Four alumni on magazine's Top 100 Under 50 list

Business alumni honored by magazine

An international magazine"s list of exceptional minority and multicultural executives includes these four alumni of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. They are, from left, John Suarez, Shane Price, Ruben Garcia Espejo and Gary Cao. (Photos from Diversity MBA Magazine)


Four alumni of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University are among the honorees in the 2015 DiversityMBA Magazine Top 100 Under 50.

The list, compiled by DiversityMBA Magazine, recognizes exceptional minority and multicultural executives — including African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, foreign nationals and women — who have achieved success in highly competitive corporate, government or entrepreneurial environments. The 2015 list was chosen from a pool of 300 nominees. Executives and emerging leaders selected for the list represent 25 disciplines, 15 industries and 20 different graduate degrees.

This year"s Freeman School honorees are: Gary Cao, vice president of Cardinal Health, who got his MBA in 1997; Ruben Garcia Espejo, vice president of finance, EnLink Mindstream and a 2001 MBA graduate; Shane Price, senior consultant, Engage Partners, who earned two master"s degrees from the Freeman School in 2009; and John Suarez, financial adviser, Merrill Lynch, who received a bachelor"s degree in 2004 and an MBA in 2010 from the school.

Cao and Garcia were honored as executive leaders while Price and Suarez were chosen as emerging leaders.

Diversity MBA Magazine is an internationally distributed publication targeting women and multicultural professionals in corporate America and government as well as entrepreneurs and business students.

The honorees will be featured in DiversityMBA Magazine"s summer 2015 issue and will be honored in September at the magazine"s Business Leaders Conference and Awards Gala, which this year takes place at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Oak Brook, Illinois.


Executives and emerging leaders selected for the list represent 25 disciplines, 15 industries and 20 different graduate degrees.