Kevin Suarez

Region 8 Chair

Kevin Suarez is an accounting services professional, aspiring investor 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 in December of 2018. 

During his collegiate career, Kevin held the role of EVP of De Anza College’s student government, served as a State Chair of a national youth run political organization, volunteered for multiple national and local political campaigns, and served as an intern for San Jose City Council.

Since completing his undergraduate degree, Kevin has worked for 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. As a member of LEAD Filipino’s Civic Engagement team, Kevin assisted the statewide FIERCE Coalition with the planning and execution of the 2018 Filipino Policy Symposium and 2019 Filipino Advocacy Day that was hosted at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. In 2022, Kevin also became a Board Member of the Sacramento based political action committee; SacFilPAC.

Kevin also aspires to be a real estate investor and hopes to pass on the knowledge of intergenerational wealth creation to the wider Filipino-American community.

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.