Gerry Fernandez

As president and founder of the Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance (MFHA) — an educational non-profit organization that makes the business case for developing cultural intelligence in the workplace — Fernandez has spent decades educating and advocating for the business benefits of cultural diversity and inclusion in the foodservice and hospitality industry. An engagingly energetic speaker who practices “straight talk,” he travels across the U.S. and internationally, bringing authentic perspective on building cultural intelligence that raises the topline, improves the bottom line, and builds brands’ cultural authenticity. Fernandez was named to Nation’s Restaurant News’ 2018 Power List of the 50 most influential people in foodservice, “the definitive list of industry leaders who are not only setting trends today, but also shaping them for tomorrow.”