Jose Alfredo Suarez is a risk management consultant with the Alera Group, where he specializes in commercial business insurance and surety bonding with a focus on disadvantaged, women, veteran and minority owned companies. With close to two decades of insurance experience, he has helped develop numerous property and casualty insurance programs with a focus on construction, real estate, healthcare and manufacturing companies. Suarez strongly believes in giving back to the community and currently serves as a Board Trustee for Humboldt Park Health, a member of the Advisory Board for the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE), part of the Contractors Development Committee for the Hispanic American Construction Industry Association (HACIA), a member of the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (IHCC) and the co-founder of the Executive Latino Council.