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Heavy Industry Winner
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Tony Rey Sr.
CEO/President
Rey Homes
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Based in Orlando, Rey Homes specializes in building and developing high-end homes at
affordable prices. For three consecutive years, Hispanic Business magazine has
listed Rey Homes among the fastest growing Hispanic-owned companies in the U.S.
Mr. Rey and his wife, Isabel, founded Rey Homes in 1978, some eight years after
emigrating to the United States from Cuba at the age of 22. Mr. Rey is the former
president of the United Methodist Church Council of Ministries and is a member of
Fannie Mae´s National Advisory Council. Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed Mr.
Rey to the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority board.
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Infobusiness Winner
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James Goodman
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
Goodman Networks Inc.
James Goodman and his four brothers founded Goodman Networks in February 2000 – just
prior to the collapse of the telecom sector. Goodman Networks became one of the leading
providers of wireline, wireless, and outside plant solutions for both carriers and
manufacturers. In 2005, Goodman Networks was named among the fastest growing technology
companies in the U.S. by Deloitte and the ninth-fastest growing in the Deloitte Texas
Crescent area. That same year, the firm was honored as the Class Four Minority Business
Enterprise Supplier of the Year for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Latina Entrepreneur Winner
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Yvonne "Bonnie" García
President
Market Vision
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Since Bonnie García founded Market Vision in 1998, her Hispanic-focused agency has drawn some
of the nation´s top corporate giants, including Miller Brewing Company, General Mills, and
Coca-Cola. In May, she bought back Market Vision from her former partners, the publicly-traded
CoActive Marketing Group, making Market Vision 100-percent female and minority owned.
Under Ms. Garcia’s leadership, Market Vision has grown more than 200 percent in the last
three years and has added advertising, media planning and buying, and public relations to
its service lineup.
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Rising Star Winner
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Rainier Gonzalez
Chairman & CEO
Pacer Health Corporation
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Rainier Gonzalez´s Pacer Health Corporation specializes in acquiring financially struggling
hospitals that it can fix. For the past three years, Mr. Gonzalez has managed the operations
of hospitals within the Pacer Hospital system – a network of six facilities in the Southeast
totaling 148 licensed beds and with approximately $30 million in net revenues. Billed as an
expert in turning around ailing hospitals, Mr. Gonzalez has successfully directed the turnaround
of all of Pacer Health’s acquired hospitals, and has guided the company from a loss to a
$400,000 profit in fewer than two years.
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Trade Industry Winner
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Enrique A. Tessada
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tessada & Associates, Inc.
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Enrique A. Tessada used a Compaq computer and $500 to found Tessada & Associates in 1993. Since
then, the 20-year Navy aviator, Vietnam veteran, and documentary executive producer has turned
his fledgling firm into a multi-faceted infrastructure solutions company that employs more
than 650 people and has revenues of $70 million. Both the Department of Agriculture´s Food
and Nutrition Service and NASA have named the company Minority Contractor of the Year. Mr.
Tessada serves on the arts board of directors at Mason Partnership, an organization devoted
to helping make the visual and performing arts a part of community life.
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Meet these savvy Hispanic executives at the Hispanic Business EOY Awards
Gala and CEO Capital Markets Roundtable at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in
Los Angeles on Thursday, November 9, 2006.
Click here to view the event agenda.
Click here to register.
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