TelevisaUnivision Announces CFO Transition
2024年7月31日 - 9:30PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Carlos Ferreiro to Step Down; Juan Pablo Newman
to be Appointed Interim CFO
TelevisaUnivision, Inc., the world's leading Spanish-language
media and content company, today announced that Carlos Ferreiro
will be stepping down from his role as Chief Financial Officer for
health reasons. Juan Pablo Newman, Chief Growth Officer of
TelevisaUnivision Mexico, has been appointed Interim CFO, effective
September 1, 2024. Ferreiro will stay with the company in an
advisory role and will ensure a smooth transition.
A veteran finance executive, Ferreiro has served as CFO of
TelevisaUnivision since October 2021, overseeing all areas of the
company’s global finance organization, including corporate finance,
treasury, risk management, investor relations, financial planning
and analysis, audit, tax, procurement, real estate and corporate
business development. Prior to this role, Ferreiro held various
leadership positions at Grupo Televisa for over 20 years.
“On behalf of the board of directors, the entire management team
and the stockholders of the Company, I want to thank Carlos for his
immeasurable commitment, counsel, contributions, and leadership
over the years, especially during the complex TelevisaUnivision
transaction in 2021 that made us the definitive global leader in
Spanish-language media,” commented Alfonso de Angoitia, Executive
Chairman of TelevisaUnivision, Inc.
Wade Davis, CEO of TelevisaUnivision, added, “The leadership,
expertise and commitment that Carlos demonstrated over these
formative years for TelevisaUnivision have been invaluable. We are
grateful to him for his many contributions that have helped propel
the company to where we are today.”
“It has been the highlight of my career to have served as the
first CFO of TelevisaUnivision as we have accomplished so much and
built a world-class organization that is equipped to compete in the
global media landscape,” said Ferreiro.
Davis continued, “Juan Pablo has extensive experience as a CFO
managing and scaling financial operations in both the private and
public sectors spanning a highly successful 20-year career prior to
TelevisaUnivision. Currently, he is already deeply integrated into
our global business operations, and I am confident that his
knowledge of our business and skillsets will allow him to hit the
ground running and effect a seamless transition.”
About Juan Pablo Newman Aguilar
As Chief Growth Officer of TelevisaUnivision Mexico, Juan Pablo
Newman Aguilar oversees all domestic ad sales, marketing and
commercial operations of national and local free-to-air TV, pay TV,
digital O&O and streaming in the country. He works alongside
cross-functional teams, including production, programming,
research, and information technologies, integrating ad sales and
content.
Before joining TelevisaUnivision, he served as CEO of Afore
XXI-Banorte, the largest pension fund in Latin America. Prior to
this, Newman Aguilar was the Head of the Public Credit Unit at the
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) of Mexico, overseeing
national internal and external debt. Newman Aguilar also served as
CFO of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico’s state-owned oil
company, where he successfully implemented an energy reform that
stabilized the credit rating of the company and executed the
company’s first oil hedging program.
Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Investment Officer and
Treasury of Nacional Financiera (NAFIN), Mexico’s biggest
development bank. Newman Aguilar holds a Bachelor of Science Degree
in Applied Mathematics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de
México (ITAM) and received his master’s degree in Operational
Research from the London School of Economics and Political
Science.
About TelevisaUnivision, Inc.
TelevisaUnivision is the world’s leading Spanish-language media
company. Powered by the largest library of owned Spanish-language
content and a prolific production capability, TelevisaUnivision is
the top producer of original content in Spanish across news, sports
and entertainment verticals. This original content powers all of
TelevisaUnivision’s platforms, which include market-leading
broadcast networks Univision, Las Estrellas, Canal 5 and UniMas,
and a portfolio of 38 cable networks, which include TUDN,
Galavision, Distrito Comedia and TL Novelas. The Company also
operates the leading Mexican movie studio, Videocine, and owns and
operates the largest Spanish-language audio platform in the U.S.
across 35 terrestrial stations and the Uforia digital platform.
TelevisaUnivision is also the owner of ViX, the largest
Spanish-language streaming platform in the world. For more
information, please visit televisaunivision.com.
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Betsy Frank, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations
bmillerfrank@televisaunivision.com
Alyssa Bernstein, Senior Vice President of Corporate
Communications abernstein@televisaunivision.com