Ramon Martinez

Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Martinez, USAF (retired), is a senior consultant in business strategy, management insight, and public policy. He converges his unique professional experiences and insights to help companies sustain healthy growth and build resilience. A popular speaker, Ramon has served as keynote speaker for a Fortune 10 company.

Ramon has worked in the private sector as president of Advanzeon Solutions, Inc., a publicly held healthcare management company. He has also worked as vice president of Genetics and IVF Institute.

Colonel Martinez served a twenty-year military career in the regular component of the US Air Force. He climbed the ranks as a combat crew commander, test director and program manager of intercontinental ballistic missiles, as an assistant professor of philosophy at the US Air Force Academy, as a deputy secretary of the Inter-American Defense Board, as a US National Defense Fellow at the University of Miami, as Chief of Latin American Strategy of US Southern Command, and as an interim director of the US Southern Command Washington Field Office.

Ramon has served in various leadership positions in the nonprofit sector as well. He was president/CEO of Progreso Latino, Inc., the state of Rhode Island’s flagship Latino empowerment agency and largest bilingual, multicultural community-based organization. Ramon was assistant director of strategic planning at the South Florida Workforce Board. He also taught as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Miami-Dade Community College.

Ramon is recipient of the Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce of Rhode Island Community Leader of 2009, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Providence Branch’s Thurgood Marshall Award of 2008, the NAACP’s highest award, 2008 Service Person of the Year Award of Sigma Nu Chapter Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and the Providence Phoenix Newspaper Local Hero of 2008.

You can contact the author at RMartinez@xteksolutions.com.