{"id":184,"date":"2009-10-15T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slava-slavik.net\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T21:30:03","slug":"portraits-of-ralph-de-la-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/2009\/portraits-of-ralph-de-la-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of Ralph de la Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This portrait photo shoot with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/investor-relations?pid=9812\"  target=\"_blank\">Ralph de la Vega<\/a>, president and CEO of AT&#038;T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was one of our top assignments in 2009. We photographed for the cover and featured story in Latino Leaders magazine. The shoot took place in his conference room, a hallway, and training showroom at AT&#038;T Mobility headquarters in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine feature introduced his new book \u201cObstacles Welcome \u2013 Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life.\u201d As we learned during a brief talk at the shoot, his life and achievements are really inspiring. Mr. de la Vega came to the US when he was 10. His parents were denied departure by Cuban authorities and the wait for the proper documents enabling them to join him took astonishing four years. Tough start, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>That evening, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Obstacles-Welcome-Adversity-Advantage-Business\/dp\/1595552642\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered his book on Amazon<\/a>. It is an exciting story about how a Cuban immigrant reached the heights of American business. We found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3tPumDVVP5k\" target=\"_blank\">extended interview<\/a> on YouTube where he talks about his remarkable journey and his personal and business principles. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/09-i\/latino-leaders-with-ralph-de-la-vega.jpg\" title=\"Ralph de la Vega in Latino Leaders\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"543\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/09-i\/latino-leaders-with-ralph-de-la-vega-toc.jpg\" title=\"Latino Leaders\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/09-i\/ralph-de-la-vega.jpg\" title=\"Ralph de la Vega\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/09-i\/latino-leaders-with-ralph-de-la-vega-page-a.jpg\" title=\"Ralph de la Vega\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/09-i\/latino-leaders-with-ralph-de-la-vega-page-b.jpg\" title=\"Ralph de la Vega\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This portrait photo shoot with Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&#038;T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was one of our top assignments in 2009. We photographed for the cover and featured story in Latino Leaders magazine. The shoot took place in his conference room, a hallway, and training showroom at AT&#038;T Mobility headquarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[12,14,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarah-slavik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}