Only Filipino-American to serve on Fortune 500 Board

A Kettering University alumna is being honored as the only known Filipino-American to serve the board of a Fortune 500 company.

Marissa Toledo Peterson, who earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the former General Motors Institute (Kettering) in 1983, is the only Filipino-American among more than 5,000 corporate board members, according to the Asian Journal.

The publication cited a recent report by Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. that 80 percent of corporations have no Asian Americans on their board.

Peterson, international director of Louisville, Ken.- based health insurance provider Humana, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Economic Development Conference of the National Asian American Coalition in San Francisco in October.