Angel M. Cartagena, Jr. is the president of The Cartagena Group, a consulting firm that helps organizations achieve defined goals and to overcome challenges in four key areas of competencies -- personal development, leadership, diversity, and conflict resolution. Angel is the former executive director of the BridgeLeader Network, a consulting firm that helps ministries, organizations, and business corporations to achieve multicultural effectiveness by teaching them to lead, embrace, achieve, and develop (L.E.A.D.) healthy diversity. He is also the former president of Cartagena & Associates, LLC, a utility regulation consulting firm, and the former chairman of the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia. Angel was the first Hispanic to be appointed head of an independent agency in the District of Columbia’s history. Nominated to that position by Mayor Anthony Williams, Angel served as the Commission’s chair from July 2000 to May 2003.

A native of Newark, New Jersey, Angel was awarded a scholarship in 1977 by A Better Chance, Inc. to attend Westminster School in Simsbury, Connecticut. Upon graduation from Westminster, Angel attended Yale University, where he met and married his wife of over 26 years – Dr. Alicia Cartagena. Angel also earned his JD from Boston College Law School and completed all of the class requirements for an MA at Boston University’s College of Communications.

Angel’s career in law started at the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau in April 1988. He subsequently worked with Metromedia Communications, Riverdale Country School, and The Law Offices of Ricardo Morales before returning to the FCC. During his last tenure at the FCC, he worked in the Common Carrier Bureau’s Enforcement Division and in the Office of the Bureau Chief, Consumer Information Bureau.

During his term as the Public Service Commission chair, Angel was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioner’s (NARUC) Committee on Telecommunications and was the president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. He was also the chairman of the Energy Market Access Partnership Board (“EMAP”), co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and NARUC. EMAP was commissioned to help develop policies and practices to increase the presence of minority and woman-owned businesses in the energy industry.

Angel sits on the Board of Directors of the Coordinating Center and on the board of the BridgeLeader Network. He is a resident of Howard County, Maryland.