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Mr. Casimiro was named by Houston Mayor Lee P. Brown to the Mayoral Advisory Board for International Affairs and Development of Latin America and serves as Chairman of the Hispanic Advisory Board of MetroBank. He is the former Vice Chairman, Networking, of the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce. He is also the past Chairman of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Policy Committee (political action committee) whose goal was seeing the City of Houston and the Houston/Harris County Sports Authority fulfill its promise of allocating 30% of all its contract work to minority construction businesses.

While residing in New York, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Heights New York Lions Club and Public Relations Committee Chairman for the Latin Chamber of Commerce of New York.

Jorge Luis Casimiro was born in Cuba and immigrated to the United States in 1962, and received his United States Citizenship immediately following his arrival. He attended Fordham University. He resides in Houston, Texas, with his wife Sonia and five children.