NORTHWEST TARRANT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

   

                    

 

MEET OUR MEMBERS

Peter Ho     
Capital One
Market Manager

 

Years with company:  3
Personal business strategy:  Help small businesses and consumers grow through loans and deposits, and to become an active leader in the community.
Business advice to share:   Do the right thing.
First job:  Teller
Hobbies:  Banking, movies, and Fishing, Fishing, Fishing
Role models:  My Mom
Favorite movies:  Office Space, Shrek, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Tommy Boy, all the Star Wars
Favorite restaurant:  Daddy Jack's
People I’d most want to share a meal with:  Jesus Christ, my fiancé, my step daughter, and John F. Kennedy
One person I’d like to meet: Bass Angler Mike Iacconelli
Pet peeve: Being late
First car: 89 Nissan Cressida
Car I drive now: Hyundai Sante Fe
Colleges attended:  University of Texas-Arlington
Favorite place to get away:  any lake, preferrably Lake Fork, the bass capital of the world
Thing I have too much of:  fishing lures
City of birth:  Dodge City, Kansas

Rene’e Kolar    
The Real Estate Associates
Realtor/Investor

 

Years with company:  17
Personal business strategy:  Help buyers and sellers achieve the homeownership dreams!
Business advice to share:   Always work with honesty and integrity!
First job:   Babysitter
Hobbies:  buying and selling real estate, reading, swimming, nature
Role models:  My Mom and my broker Joni
Favorite movies:  Fried Green Tomatoes, Pretty Woman, Urban Cowboy, Grease
Favorite restaurant:  El Paseo
People I’d most want to share a meal with:  my husband, mother, and my best friend
One person I’d like to meet: John Travolta
Pet peeve: Disloyalty
First car: MG midget, green, convertible
Car I drive now: Lincoln Aviator
Colleges attended:  Southwest Texas
Favorite place to get away:  South Padre Island
Thing I have too much of:  clothes
City of birth:  Las Vegas ( my dad was military)
Spouse:  Mike

Rodney Quickle
Store Manager
Wal-Mart Lake Worth

 
Years with company:  13
Personal business strategy: Take care of the customer
Challenges companies will face the next 12 months:
Shrinking
Leadership style:
Hands on
First job:
Mowing lawns (9 years old)
Dream job:
Doing it now
Hobbies: 
Golf
How I know I am successful:
When people who work for me get promoted
Best place to find talented employees:
Drive thru window at fast food restaurants
One thing I'd like to change about myself:
Relinquish control
Favorite movies:
True Grit
Favorite restaurant:
Rain Forrest Cafe
First car:
1969 Mustang Mach I
Car I drive now:
Dodge truck
City of residence: 
Granbury, TX
City of birth:
Bartlesville, OK
Spouse:
Susan
Children:
Joseph (25), Candace (18), and Rene (9)

Margie Rector
Cook Children’s Physician Network-Lake Worth Clinic
Practice Manager


 

 

Company Description:   Pediatric primary care for children from birth to 18 years
Years with Company:
  Nine
Personal Business Strategy:  Never stop learning and always be willing to learn new ideas and methods
Leadership Style:  Teamwork-a manager is only as good as the people they manage.
Worst business decision:  Nothing that I would admit to.
First Job:  Selling office supplies
Dream Job:  Managing a fishing camp
Hobbies:  Geneology and gardening
Favorite Restaurant:  Any restaurant in Lake Worth
Favorite place to get away:  On a pond with fishing pole in hand.

City of Birth:  Macon, Georgia

 

Dr. Julio and Ruth Fajardo
BestHealth Chiropractic
Owners

 

Company Description:  A friendly chiropractic clinic where personalized attention is of greatest importance.  Families are welcome. We also treat auto and work injuries.
Years with Company: Opened September 2005
Personal Business Strategy: To help residents of Lake Worth/Fort Worth/Saginaw area reduce pain levels, improve mobility, and become healthier.
Hobbies: We love to go camping as a family. It allows us to be together, away from ringing phones, just enjoying nature.
Colleges attended: We both attended Brigham Young University for our undergrad degrees. Dr. Fajardo then attended Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon.
Things I have too much of: Daily weed pulling in the vegetable garden!
Children: We have two children, Kalina 6 ˝ and Cedric 4 ˝ and one on the way!