Albert Chavez is the Chief Financial Officer of United Ways of California. Previously Mr. Chavez served as CFO and Senior Vice President for KCETLink. He also managed the financial and administrative functions of an institutional investment manager (Lombardia Capital Partners) through a period of growth from $800 million to $1.7 billion in assets under management. In addition Mr. Chavez launched a digital television channel (SiTV) with a cross-functional team that within 59 days of closing on start-up financing had set up the necessary infrastructure and shot enough original programming to launch the 24/7 channel in over ten millions homes in the US. As the co-founder of El Dorado Communications, he boot-strapped the launch of a group of top-ten-market radio stations buying and restructuring under-performing properties while improving operations. He headed up an event of liquidity for the company earning its private equity backers 25% annual returns over four to six years. Mr. Chavez also worked with Deloitte in Los Angeles for three years where he earned his CPA.

Mr. Chavez holds a BA in Mathematics and History from the University of Texas, El Paso and earned an MBA in Finance from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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