Skip to main navigation

Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 winner - Real Estate, Construction and Lodging category - Ernst & Young - United States

Jose R. Mas

CEO
MasTec, Inc.

We know where the jobs are

 

New Global IPO Center of Excellence

New Global IPO Center of Excellence

 

Center-for-Entrepreneurship-and-innovation


 

Conversations with Entrepreneurs

 
 
  • Share

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Real Estate, Construction and Lodging

Jose Mas, CEO of MasTec, spent his summers digging trenches for his father’s contracting firm, which later became MasTec. This work taught him how important the workers were to the company’s success, and how deeply they depended on it. By 1999, MasTec had become the largest Hispanic-owned business in the US. When the dot-com bubble burst, however, funding for many of its clients’ projects disappeared. MasTec had to cancel many of its own projects and reduce its workforce by 40%. Since Mas took over as CEO, the company’s total revenues have increased by 130%.

photo of winner


Coral Gables, FL
Founded 1929

 

acceptance speech video

 

profiles of category nominees

Learn more

National Program contacts

Bryan Pearce Bryan Pearce
Americas Director,
Entrepreneur Of The Year
+1 617 585 0499

 

Wendy FoxWendy Fox
Americas Program Manager,
Entrepreneur Of The Year
+1 612 371 6703

 

Founded and produced by

Ernst & Young logo 

Nationally sponsored by
 

SAP-sponsor-logo 
The kauffman Foundation logo 

Exceptional-magazine-special-edition 


Exceptional
magazine:
July–December 2012

Exceptional-magazine-July-2012
Read about corporate pace setters W.L Gore, IntercontinentalExchange, the Gilt Groupe and others through the personal reflections and winning strategies of their leaders in our semi-annual magazine.

 

 

Winning Women
2012 Entrepreneurial Winning Women

Read our new report to see how the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program is spurring dramatic growth for participants.


 

Back to top