00:14I am a Mexican immigrant to the U.S. that entered a career in Wall Street 35 years ago
00:23and established my own firm that created opportunities for investment for international clients
00:31that normally don't have that access.
00:33In the course of the past 35 years, I've also encountered that I needed to balance my professional life
00:42with other endeavors and give back to everybody that gave to me.
00:48I need to pass it down, so I've procured teaching others about empowerment,
00:55about integrity, and how to be better persons in the society.
01:04I worked for an industrial park developer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, doing financial analysis in 1986.
01:13I was 19.
01:18This one, I like leading, so being a CEO of a company that I founded, it's incredibly rewarding,
01:26challenging every day, but given my personality, I'd rather be scared than bored.
01:33The company has 30 employees that work with about 50 independent advisors all over Latin America.
01:42We have about $1.5 billion in assets under custody or management with about 2,000 accounts.
01:54Well, I got to first own my own stuff and recognize what was not mine
02:02so that I would not get entangled with somebody that thinks differently or operates differently than myself.
02:10So, and I had a choice to either work with that person or walk away.
02:17Sometimes I walked away and sometimes I agreed to disagree and figure out what ways that we had some things
02:24in common
02:25and move along, but sometimes if it was too much, it's okay to get off the table and walk away.
02:35My word is my bond.
02:36I do what I say and I say what I do.
02:43Loving honesty.
02:45Somebody that loves me so much to tell me my truth, even if I don't want to hear it.
02:48I don't care.
02:52Amen.
