
Rafael Andres Diaz-Granados
Chairman and CEO,
TransForce, Inc.
Joined Board: 2023
About Rafael
Rafael Andres Diaz-Granados has served as Chairman and CEO of TransForce, Inc., a CDL driver solutions company, since February 2024. He serves as Executive Chairman of Paragon Integrated Services Group, LLC, an energy and environmental services company, since February 2024 and previously served as Chairman and CEO from 2020 to February 2024. Mr. Diaz-Granados is also co-founder of Angeles Investors, a Hispanic angel investing group, since 2019, and he also currently serves as CEO of Cetan Investments, LLC, a leadership, consulting, and angel investing firm since 2018. He previously served as a director from 2019 to 2020 and then as president and CEO during 2020 of Q'Max Solutions Inc., a multinational oilfield services company. He also previously served as a consultant at Spencer Stuart, a business consulting and services company, from 2016 to 2018.
Prior to joining Paragon, Mr. Diaz-Granados held multiple leadership positions with the General Electric Company (GE), including serving as Chief Restructuring Officer, GE Healthcare, General Counsel and Chief Commercial Officer of GE Latin America, CEO of GE Mexico, and CEO of GE Spain and Portugal. Prior to beginning his career at GE, Mr. Diaz-Granados was an attorney with O'Melveny & Myers, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
He has a wide variety of board leadership experiences at both for-profit and non-profit organizations and served as chairman of the board of Trachte LLC from 2022 to 2024 and as a director from 2021 to 2022. He serves as a member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association, since 2017, and previously served as vice-chair of the board of directors of the education foundation of the Latino Corporate Directors Association, from 2019 to 2021. He also served as an executive director of FIFARMA, from 2019 to 2022, a director of Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation, from 2019 to 2021, and as a director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, from 2016 to 2018.
Mr. Diaz-Granados brings to the Board extensive leadership and investing experience, turnaround and restructuring experience, and a proven track record of delivering strong top-line results, which makes him a valued member of the Board.
Diaz-Granados earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
Committees: Risk Oversight Committee, Human Resources and Compensation Committee (Chair), Executive Committee