Skip to main content

Newsroom

Independence executive Juan López receives Hispanic Heritage Award

By October 13, 2017July 9th, 2020Company Updates

Juan LopezJuan López, vice president of Investments and Treasury Services at Independence Blue Cross, was honored with the Hispanic Heritage Award at an October 11 awards event hosted by Latino newspaper, Al Día.

The award was created to recognize the contributions of our region’s most accomplished Latinos in health, education, business, and civic works.

The event honored four leaders in Philadelphia:

Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated in the United States since 1988, when President Ronald Reagan signed a law that officially recognized the presence of Latinos in the country and acknowledged the substantial contributions they have made to the U.S.