President & CEO
Javier Alberto Soto is president and CEO of The Denver Foundation. Since 2019, Javier led the development of a strategic framework, the mobilization of significant resources to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, and the foundation’s 100th anniversary.
Previously, Javier served as president and CEO of The Miami Foundation. Javier has been on several civic and corporate boards and was awarded Denver Business Journal’s Leader in Diversity Award in 2024. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2026 and the Colorado Forum since 2023. He was awarded the Denver Business Journal’s Leader in Diversity Award in 2024.
Javier has a B.A. in History and Political Science from Florida State University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado Denver.
