Jorge Mas

Male

Hispanic

MasTec's 2026 proxy statement lists Jorge Mas's "Race/Ethnicity" as Hispanic in its director-nominee summary; this is a company self-report field, not a census category.

Cuban-American. Born in Miami to Jorge Mas Canosa, a Cuban exile who fled to the United States in 1960, and Irma Santos.

Second generation. Born in Miami in 1963, the son of a Cuban immigrant father; not an immigrant himself.

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Not established in sources reviewed.

Likely Spanish, given a Cuban-exile father and a Miami upbringing steeped in exile politics, though this is inferred rather than directly documented.

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MasTec's proxy lists him as a continuous employee of the company or its predecessor since 1979.

No documented housing precarity at any point. His father's company was generating roughly $40 million a year by 1980, when Jorge was seventeen.

Employed by his father's company continuously from 1979 onward, per MasTec's own proxy disclosure. There is no record of him ever needing an income floor outside the family business.

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No documented debt of any kind, including education debt, in sources reviewed.

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No documented homelessness, job loss, or comparable instability at any stage.

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No period of visible poverty, chosen or imposed, appears anywhere in the record reviewed.

Father Jorge Mas Canosa owned and ran a telecommunications infrastructure contractor (Church & Tower, later MasTec) and chaired the Cuban American National Foundation from 1981 until his 1997 death. Mother Irma Santos's occupation is not established in sources reviewed.

A parent worked for themselves, the strongest known predictor of founding.

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Not established in sources reviewed.

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At least three siblings are named in MasTec's SEC filings: José Ramon Mas (the company's CEO), Juan Carlos Mas, and Patricia Mas. There may be others not named in the filings reviewed.

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Inferred from ages given in the 2026 proxy statement — Jorge is listed as 63 and José as 54 — not from any direct statement of birth order.

His father's political network, built through the Cuban American National Foundation, connected the family to sitting U.S. administrations' Cuba policy from the early 1980s on.

Jorge Mas Canosa was one of the most nationally recognized Cuban-exile political and business figures in the country, with a net worth estimated above $100 million at his 1997 death. That gave his son a known family name and standing access to political and business rooms well before he'd accomplished anything of his own.

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No documented sacrifice or side income aimed at funding his schooling; a comfortably resourced household paid for it without apparent strain.

Miami, Florida. No specific neighborhood documented.

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His K-12 schooling isn't documented in sources reviewed; only his University of Miami degrees are.

Grew up around his father's own telecommunications-construction business in Miami, the same industry he would later run.

His father owned the company. MasTec's proxy lists Jorge as an employee of the company or its predecessor since 1979, around age sixteen — as direct a form of workplace access as exists.

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No documented incident of bias against him personally in sources reviewed.

Miami's Cuban-exile business and political community, organized in large part around his father's Cuban American National Foundation, supplied contacts and credibility well beyond what the family's income alone would have provided.

His father, who owned the company outright, brought him on as an employee starting in 1979.

Church & Tower / MasTec — his father's own company, which he joined as a teenager and was running as president and CEO by age thirty-one.

Capital, Credibility, Network

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Based on the proxy statement's 1979 employment start date and a February 1963 birth date; the proxy doesn't describe what his role was at that age.

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His entire documented career has been at Church & Tower/MasTec, aside from co-founding Neff Corporation as a separate venture alongside it.

MBA, University of Miami, 1985; BBA, University of Miami, 1984.

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No documented education debt.

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MasTec's proxy places his employment start in 1979, five years before his 1984 undergraduate degree, which suggests some overlap, but the filing doesn't describe his hours or role during school.

Direct — a local university, undergraduate straight into a graduate degree, no detour.

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No specific first-dollar event is documented; his working life began inside an already-operating family company.

Leadership and, over time, substantial equity in an already-valuable family company. He was named president and CEO of MasTec at its 1994 formation. Today he holds roughly 15% of MasTec's shares through a mix of direct ownership, family trusts, and holding companies, per the 2026 proxy statement's beneficial-ownership table.

His father's estate isn't itemized in sources reviewed, so the precise mechanics of how Jorge's current MasTec stake was built up over three decades — versus what, if anything, passed directly from his father's 1997 estate — aren't fully documented. This is coded as inherited capital because he stepped into leadership of an already-built, family-owned, revenue-generating company rather than starting one, not because a specific bequest amount is on record.

Judgment call, flagged per the file's coding notes.

MasTec is a public company (NYSE: MTZ) with no dual-class share structure; institutional holders BlackRock and Vanguard each own more than 6% of the stock. Jorge and José Mas together hold about 21% of shares outstanding as a family group, with Jorge individually at 15%, giving them influence through board tenure and a large minority stake rather than through weighted voting control.

Neff Corporation, his co-founded equipment-rental venture, sold in 2005 for a reported $510 million; his personal share and what he did with the proceeds aren't disclosed in sources reviewed.

MasTec itself owns the equipment, crews, and fleets that make it an infrastructure contractor; Jorge also co-founded Neff Corporation, a separate construction- and utility-equipment rental business, in 1990.

Family business — he joined and eventually ran the company his father built rather than starting from an independent idea.

No dual-class voting structure exists at MasTec. The family's influence runs through Jorge's chairmanship since 1998, his brother's CEO role since 2007, and a combined ~21% economic stake, not through any share class carrying extra votes.

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No documented failed venture. He moved from family employee to CEO of an existing, already-substantial company at thirty-one, and separately co-founded the successful Neff Corporation.

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Age at MasTec's March 1994 formation, when he became president and CEO, based on a February 1963 birth date.

MasTec grew through the 1990s-2000s wireless and cable build-out and, later, the 2010s-2020s expansion of renewable-energy and utility infrastructure spending — favorable multi-decade conditions for an infrastructure-construction contractor.

Miami/Coral Gables, Florida, where the company was and still is headquartered.

Neither built from nothing nor bought as an outsider — he inherited operating leadership of an existing family company at the moment it went public.

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From MasTec's 1994 formation to the 2026 proxy statement, with no break in his involvement.

Infrastructure engineering and construction services, serving telecommunications, energy, and utility markets.

3400000000

Forbes real-time tracker figure as of September 20, 2026, based primarily on his disclosed MasTec shareholding.

Public equity

Most of the figure traces to his disclosed 15% MasTec stake (a publicly traded NYSE company), which can be checked against the company's market capitalization, rather than to a private-company estimate.

2026

6222606

Sum of his disclosed 2025 compensation from the 2026 proxy statement: a $1,350,000 cash bonus, restricted stock valued at approximately $4,800,000, and smaller benefits (split-dollar life insurance imputed income, medical, disability, auto lease). This is his most recently disclosed figure, not necessarily his lifetime peak — earlier years' comparable detail wasn't reviewed.

Proxy statement

Mostly a paper stake in publicly traded MasTec stock. Part of it has been used as collateral: MasTec's 2026 proxy discloses a prepaid variable forward sale contract and a separate loan arrangement under which Jorge Mas has pledged shares, mechanisms that let him access liquidity against the position without selling it outright.

His wealth is almost entirely an appreciating ownership stake in a public company; his income is separate cash and stock compensation set by MasTec's compensation committee for his active, non-policymaking role.

Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation; managing owner of Inter Miami CF, which signed Lionel Messi in July 2023; named among the 100 most influential Hispanics in the U.S. by Latino Leaders Magazine; past recipient of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's National Community Service Award and the Bravura Award.

Uncapped

The SEC opened a formal investigation into MasTec's restatement of its 2001-2003 financial statements. In a February 21, 2008 letter, SEC staff notified the company the investigation was complete and that it did not intend to recommend enforcement action.

Company-level regulatory matter during Jorge Mas's tenure as chairman; the letter is addressed to MasTec, not to him individually.

A securities fraud class action (S.D. Fla., No. 04-cv-20886) named MasTec along with Jorge Mas and other officers and directors, alleging the company had fraudulently recorded revenue at its PhaseCom subsidiary and on construction change orders to meet analyst expectations in 2003, following a restatement the company attributed to "intentional overstatements of revenues, inventories, and work in progress." The case settled for $10 million in cash in 2006, with the court's final order treating the matter as closed; it did not include a finding of liability against any individual defendant.

Source is a plaintiffs'-firm case summary; the case number, filing allegations, and settlement figure are consistent with the underlying court record described. Rendered as reported allegations and a settlement, not as an established finding of fraud.

During

The restatement and litigation (2003-2006) fell within his tenure running and then chairing MasTec, not before it or after he'd left.

Incidental

A subsidiary accounting issue, not what produced his ownership stake or his family's control of the company.

Fine absorbed

The $10 million settlement was paid by the company; no personal liability, fine, or admission by Jorge Mas is documented, and the SEC recommended no enforcement action.

Influential, Well connected, civically engaged

Drawn from MasTec's own proxy bio (Latino Leaders Magazine recognition, Wiesenthal and Bravura awards) — a company-authored account, not independent press characterization.

Public

Before

His standing as a prominent Miami businessman predates the Inter Miami/Messi chapter that made him more broadly known outside business and Cuban-American political circles.

Mixed

An asset in fundraising, government relations, and sports-ownership circles for most of his career; the 2003-2008 restatement and litigation period was a documented liability moment, resolved without personal consequence.

The reputation was deliberately built, through books, press, and PR.

Active civic and philanthropic profile through the Cuban American National Foundation and industry award circuits.

The SEC's 2008 letter closing its investigation without recommending enforcement action functioned as a clean resolution; no lasting reputational damage from the 2003-2006 restatement and litigation is evident in later coverage reviewed.