Kevin Suarez is an accounting services professional and a dedicated Filipino- American community advocate. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Kevin attended San Jose State University, earning his Bachelor of Science in Economics. Kevin is currently at the registered public accounting firm; Ernst and Young, in the Audit Assurance practice. Kevin’s desire to see additional representation in the accounting and finance services industries lead him to join up as the Executive Vice President of the San Francisco chapter of the International Society of Filipinos in Finance and Accounting (ISFFA); an organization that is dedicated to educating, training and mentoring emerging Filipino and Filipino-American professionals in the accounting and financial services industries. Kevin is a proud alumnus of EPYC (Empowering Youth Through Collaboration); the National Federation of Filipino American Association’s Youth Program, and was most recently elected as NAFFAA’s Northern California Region Chair in 2022. Kevin has also been a member of the San Jose based organization; LEAD Filipino since 2017, and is also a Board Member of the Sacramento based political action committee; SacFilPAC. Kevin’s goal with these organizations is to help train, motivate and inspire the next generation of Filipino-American community leaders, to not just break the “bamboo ceiling”, but to also fully realize their potential in their given passions and careers.