Jose Isasi

Jose Isasi
Jose Isasi
Born	August 14, 1944; Havana, Cuba,
Occupation	Chief executive officer
Spouse(s)	Flora Maria Isasi
Children	Jose A. Isasi II, Domingo Isasi, Frederick Isasi, William Isasi
Website	Que Pasa Media Network

José Antonio Isasi (born in Havana, August 14, 1944) is a Cuban-American businessman.

He is the owner of the Que Pasa Media Network,[1] the largest Hispanic Media company in North Carolina, which comprises three newspapers in Charlotte Metro, Raleigh Metro, and Greensboro/Winston-Salem, seven AM radio stations reaching across North Carolina, Makin’ It Work–Pronto!, a Hispanic marketing and communications company serving clients internationally, nationally and regionally, and other related Hispanic businesses located in North Carolina.

Overview and business

Jose Isasi was born in 1944 in Havana, Cuba, and migrated to the US in 1960. Isasi became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1971. In 1965, he married Flora Maria Appel and they had four sons: Jose II, Domingo, Fredrick, and William. Isasi has lived and worked in the US, Cuba, Venezuela, England, Japan, Germany, and Switzerland and has been a resident of North Carolina since 1976. Isasi's company consists of the following components:

Que Pasa radio stations
1000 AM Raleigh
1530 AM Durham–Chapel Hill
1220 AM Reidsville, Greensboro
1590 AM High Point, Winston-Salem
1470 AM Greensboro/Burlington
1380 AM Winston-Salem
1040 AM Winston-Salem/Lexington

Que Pasa newspapers
Winston-Salem / Greensboro edition
Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill edition
Charlotte Metro edition

Community involvement

Member of the Board of Directors of the Forsyth County United Way
Member of the Board of Directors of the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Arts Council
Member of Board of Directors, BB&T Triad Region
Member of the CRA Advisory Group for BB&T Bank–Forsyth County
Founding member of the Board of Forsyth Health, Inc.
Member of Regional Board of the Maya Angelou Institute for Minority Health, Inc.
Member of Board of Directors–Accion Hispana, Forsyth County

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Bachelor of Science in Engineering 1962–1966 University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, –Master of Science in Engineering 1966–1968
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, postgraduate work 1975–1976
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh - executive program, Westinghouse 1981–1982
The Quality College, Crosby & Associates 1988–1989

Patents and publications

Granted two US patents for manufacturing technology with turbine components
Authored / co-authored two technical books
Authored / co-authored 26 technology papers in science and engineering literature
Numerous national and regional keynote presentations
Author / co-author of 11 papers in strategic product and marketing planning

Community and other awards

Salvation Army Excellence in Leadership Award
The Winston-Salem Chronicle Community Service Leadership Award
Hispanic Business Person of the Year for North Carolina Award
North Carolina Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence
Piedmont Triad Technology Gold Award
Japan’s MITI Leadership Award
Benjamin B. Lanme Fellowship Award (the highest award in The Westinghouse Company for outstanding employee achievement)

In the media

Selected as one of fifty national Hispanic media executives who has made significant contributions to the Hispanic community by San Antonio based On The Edge Promotions organization May 2007
Featured on Bill Friday’s North Carolina People, UNC-TV, 2005
Featured on Chris Matthews’ Business Carolina Show, UNC-TV, 2005 and 2006
Named as one of the ‘50 Most Influential People’ in the Triad by Triad Business Journal, December 2004
Named, along with his Que Pasa Media Network, as a ‘Fast 50’ company by Triad Business Journal in 2004
Appeared on the cover and in the main story in the premier edition of the national Marketing y Medios magazine in September 2004
Featured, along with his Que Pasa Newspapers and Radio Stations, in the December 2003 edition of Southern Living magazine
Named by the Triad Business Journal as one of the Ten People To Watch in 2003, 2006
Featured, along with his Hispanic marketing and communications company, Makin' It Work - Pronto!, on the cover and as the feature story in the June 2003 issue of BizLife

References

Jeanne Sturiale (February 25, 2006). "STATION PROGRAMMING HAS A NEW FOCUS ; QUE PASA GOES BEYOND USUAL MEXICAN-MUSIC BROADCASTS". Winston-Salem Journal. p. D1. Retrieved February 5, 2011.

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[1] Jeanne Sturiale (February 25, 2006). "STATION PROGRAMMING HAS A NEW FOCUS ; QUE PASA GOES BEYOND USUAL MEXICAN-MUSIC BROADCASTS". Winston-Salem Journal. p. D1. Retrieved February 5, 2011.