NEW YORK - Pablo DeFilippi, Inclusiv’s SVP of Membership and Network Engagement, received the 2019 President’s Award from the Asociación de
Ejecutivos de Cooperativas de Puerto Rico (ASEC), Puerto Rico’s principal cooperative membership organization.
DeFilippi was recognized at ASEC’s Annual Convention in Ponce, Puerto Rico on March 16, 2019 for promoting CDFI certification for Puerto Rico’s 114 financial cooperatives.
The President’s Award is the Financial Cooperative Movement's most prestigious honor, celebrating individuals and organizations for their exceptional support of the Financial Cooperative System and the ASEC.
“Pablo has become the voice of Puerto Rico’s financial cooperatives in the United States,” said Eddie W. Alicea, President of ASEC’s Board of Directors and CEO of Cooperativa la Sagrada Familia, the first CDFI certified financial cooperative in Puerto Rico. “Pablo’s guidance was instrumental for Sagrada Familia, the first financial cooperative in Puerto Rico to gain CDFI certification, and for four other cooperatives that recently received technical assistance grants from the CDFI Fund. His commitment to help and the guidance he has provided to financial cooperatives in Puerto Rico led ASEC to grant him this important award.”
"I am honored to receive this recognition that validates the important work Inclusiv and a growing coalition of credit unions, industry leaders and partner organizations set out to do in the aftermath of Hurricane María. As much as we have helped, we have also learned from the resiliency, commitment, leadership and determination that make the cooperativas de ahorro y crédito of Puerto Rico such a vital part of the local economy. We thank everyone for welcoming us into their movement and for giving us an opportunity to build a bridge to strengthen the local financial cooperatives so that they can increase their roles as leaders in the rebuilding of a more inclusive Puerto Rico" said DeFilippi