It took 130 years for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce to hire a woman and a Latino to fill its top staff job.
Maria S. Salinas is the first woman and the first Latino to run the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.
in Sacramento, said Salinas, 52. She’s in charge of 88 employees and works with an annual budget of about $14 million.Decades before she was schmoozing with politicians and executives, a teenage Maria Sanchez faced a roadblock. Her parents thought that Salinas was offered her first accounting job while still in school and later was recruited by Ernst & Young and then by Walt Disney Co. She spent 11 years there doing “a lot of different project work that touched so many divisions,” Salinas said. Eventually “I was responsible for financial reporting on a global basis for all the merchandise divisions, everything from the Disney stores to our publishing business, to the video business, to licensing.
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