Mayi de la vega biography
BIOGRAPHY.
Cuban-American real estate powerhouse Mayi de la Vega is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ONE Sotheby's International Realty (ONE SIR).!
From Burger King to CEO: How one woman went from flipping burgers to leading Miami's top brokerage
- As a child in the early 1960s, Mayi de la Vega immigrated from Cuba to South Florida.
- From an early age, she was taught the importance and value of hard work, first through a job at Burger King, then working for her father's aerospace equipment company.
- After leaving her father's business, she worked her way up from her start as a new agent at Coldwell Banker.
- Mayi is now the founder and CEO of Miami's top brokerage, ONE Sotheby's International Realty, which has celebrity clients from Pharrell Williams to David Beckham.
- She says she got to the top — the brokerage's total sales volume totaled $3.2 billion in 2019 — by making "one decision at a time."
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When she was a child in the early 1960s, Mayi de la Vega immigrated from Cuba to Hialeah, Florida, with her father and stepmother.
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