Jorge Mas Santos (born February 28, 1963) is an American billionaire businessman and the chairman and largest shareholder of

MasTec Mastec, Inc. is an American infrastructure engineering and construction company based in Coral Gables, Florida. The company provides engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of energy, utility and communications infrastructur ...

, a

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-based construction and engineering company, founded by his father

Jorge Mas Canosa Jorge Lincoln Mas Canosa (21 September 1939 – 24 November 1997) was a Cuban-American businessman who founded the Cuban American National Foundation and MasTec, a publicly traded company. Regarded within the United States as a powerful lobbyist ...

. Mas is also chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation and managing owner of

Inter Miami CF Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami (), commonly referred to as Inter Miami, is an American professional soccer club based in the Miami metropolitan area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference (M ...

, a Miami-based

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team. He is also president of

Real Zaragoza Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system. Zarag ...

, a Spanish football club. his net worth was estimated at US$1.0 billion.

Education

Mas attended and graduated from the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ...

, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1984 and a master's degree in business administration in 1985 from the University of Miami School of Business.

Career

Mas is the chairman of

(NYSE:MTZ), a company founded by his father. He began his career at Church and Tower, MasTec's predecessor, in 1984. In 1990, Mas co-founded Neff Corporation (NYSE:NFF) a provider of rental construction and utility equipment. In 2005, it was sold for a reported $510 million. He is the managing partner of a private equity group with investments in the fields of aviation, banking, commercial real estate, healthcare, and fixed income trading market makers. He has been on over a dozen corporate boards and has lectured on topics relating to entrepreneurship, corporate strategy and how to develop and motivate leadership teams.

Cuban American National Foundation

Mas is chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), founded by his father in 1981. Mas has taken a more moderate position on Cuba than did his father, a vehement opponent of Castro.

Philanthropy

He is executive director of the Mas Family Foundation, which manages a $5 million endowment.

Personal life

He is married to Aleyda. They have three children and reside in

References

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