Ana Mollinedo MimsSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Mims has over 26 years of experience with Fortune 500 organizations such as Cable & Wireless International, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. She is a skilled collaborator who can establish partnerships and alliances, connect strategy to reality, and turn innovation into a better market presence. She is equally at ease with CEOs, boards, and employee groups.

She has considerable expertise in government and regulatory procedures, merger and acquisition communication, marketing and brand management, and crisis communication. She is a big believer in analytics and understands the significance of return on investment firsthand.

Mims has also worked with several nonprofit and minority-based organizations outside of the corporate world, including The Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was the Executive Director responsible for the Center's operations and managing the Estate of Martin Luther King's intellectual property rights.

Keeping the Faith, her debut novel, got an honorable mention at the International Latin Book Awards. Mims was also a national spokesperson for the Catalyst study, Latinas in the Workplace: What Employers and Managers Need to Know. Profiles in Diversity named her one of its "Women to Watch in Business" in 2006.

She has served on the Hispanic College Fund's Board of Trustees, the Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance's Board of Directors, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau's Board of Directors, the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's Senior Executive Corporate Board, and is an alumna and member of Leadership Atlanta Class 2000.

Mims completed the famous Harvard Business School Executive Program, where she specialized in Corporate Board Leadership and Governance. She has also completed the Tuck-SMU Reputation and Branding Program in Singapore, where she resides and operates one of her consultancy firm's offices.

Mims also has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Barry University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Political History and an MBA in Finance from Nova Southeastern University. Mims, an enthusiastic sailor, has sailed throughout Australia and the Caribbean.

On land, she enjoys golf, cross-country skiing, and can frequently be spotted behind the wheel of her automobile on Malaysia's F1 circuit.