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...floors have been transformed by 19 architecture studios from 13 countries. Each level showcases a different avant-garde interior-design concept, from Zaha Hadid's sinuous lines and fluid spaces on the first floor to an exercise in geometry and light by London-based Plasma Studio's Eva Castro and Holger Kehne on the fourth. Other designs include Teresa Sapey's colorful parking garage, Christian Liaigre's Latin-inspired restaurant, Marc Newson's glass-enclosed cocktail bar and an oasis-like garden by Harriet Bourne and Jonathan Bell...
...NAME: Laura Castro de Cortes COMPANY: Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha TITLE: Vice president and director of Latino banking...
...Laura Castro de Cortes doesn't deny that her ethnicity and background-she is a Mexican-American who was born in the U.S. but raised in a Mexican border town-helped her to segue from years of working in nonprofits and education to a career as a consultant on Latino marketing...
...also felt the need to prove that Latino marketing was a worthwhile pursuit. "It was hard to prove my case and point. There was no past history" at the bank of targeting Hispanic customers, she says. Castro de Cortes made her case by talking about potential profits to be made from the growing Latino market. "All of a sudden, things changed," she says. "They saw what my area of expertise could do for them. I had the numbers and the potential money to be made. That always, always did the trick...
...Castro de Cortes' department was eliminated after the bank was acquired by another bank. She is leaving her job in December, and hoping to land a similar job at another bank soon...