013 OPINION LEADERS
CORPORATE, BUSINESS
1 O1 MO ST I N F LU E N T I A L L AT I N O S
HENRY CISNEROS
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MARCELO CLAURE
CESAR CONDE E.V.P. NBC UNIVERSAL
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF CITYVIEW
CEO AND DIRECTOR OF SPRINT CORPORATION
• Married Mary Alice Pérez in 1969. They have three children: Teresa Cisneros, Mercedes Cisneros, John Paul Cisneros.
• He is 44. Married: Jordan Engard Residence: Miami, FL and Kansas City, MO
1975-81 City council member for San Antonio. 198189 Mayor of San Antonio. 1993-97 Served as 10th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Co-chairman of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Housing Commission and Immigration Task Force.
Claure founded Brightstar in the late 1990’s and grew it into a company of over $10 billion in revenue with operations in over 50 countries. He is the owner of the Bolivar Soccer Team in his native Bolivia.
With a long career in community-building, Cisneros has ranged anywhere from mayor to housing developer to TV corporate owner. He is now taken another role as a sort of “evangelizer” of climate change to the business sector, helping to shape public opinion on the subject. He was appointed to Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1992 and worked to revitalize several of the country’s public housing developments with new policies, which helped grow the home ownership rate in the country
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Marcelo Claure, the CEO of Sprint Corporation, is one of a handful of Latino CEO’s of multi-billion dollar companies (Sprint ranked number 87 on the Fortune 500 before SoftBank acquired an 80% ownership). Claure also serves on the board of directors of Sprint. He is a wireless industry entrepreneur, having served as Founder and CEO of Brightstar Corp. https://twitter.com/marceloclaure
• Born Dec. 8, 1973, he is married and lives in Miami. At 41, Conde is among the highest-ranked Latinos and youngest executives in English-language broadcast network.
A Harvard graduate and former White House Fellow Conde rose through the executive ranks at Univision to become one of the youngest presidents of an American broadcast network at the age of 36 in 2009. While at the Spanish-language network, he held half a dozen senior positions, from special assistant to the CEO, to VP and operating manager of the Galavisión Network to vice president Univision’s sales and business development. In 2013 Conde joined NBC Universal, where he serves as an executive vice president with general and international business responsibilities, strategic priorities and special business projects http://cesarconde.org
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http://www.cityview.com/contact/index.html
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
MARIA CONTRERASSWEET ADMINISTRATOR, THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
• Born 1955, she lives in Washington, D.C. 1989 Founding president of Hispanas Organized for Political Equality. 1999-2003 Cabinet Secretary of California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. 2001-05 Youngest member to be elected to San Antonio City Council. 2014 Appointed 24th Administrator of the SBA
Maria Contreras-Sweet was named the 24th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2014. Serving as a member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama, her job is to support American small businesses. She has had a long and distinguished career serving as an executive, state cabinet official, and entrepreneur. She previously served with the United States Census Bureau, was Secretary of Business for the State of California, and was the only female executive for the 7-Up/RC Bottling Company. www.sba.gov
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
TED CRUZ
HENRY CUELLAR
U.S. SENATOR (R), TEXAS
U.S. CONGRESSMAN, TEXAS’ 28TH DISTRICT
• Cruz and his wife Heidi have two daughters. • Born, December 22, 1970 2003-2008 Solicitor General of Texas 2012 Elected to the Senate 2015 Announced his candidacy in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
One of only three Latinos in the Senate, Cruz was among the first Republicans to announce his candidacy in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Previously he served as the first Hispanic (and youngest) Solicitor General of Texas, the State’s chief lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been named by American Lawyer Magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century. www.cruz.senate.gov www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage twitter.com/tedcruz / instagram.com/sentedcruz
• Cuellar and his wife Imelda have two children. • Born, September 19, 1955 2001-2002 Texas Secretary of State 2005 Sworn in as U.S. Congressman 2009 Authored the Southern Border Security Taskforce Act of 2009.
The son of migrant workers who never made it past the fifth grade, Cuellar has positioned himself as a strong advocate for education and has often described himself as “the most degreed member of Congress,” having earned an associate’s degree, a bachelor’s in Foreign Service, a master’s degree in International Trade, a law degree, and a Ph.D. in Government. Two schools in his hometown of Laredo are named in his honor. http://cuellar.house.gov/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/US-CongressmanHenry-Cuellar-TX-28/152569121550 https://twitter.com/repcuellar
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