span class=\"xn-person\">Andy Erlandson<\/span>, former General Manager at Microsoft, as the 2020 Advocate of the Year Award recipient. Mr. Erlandson will be recognized with this prestigious award at the &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}