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Jordan Gruver, a Panamanian American, was just 16 years old in 2006 when he was severely beaten at a county fair in Kentucky by a group of Klansmen.

13, 2002 Sterling Financial Investment Group, the Boca Raton-based international investment banking company that has risen to meteoric success since being founded in the broom closet of another company's office in 1997 by Panamanian American, Charles Garcia, has been named by Hispanic Business magazine in its annual "Hispanic Business Fastest Growing Top 100" list as the number one fastest growing privately-held Hispanic firm in the United States.

Our fixed income group executes over $5 billion in bonds per month, and this was a logical extension of our business growth," says Charles Patrick Garcia, Sterling Financial's founder and Chairman, a Panamanian American who has earned numerous accolades throughout the Hispanic community domestically and internationally for his company's meteoric rise in the financial services community and its success as a minority owned firm.