What Zeferino Banda Jr. started in 2003 as a one-man safety-consulting business has defied his own expectations. Now boasting 50 employees, Banda Group International, LLC demonstrates that with enough planning, care, and foresight, accidents are entirely avoidable.
“My career in public health extended into the creative realm when I took a sabbatical to study interior design at The Illinois Institute of Art–Chicago,” says Estela Hartley.
Hector Vallejo breaks down how he’s helped drill into the Hispanic construction segment as multicultural marketing manager for Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Ron Alvarado chose an odd time to launch a recruitment-services company. In 2009, as the country was experiencing some of the most financially troubling times in history, the premise of Alvarado’s Novus Staffing Solutions was to find people jobs when no one was hiring.
Alfredo Flores Sr. never played an instrument, but he sold a small fortune’s worth, building the largest music store in San Antonio. Upon retiring some 40 years ago, he handed the reins to his son, Alfredo Flores Jr., who expanded Alamo Music Center into a mini-mecca for local music lovers.
After graduating law school in 2001, he wound up specializing in airline restructurings, a serendipitous move that took his career to unforeseen heights aboard GE Capital Aviation Services.
Lured by the frenetic pace of the real-life game of car chess, Peruvian-entrepreneur Jorge Peralta lives life on the fast lane with his chauffeuring business World Ground, Inc.
Now, as senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Tampico Beverages, Inc., he’s pushing his company to think outside the juice box.
Their detour into business law and government relations, via their namesake firm, allows them to serve Hispanic-owned midsize businesses with their own personal touch.
U-Haul International’s entrepreneurial origin makes it a perfect fit for Thomas Felíx Tollison, senior assistant general counsel for the marketing group, who always envisioned a future as a corporate counsel.
Cristobal Rivera, a brand manager for MillerCoors LLC in Chicago, shares the secrets behind Coors Light’s successful branding within the Hispanic market.
The experience, however, only taught her independence and resourcefulness—paving the way for the wealth of expertise she brings every day to health insurer Cigna as its chief diversity officer.
Today, he’s one of Texas’s top intellectual-property attorneys working at a firm that specializes in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
As a young girl, Cuban-native Yolanda Nader aspired to be a lawyer. Although she opted for an MBA, her career has kept her close to the courthouse as she leads the fight to ward off competitors seeking to shut her company down.