After Greg Cardenas graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in finance, he had no intention of going to graduate school, let alone becoming an attorney. But after spending a session in the Texas governor’s budget and planning office, law school sounded like a good idea. Cardenas shares with HE some of the other turns his professional path has taken on his way to executive vice president, secretary, and general counsel of USMD Holdings, Inc.
Laura Gump explains why being a female leader at H-E-B just makes sense. “I bring an insider’s perspective to my position as VP of operations,” she says.
Growing up in a rural town in northwest Ohio, Trinidad Flores attributes his drive to succeed to the blue-collar nature of his childhood. “I looked at opportunities to excel very early in my life and I took advantage of those,” Flores says.
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Luis Felipe Vilarin leverages his Chilean roots into a competitive advantage when doing business abroad. “Growing up in the United States to immigrant parents has inspired me to work hard, to never take anything for granted, and to seize every opportunity,” he says.