Alfonso "Al" Martinez-Fonts Jr. is a businessperson who was the assistant secretary for the Private Sector Office at the

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from November 2005 until April 2009, and former executive vice president of the nonprofit U.S. Chamber of Commerce foundation from October 2010 to December 2014.Alfonso Martinez-Fonts Jr., Former Executive Vice President
/ref> Martinez-Fonts was responsible for the Private Sector Office, which provides a link between the

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and the private sector of the United States. After Martinez-Fonts left the public sector in April 2009, he founded Al Martinez-Fonts, LLC, a consulting company. Prior to serving in the government, Martinez-Fonts was the chairman and chief executive officer for JP Morgan Chase in

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. Prior to this position, he was the president of a bank in

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, and served as the chairman of the board of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce in 1993. After his El Paso position he was a senior executive for Chase Bank of Texas in Houston. Martinez-Fonts received his bachelor's degree from

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in political science in 1971, and an

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from

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focusing in finance, in 1974. Martinez-Fonts is married to his wife Raquel. They have three children.

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