Women In Business Committee

Description

Inclusive Leadership in the Workplace
Company: Florida Crystals
Speaker: Caroline C Villanueva, S. FL External Affairs Manager
About The Speaker:
Caroline Villanueva is South Florida External Affairs Manager for Florida Crystals where she is responsible for projects pertaining to policy, economic development and community relations in Palm Beach County.  Caroline has worked in the agricultural industry for nearly a decade. 
Caroline is the proud daughter of Peruvian immigrants. Caroline received her Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University and undergraduate business degree from the University of Miami. 
Caroline is the company’s board member to the Central Palm Beach County and Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce and the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden.  She is also a board member of the Lake Okeechobee Regional Economic Alliance of Palm Beach County and of Western Palm Beach County Farm Bureau. Caroline co-chairs the Glades Sub-Committee of the Palm Beach County Strategic Hunger Relief Plan. She is a 2014 graduate of Leadership Palm Beach County, and alum of the University of Florida’s Wedgworth Leadership Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Go Canes!

About the Company: Florida Crystals began as a small sugarcane farming and milling company in Pahokee, Florida, where it was founded by the Fanjul family in 1960. The family’s more than century-long heritage in farming, dating back to 1850 in Cuba, inspired the ideals on which they would build their company: one that values its employees, is committed to giving back to its community and utilizes the most environmentally friendly farming practices to produce the foods that feed its neighbors.

The Women in Business Committee meets the second Thursday of every month in the Chamber Board Room at 12:00 pm. Their mission is to recognize women as valued leaders of the community through the ATHENA Award program. For more information, contact Kirby Davis at kdavis@palmbeaches.org

*This meeting is open to Chamber members & Future Members. Visit the Women in Business webpage for more information about the group here.