Carmen is a Senior Vice President and Resident Sales Director for Aon Risk Solutions, the leading global commercial risk consulting and brokerage firm. In this role she is responsible for market penetration and enhanced sales throughout the DC, MD and VA region.

She first joined Aon in 2011 as Executive Vice President of Sales for Aon Cornerstone Innovative Solutions, a division of Aon that sources and vets high performing certified MWDBE that specialize in risk management and human resources consulting/outsourcing to deliver supplier diversity inclusive professional services solutions to Aon’s clients worldwide.

Before joining Aon Cornerstone, Carmen served as Vice President, Investor Relations and Business Development for a boutique real estate private equity firm where she was charged with developing targeted fundraising strategies to grow the firm’s assets under management.

Prior to that role, she served as President of The Marathon Club (TMC). Understanding that access to capital has often been one of the biggest challenges facing underserved communities, Carmen led TMC and its unprecedented network of affluent, diverse, deal-focused professionals comprised of The Executive Leadership Council, the National Association of Investment Companies and New America Alliance.

Carmen successfully broke ground, deepening relationships for TMC among some of the most prominent groups of African-American and Hispanic business leaders in the U.S. Under Carmen’s leadership TMC developed vehicles that enabled these groups to close deals in the U.S. and on the international stage, fostering relationships across the globe as delegates to the World Business Angel Association and Committee of 100 - Greater China Conference in China. Her initiative expanded the scope, reach and access of each of the partner organizations in the fastest growing region in the world.

Prior to leading TMC, Carmen engineered programs for a number of non-profit organizations including the New America Alliance, the World Airline Entertainment Association and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC). She currently sits on the board of the NEA Foundation and New America Alliance where she is a co-chair for the American Latina Leadership Coalition.

Carmen, a Dean’s List graduate of the University of Virginia where she received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology. She lives in Virginia with her husband and their three children.