The biography and position statement of the 2024 IEEE Treasurer is below.

Gerardo Barbosa

Gerardo Barbosa

 

Gerardo Barbosa

IEEE Treasurer

Gerardo sold his first app in 2003 at age 20. He started his first company right after graduation and has co-founded two other software startups during the last decade. He has an Electronics and Communications BS and an IT Management MS from Tecnológico de Monterrey, the first Latin American university in history to receive full accreditation of its engineering programs by ABET. He also completed a Technology Commercialization MS at UT Austin.

He is an active IEEE Senior Member, HKN Member, and Computer Society Member, with over a decade of experience as a Treasurer at the Section, Region and major IEEE OU level, five consecutive years of experience on the IEEE MGA Board of Directors (2019-2023), and three consecutive years of experience as member of the IEEE Finance Committee (2021-2023).

Significant IEEE Activities

Gerardo has been a volunteer for 15 years in positions of increasing responsibility at the Section, Region, MGA Board, and IEEE Committee levels. Starting in his own Section, he organized the formation of the first IEEE-HKN Chapter in Region 9. As Section Chair, he had the highest levels of retention and recruitment in the history of the Section while ensuring new volunteers were trained and engaged to carry on the work after his term ended. At Region 9, he served on the Region Committee for nine years: first as Section Chair (2014-2015), then as Technical Activities / Conference Coordinator (2016-2017), then as Region Treasurer (2018-2020), and finally as Past Treasurer (2021-2022). As MGA Treasurer during the pandemic and the NextGen Finance implementation he made sure that the Treasurers in all the IEEE Geographic Units around the world had the support they needed to complete their financial reporting accurately and on time.

Relevant Experience

IEEE Committees:

  • Finance Committee Member (2021-2023)
  • New Initiatives Committee Member (2023)
  • Strategy and Alignment Committee Member (2023)
  • Data-Based Business Strategy Ad Hoc Committee Member (2022, 2023 under TA)
  • Ad Hoc on NextGen Volunteer Adoption Chair (2022-2023)
  • Ad Hoc on NextGen Implementation (2021)


MGA Board:

  • Treasurer (2021-2023)
  • Finance Committee Chair (2021-2023)
  • Vice Chair – Information Management (2019-2020)
  • Strategic Planning Committee Member (2022-2023)
  • Region Realignment Ad Hoc Committee Member (2021-2023)
  • Operations Committee Member (2019-2023)
  • IT Coordination & Oversight Committee Past Chair (2021-2022)
  • IT Coordination & Oversight Committee Chair (2019-2020)
  • vTools Committee Member (2018)

Region/Section:

  • Region 9 Past Treasurer (2021-2022)
  • Region 9 Treasurer (2018-2020)
  • Region 9 Technical Activities / Conference Coordinator (2016-2017)
  • Monterrey Section Nominations and Appointments Chair (2020-2023)
  • Monterrey Section Chair (2014-2015)
  • Monterrey Section Secretary/Treasurer (2012-2013)
  • Monterrey Section GOLD (now YP) Affinity Group Chair (2010-2011)
  • Monterrey Section Student Activities Chair (2011)
  • Monterrey Section Educational Activities Chair (2009-2010)

Why should we select you to serve in this position?

  • I have served three consecutive years as member of the IEEE FinCom and as Treasurer of one of the major IEEE OUs.
  • I have worked on the NextGen Finance project for the past four years and participated in 100+ NextGen-related meetings.
  • In my role as Chair of the NGVA Ad Hoc Committee, I have worked regularly with our Treasurer, CFO, CIO, key staff from IT and F&A, and volunteers and staff from all the major OUs.
  • I have international, multi-currency experience with IEEE due to my role as Region 9 Treasurer involving 20 countries and at least 12 different currencies.
  • As a business owner, I have founded, funded, and managed three companies in 15 years.

Position Statement

Thank you for considering me to serve as 2024 IEEE Treasurer. If elected, my goals would be:

  1. To ensure IEEE operates in a financially responsible manner that is transparent, successful and compliant with regulations.
  2. To find new ways to provide a stable stream of funding for the best projects of the major OUs, while providing better guidance to all IEEE OUs about investing available reserves or surplus on new initiatives.
  3. To implement a unified volunteer Treasurer training program with templates, on-demand resources and forums, where new and existing Treasurers can learn from experienced volunteers and staff.
  4. To revamp our financial dashboards and presentations to keep track of IEEE financial assets, financial status, and performance against financial goals in a format that is easier to read for the BoD and the Finance Committee.
  5. To keep our volunteer treasurers in mind when making improvements to our financial systems so their job becomes easier over time and the investment IEEE made in NextGen realizes the full potential.
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