Ernesto Morales
Ernesto Morales is the Chief Executive Officer of North Star Alliances, a national community engagement and outreach strategy firm known for its ability to form meaningful strategic partnerships and produce tangible results for their clients. Since Morales founded the firm more than ten years ago, NSA has managed more than 1,300 projects for clients that include the White House, Google, Coca-Cola, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, Cabrera Capital Markets, the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, and L.A. Care, among many others.
Before founding NSA, Morales held the position of Executive Director of Business Development at Rose Hills Memorial Park, the world’s largest single-site memorial park. As Executive Director, he led community engagement and growth strategies geared toward the Hispanic market. Prior to Rose Hills Memorial Park, Morales was the Vice President of Business Development at Cordea Consulting, a boutique healthcare information technology firm. In this role he was responsible for driving the formation of short and long-range business development, sales, and marketing strategies.
Earlier in his career Morales was the Director of Corporate Relations at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. There Morales honed his passion for developing strategic partnerships initiatives. As the Director of Corporate Relations, he generated more than $14 million in new revenue opportunities by advancing partnerships with corporations such as Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Amgen, Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo.
In 2018, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon appointed Morales State Commissioner to the California Employment Training Panel, the state’s premier program for supporting job creation and retention, through training. Morales is also a Board Member of the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation.
Morales holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Pepperdine University.