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Henry Cisneros      

Chairman & Co-Founder of American Triple I Partners; Vice Chairman Siebert Williams Shank; Former U.S. HUD Secretary; Former Mayor of San Antonio; Cancer Survivor

Henry Cisneros is chairman and co-founder of American Triple I Partners, an infrastructure investment firm. Cisneros is also currently vice chairman of Siebert Williams Shank.

Formerly, he was executive chairman of CityView, which works with urban builders to create homes priced for average families. CityView is a partner in building more than 7,000 homes in 13 states.

Cisneros was also the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nations public housing developments and with formulating policies that helped achieve the nations highest homeownership rate. Previously Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, founder of Cisneros Asset Management Company, and four-term mayor of San Antonio, among other roles.

He is currently an officer of Habitat for Humanity International and a member of the advisory boards of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Broad Foundation. He is the author or editor of several books, including "Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy" with former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp.

Speech Topics


Speaking Topics Include

  • AN URBAN NATION: HOW INFRASTRUCTURE & SUSTAINABILITY WILL SAFEGUARD AMERICA
  • THE ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
  • AMERICAN LATINOS & THE NATION’S FUTURE

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