Somerset County’s first ever Diversity & Inclusion Summit had an established group of speakers that included:

Moderator: Paula Gutierrez, Director, Diversity & Inclusion Babs Siperstein PROUD Center Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset

Keynote Speaker: Hester Agudosi Chief Diversity Officer, New Jersey Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Panelists: Linda Bowden New Jersey Regional President PNC Bank and Chair, NJ Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors

Mariano Gutierrez Head of Global Marketing Operations MetLife

Paul Grzella Somerset County Diversity Committee

Sadaf Jaffer Mayor Montgomery Township Magda Yrizarry Chief Diversity Officer Verizon

Check out the video below for highlights of the day’s event.

Somerset County Business Partnership collaborated with the Somerset Planning Board to develop a resource that summarized what a business operating in Somerset County “needs to know” about our growing diversity. We assembled a Diversity Task Force that helped us make the case that our growing diversity gives us a competitive advantage by helping us attract and retain the best talent, keep us innovative, and ahead of the curve. See what we found in this report.