JORGE MAS CANOSA
MasTec Inc. 8600 NW 36th St. Miami 33166
(305) 599-1800
Mas is one of the most well known and influential members of Miami's Cuban exile community. He founded the Cuban American National Foundation and is very vocal about future plans for the island once Castro is gone. In the business community, Mas has done well too. Hispanic Business magazine estimates his net worth at about $ 65 million, mainly attributable to his privately-held company, Church & Tower of Florida Inc. It has garnered many lucrative accounts stringing telephone cables for phone companies. His business savvy was underlined, once again, with the recent merger of Burnup and Sims and the Mas family firm into the region's top to telephone cable company. The Mas family received more than $ 50 million in newly issued company stock, making MasTec one of the few Hispanic-owned companies traded on a major. (South Florida Business Journal; April 29, 1994)