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LUIS MAIZEL
SUSANA MARTÍNEZ
1 O1 MO ST I N F LU E N T I A L L AT I N O S
FOUNDER AND SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR, LM CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
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JORGE MAS CHAIRMAN OF MASTEC INC.
• He is in his 50s
GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO
• He lives in San Diego
• She is married to Chuck, stepmother to his son, and caretaker to her older sister, Lettie, who has cerebral palsy
1971: Graduated from The National University of Mexico with a degree in industrial engineering 1974: Graduated from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar 1984: Ended four-year tenure as president at Industrias Kuick, S.A. and Blount Agroindustras, S.A.
Born on July 14, 1959 1997-2010 District Attorney 2011- Governor of New Mexico 2013- Named Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world
Luis Maizel is the Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of LM Capital Group, LLC. Prior to founding LM Capital, he served as Vice President of Finance for Grupoventas, S.A. and was a member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School. He was also President of Industrial Kuick, S.A. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Hispanic National Mortgage Association and President of the Investment Committee for the Board of Trustees of the University of San Diego.
Three terms serving as District Attorney helped her win the 2011 Governor’s race in New Mexico, becoming the first Hispanic female governor in the United States. Raised in the Rio Grande Valley, Martínez graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Well respected for her bi-partisanship in New Mexico and instrumental in passing Katie’s Law, requiring DNA from all felony arrests. Rumors speculated that she was Romney’s pick as a running mate, which she declined to reporters.
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1994: Publicly traded Burnup & Sims acquired Church & Tower (owned and operated by Mas’ father) and Mas became CEO and changed the name to MasTec 1997: MasTec went public on the New York Stock Exchange 1998: First Hispanic-owned firm to reach the $1 billion revenue mark
Jorge Más is the Chairman of MasTec, a publicly-traded utility infrastructure contracting company that ranks number 562 on the Fortune 1000. MasTec has over $4.6 billion in revenue and over 18,000 employees in North America. Más also serves in additional leadership roles as Founder of Mas Equity Partners, Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, director of the Mas Family Foundation, and a member of the board of Overseers of the University of Miami School of Business. www.mastec.com
www.governor.state.nm.us/Meet_Governor_ (@Gov_Martinez Martinez.aspx
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
FINANCE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
DEPUTY SECRETARY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
MANAGING PARTNER OF MEDINA CAPITAL
U.S. SENATOR (D), NEW JERSEY
• DOB: November 24, 1959. Mayorkas and his wife, Tanya, have two daughters, Giselle and Amelia.
• Medina was born in Matanzas, Cuba and left in 1965, when he was 13.
2009-2013: Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 2013: Appointed Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
Manuel Medina heads Medina Capital, a private equity firm focused on high-growth technology companies in sectors such as cybersecurity, big data, mobility and cloud-based technologies, announced late in 2014 the closing of the firm’s Fund with $182 million of aggregate committed capital. In his early career, Medina, worked as certified public accountant, with Price Waterhouse after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University in 1974. Later, in 1980, he started his own company, Terremark, and served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer until 2011, when the company was acquired by Verizon Communications for $1.4billion, out of which he would receive about $83 million from his 4.4 million shares, almost 7 percent of the company. In addition, Mr. Medina is a managing partner of Communication Investors Group, one of their investors.
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS
Cuban-born Mayorkas is the first foreign-born official to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to this position, he served as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which operates the largest immigration system in the world. In 1998 Mayorkas, who earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, was confirmed by the Senate as United States Attorney for the Central District of California. He has been recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America.” www.dhs.gov/person/alejandro-mayorkas www.facebook.com/pages/AlejandroMayorkas/494245360604030?fref=ts www. facebook.com/homelandsecurity?fref=photo
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ROBERT MENÉNDEZ • Menendez has two children. Born, January 21, 1954 1992: Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 2006: Sworn in as U.S. Senator 2009: Appointed chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Menendez was first elected to the Union City School District’s Board of Education at the age of 20 and went on to become mayor of Union City in 1986. One of only three Latinos in the Senate, he authored comprehensive immigration reform legislation that passed the Senate in 2013 with an overwhelming bipartisan show of support. Menéndez was part of a pretended scandal, but it seems that it was just a punch from his political enemies. www.menendez.senate.gov/ senatormenendez
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