FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS ASSOCIATES - Key Persons

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• Meet Our Managing Director

Mr. Gonzalez-Soldevilla has lived in Miami, Florida since 1961. He was born in Cuba, but his parents chose to send him away from the Castro revolution to grow up free and live in liberty, away from the toxicity of social and economic upheavals engendered by a revolution. He was twelve years old when he joined the endless string of political exiles fleeing the Castro dictatorship through the years since 1959. A few years later, Frank finished high school at Southwest Miami Senior High. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Miami, where he majored in French and Spanish language and literature. Upon graduation he enrolled in UM's graduate school, seeking a Master's in French, as he married and formed a family of four children. Years later, he graduated from Florida International University with a Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies in 1996. Along the years, Frank taught foreign languages in three different public schools. Right after college, he taught at Palmetto Jr. High School where he remained until his first child was born in 1972. In all, he completed a total of ten years teaching. He returned to the classroom at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School in 1989 and in 1992 he went to MAST Academy; this took place while he observed a contractual clause related to the sale of a business. During this time, he also taught as adjunct professor at Miami-Dade College in the Wolfson, Kendall, and Inter-American Campuses. In the financial industry, Frank has been assisting individuals, their families, and their businesses over three decades. From 1972 through 1989, he worked exclusively in the insurance and investments side of the financial services industry. He sold the firm he established in 1980 providing a wide array of financial products and services largely to physicians, attorneys, and other similarly-structured, closely-held small businesses in the South Florida area; it was this sale in 1989 that allowed him the time to complete his cycle in the academic world.