by: Cora Berg (Hispanic Executive)
Pete Delgado began working at nine years old. His father owned a trash hauling company, and young Delgado’s duties included not just mopping and sweeping, but also acting as an interpreter, delivering invoices, and picking up checks. He so enjoyed the hospitals on his father’s client list that after serving in the military, he completed a degree in hospital management then reached out to the hometown hospital chief executive officer he had presented invoices to as a kid to ask for an internship. “He rolled out the red carpet for me,” Delgado says.
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