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34 February 2017
Vice President, Relationship
Manager in Commercial Banking,
Associated Bank
Jose Prado is a Mexican-Ame-
rican Banker currently working
in relationship management in
commercial banking at Associa-
ted Bank. He is responsible for
the growth and development of
the commercial banking portfo-
lio and market share to ensure
retention of total client assets
and growth in relationships.
Raised in a rough neighbor-
hood in Nuevo Laredo, Tamau-
lipas, Mexico, Prado quickly
learned that the only way to be
successful in life was by working
hard and getting rewarded for it
so he started working a full-time
job as a bag-boy at the local So-
riana grocery store when he was
just 8 years old. Prado worked
at Soriana for six years, until his
family decided to take a vacation
to Chicago, where they later de-
cided to start a new life in search
of the American Dream.
Prado's early work in the Uni-
ted States was in the restaurant
business, washing dishes and,
later, waiting tables. It was one
of Prado's restaurant customers
who offered him a job as a teller
at Washington Mutual Bank.
After a few years of hard work,
Prado quickly moved up in the
corporate ladder, working as a
teller, personal banker, business
banker, assistant vice president,
and now as a vice president. Pra-
do attributes his success to the
support of his wife, family and a
couple of good bosses who be-
lieved in him and supported him
in every way possible.
Prado currently serves on the
board of directors for the Little
Village Chamber of Commerce
and Centro Romero.
Jose Prado, 33
A ladder-climbing banker
"I
f you can't fly, then run,
If you can't run, then walk,
If you can't walk, then crawl,
but whatever you do,
you have to keep moving forward."
Martin Luther King Jr.
