People on the Move
Shelby Hill
Mark Garner
Alfonso Martinez
Carol Hoffman
Al Williams
The Marriott Foundation
for People with
Disabilities has appointed
SHELBY HILL as program director of their
Washington, D.C./Metro
Bridges office. She will
manage a team that will
work with schools to help
transition young adults
with disabilities into
positions with employers
in Montgomery County
and Washington, D.C.
The team has placed
more than 2,000 young
adults with disabilities
since opening in 1990.
Hill started her career at
the JW Marriott Hotel
in Washington, D.C., as
a front-desk clerk and
has been with Marriott
for 17 years. Marriott
International is No. 4 on
The 2009 DiversityInc
Top 50 Companies for
Diversity® list.
The National Association
for Multi-ethnicity
in Communications
(NAMIC) named MARK
GARNER to head the
board of directors.
Garner, vice president of
distribution and business
development for A&E
Television Networks, will
be joined on the board’s
executive committee by
Kathy Johnson, president
of NAMIC; Mae Douglas,
senior vice president and
chief people officer, Cox
Communications (No. 17
in the DiversityInc Top
50); Marsha J. Conaway,
regional vice president
of human resources,
Midwest Region, Time
Warner Cable (No. 38);
and Lucinda Martinez
Desir, vice president of
market development,
Home Box Office (HBO).
Newly elected board
members include Eric
Brown, executive vice
president, The Africa
Channel; Jason Eanes,
vice president of affiliate sales, Univision; Lisa
Choi-Owens, senior vice
president of distribution
and partnerships, Scripps
Networks Digital; and
Michelle Rice, executive
vice president, affiliate
sales and marketing, TV
One. Returning board
members include Earle
F. Jones, vice president,
federal affairs, Comcast
Eastern Division; and
Loretta Young Walker,
senior vice president
and chief human-resources officer, Turner
Broadcasting System,
part of Time Warner,
one of DiversityInc’s 25
Noteworthy Companies.
ALFONSO MARTINEZ
is now NII Holdings’
vice president and
chief human-resources
officer. He is responsible
for developing and
implementing human-capital strategies to
improve the company’s
performance. Martinez
oversees all human-resources functions,
ranging from recruiting
and training to employee
relations and services.
He previously served as
group vice president of
human resources in a
division of Sodexo that
generated $1.5 billion
in annual revenues.
Martinez represented
Sodexo among nonprofit
organizations such as
the National Hispanic
Corporate Council, the
National Society of
Hispanic MBAs and the
Hispanic College Fund.
He also served as a high-
ranking official for the
Hispanic Association on
Corporate Responsibility
and the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus.
Sodexo is No. 6 in the
DiversityInc Top 50.
The Women’s Business
Enterprise National
Council (WBENC)
appointed 12 new
members to its board
of directors, including:
CAROL HOFFMAN,
senior supplier-diversity
program manager
for Microsoft (one
of DiversityInc’s 25
Noteworthy Companies);
ROSEMARIE SCHMIDT,
vice president and senior
counsel for Marriott
International (No. 4 in
the DiversityInc Top
50); AL WILLIAMS, chief
procurement officer at
Accenture (No. 23); and
BEVERLY WILLIAMSON,
vice president of
business-process
excellence at Johnson &
Johnson (No. 1). WBENC
is the leading advocate
for women-business
enterprises as suppliers
and vendors to U.S.
corporations.
