El Paso-Juárez ‘serial entrepreneur’ Ricardo Mora hired as new El Paso Chamber CEO

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El Paso-Juárez ‘serial entrepreneur’ Ricardo Mora hired as new El Paso Chamber CEO

The founder of the Juárez Technology Hub and operator of several businesses on both sides of the ******* States-Mexico border is the new leader of the El Paso Chamber.

Ricardo Mora was chosen to be the new chief executive officer of El Paso’s largest business organizations after a 90-day national search that brought about 300 applicants, chamber officials announced Monday.

He replaces Andrea Hutchins, the first woman to serve as the chamber’s CEO in its 125-year history. She left the job in June because her husband, an Army officer, was transferred out of El Paso.

“Our selection committee was purposeful in finding a CEO who can help develop and capitalize on opportunities of binational near-shoring, tech manufacturing and human capital development. Ricardo doesn’t just fit the bill, he exceeds it,” Elizabeth O’Hara, the chamber’s board chairwoman, said in a statement.

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Ricardo Mora, CEO of the Juarez Technology Hub, speaks at a

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event in El Paso in 2019 as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, middle, and

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President Brad Smith listen.

As co-founder and chief executive officer of the Juárez Technology Hub, Mora has helped oversee

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, aimed at helping manufacturing suppliers on both sides of the border expand their markets. The program

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Mora, who describes himself as a “serial entrepreneur,” has been operating RM International. It’s his El Paso company with subsidiaries in telecommunications and food services in Mexico and the ******* States, according to his biography on the website of the New Mexico State University Arrowhead Center advisory council, of which he is a member. Arrowhead is an economic development organization at NMSU.

He opened two Taco Tote restaurant franchises in the Phoenix area years ago, according to a 2006 El Paso Times story.

Ricardo Mora, new El Paso Chamber CEO.

He was born in El Paso and grew up in Juárez, where his dad worked in a maquiladora and his mom operated a salsa bottling company, according to a 2019 profile in Inc. Magazine.

“I am honored to join the El Paso Chamber and look forward to driving growth and innovation in our business community,” Mora said in a statement.

Besides the Arrowhead Center advisory council, Mora also serves on several other nonprofit organizations’ boards, including Desarrolla Economico Ciudad Juárez, Funax-FabLab Juarez, and the University of Texas at El Paso Development board, according to chamber information.

Mora begins his new job Aug. 19.

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Ricardo Mora, co-founder and CEO of the Juarez Technology Hub, speaks in October 2019 at a

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event in El Paso. From left to right, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott,

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President Brad Smith, then Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral, and Alejandra de la Vega-Foster, then a Chihuahua economic development official, listen.

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