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Raul Vazquez // Vice President, Production Operations
Raul Vazquez is Star Tribune’s vice president of production operations. Raul is responsible for directing and overseeing all printing and manufacturing operations at our Heritage production facility.
Prior to joining the Star Tribune in 2014, Raul worked for The St. Paul Pioneer Press for 13 years in operations management, where he assumed all the newspaper packaging responsibilities at their manufacturing facility and received a company-wide excellence recognition award for his leadership role. During the last 8 years at the Star Tribune, he has completed a mini MBA program from the University of Minnesota. He has also participated in the Leadership Twin Cities program run by the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce and has assumed increasing responsibilities at our world-class manufacturing facility.
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