required a lot of travel so he gathered his family and let them decide where they should relocate. “They picked La Jolla.” The family did move to the San Diego County city in California and Nassif stayed in that position for six years. His bona fides as a businessman were well developed, but he said it was a period in which he had to travel too much, spending too much time away from his family. Next on the professional bucket list was work in the immigration environment. From 1994 until he joined Western Growers in 2002, Nassif worked as a consultant on border crossing issues helping to develop the Calexico East Point of Entry. “We built the border crossing from scratch,” he said. The actual crossing was built in 1996. As the work was winding down, Nassif was just starting his own consulting firm when Western Growers came calling. A Final Career Stop In 2001, longtime Western Growers Board Member the late Jon Vessey asked his friend Tom Nassif if he would interview for the top staff position at the organization. Nassif was not that interested. He liked
Tom and Zinetta Nassif with former U.S. President GeorgeW. Bush
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