Linda Martinez’s career is a tale of two professions: law and film production. Though they require very different skill sets, Martinez is able to use both in her VP role at Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Cuba-native Raul Valdes-Fauli serves his community as a lawyer and civil servant. “Since I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer,” Valdes-Fauli says. “It wasn’t a decision. I never wanted to be anything else.”
“The current housing crisis has led millions of lower- and middle-income families—including many Hispanics—into foreclosure,” says Bruce Gago, founder of Bay Realty Capital. “This motivated me to create Bay Realty Capital, a for-profit investment firm to purchase distressed homes and convert them into affordable rental housing, which would meet an important market need.”
With an intertwined family history and shared background and values, brothers Marcel and Gabriel Navarro and Martin Pico, now principals at MMG Equity Partners, coincide in their approach to business: building a legacy.
Heading the largest wholesale distributor of swimming-pool supplies in the world, with $1.8 billion in last year’s sales, Pool Corporation’s Manuel Perez de la Mesa details how the hard-work ethic instilled by his parents have paved the way to prosperity.
From a small grocery store and tortilla plant started by the Villarreal brothers to one of the biggest Hispanic-owned corporations in Wisconsin, here is the story behind El Rey Mexican Products Inc’s. explosive growth.
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.
Taking the reins of the family business is always a risky proposition, marked by unique challenges but also incomparable rewards. Meet five fresh-faced entrepreneurs who are catapulting their parents’ ventures to the next level—one bold idea at a time.
Victoria Jenn Rodriguez knows embarking on a new adventure can be intimidating. But she did it anyway, first with VJR Enterprises and now with the Dare to Leap Academy.