Jose' Sosa

Pemberton Township High School

Class of 1968

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First Name	Jose'
Last Name	Sosa
Graduation Year	Class of 1968
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	NJ
Country	United States
Occupation	Management Consultant
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	Playing baseball for Jack Madden
About Me	JOSÃ‰ F. SOSA BIOGRAPHY JosÃ© Sosa is Chief Executive Officer of IntegrityRx, the first and only Minority-Owned company in the Pharmacy Benefit Administrator (PBA) or Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) industry in the United States. IntegrityRxâ€™s mission is to provide its clients with the most transparent and cost-effective service of their pharmaceutical drug benefits program in this industry. During a 15-year career at Johnson & Johnson, Sosa served as Director of External Affairs-Corporate Government Affairs and was responsible for developing strategic alliances with local, state and national multicultural leaders and organizations; in this position, Sosa succeeded in creating healthcare awareness partnerships and gaining the support of community-based organizations on issues of mutual importance. Sosa also served as Director of State Government Affairs; in this capacity, Sosa earned Johnson & Johnsonâ€™s highest award for performance (Standards of Leadership Award) for successfully lobbying against the New Jersey Legislatureâ€™s efforts to increase the Corporate Business Tax. Sosa also chaired a Johnson & Johnson Policy Group on Cuba; he authored the company policy with respect to its position on company travel to Cuba, business dealings with Cuban government officials and to provision of humanitarian assistance. The companyâ€™s policy has resulted in the generation of goodwill with leading Cuban-American members of Congress and other key opinion leaders in South Florida. Sosa served in the New Jersey General Assembly from January 1992 to January 1994. As the prime sponsor of successful legislation to reduce the New Jersey State Sales Tax and other legislation aimed at bolstering the state's economy, former Assemblyman Sosa served his term as the highest-ranking Republican of Puerto Rican descent in the United States. A former Vice Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, Sosa was tapped as a leading spokesman for the Republican National Committee during the 1992 presidential campaign. He addressed the nation at the Republican National Convention in Houston, the only public official from New Jersey bestowed this honor. With a lengthy background in manufacturing management, pharmaceutical sales, and sales training and government relations while working at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now known as GlaxoSmithKline), Sosa first entered public service in 1986, when he was elected to the Mount Holly Township Council in Burlington County, New Jersey. He was subsequently re-elected, and served two terms as Mayor and retired from the Township Council in June of 1992. During his tenure in the General Assembly, Johnson & Johnson retained Sosa as a consultant to lead an effort against the Clinton Administration's proposed tax code changes that would have resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs in Puerto Rico. Working closely with business and government leaders in the United States and Puerto Rico, Sosa created, organized and managed a grassroots campaign to preserve Section 936 of the IRS Tax Code. Created as the PRO-S936 Committee (Puerto Ricans Organized to Save 936), Sosa's leadership resulted in the generation of one-half million signatures from mainland Puerto Rican-Americans who protested the Clinton Administrationâ€™s intentions. His efforts and those of other Puerto Rican elected officials and community leaders ultimately led to a negotiated, job-saving compromise on Section 936 and which also preserved tax benefits to numerous corporations. In recognition of his leadership efforts on behalf of The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, former Governor Pedro Rossello' appointed Sosa to serve as Chairman of the National Hispanic Leadership Summit. Comprised of a broad spectrum of national Hispanic leaders, the Summit was responsible for examining national public policy issues in the context of their impact on the Hispanic community in the mainland United States and in Puerto Rico. JOSÃ‰ F. SOSA -2- Involved in a variety of civic activities, Sosa is a former member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Broadcasting Authority, the Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority and the Human Services Board of Burlington County, New Jersey. He was appointed by former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman to the Board of Trustees of The College of New Jersey, and served for six years. Sosa was the commencement speaker at the 1992 graduation ceremonies at Burlington County (NJ) College and at the 1994 ceremonies at The College of New Jersey. Appointed to Governor Whitman's 1993 Transition Team, Sosa served as Chairman of the Transportation Department Transition Committee. In April 2004, Latino Leaders Magazine named Sosa one of the Top Ten Latino Leaders in Health Care. Sosa served on the Corporate Board of Advisors of the National Council of La Raza, the National Puerto Rican Coalition, the Cuban-American National Council, the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey and the Council of Federations of Mexican Immigrants in North America, a California coalition of Immigrant groups that represent the interests of over 400,000 people. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Congreso de Latinos Unidos, a non-profit, social-services organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sosa is a graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and attended the Johnson & Johnson Advanced Management Program at the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University. He served in the New Jersey Air National Guard from...(read more)