Gustavo Lopez has over 25 years of experience guiding the world's most popular media companies. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Gustavo began his career as a corporate lawyer with White & Case LLP, one of the oldest and most prestigious global law firms. At White & Case, Gustavo handled complex international legal transactions like mergers and acquisitions, cross-border financing arrangements and private placements. In 2002, Gustavo joined the in-house legal team of HBO Latin America where he learned every aspect of the pay TV business. He was then recruited to be the general counsel of the Latin America/US Hispanic division of Discovery Communications, where he led the legal team and served as chief advisor to the president regarding the commercialization of Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, TLC, Animal Planet and other iconic cable channels throughout the region.
In 2013, Gustavo switched to the commercial side and joined AMC Networks as Vice President of Global Distribution, where he spearheaded the launch of the AMC and Sundance cable channels in Latin America. After a successful tenure at AMC, Gustavo joined Ole Communications as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs. At Ole, Gustavo negotiated a wide variety of entertainment contracts, including content licensing agreements with major Hollywood Studios such as Sony Pictures and Universal. He was thereafter promoted to COO of Ole Distribution, the exclusive distributor of the pay TV networks and video-on-demand content owned by A+E Networks, Sony Pictures and NBCUniversal throughout Latin America.
Gustavo is currently the Executive Director of ALIANZA, an entertainment industry association formed by Disney, Warner Brothers Discovery, Globo, Vrio, La Liga and others to protect audiovisual content rights in Latin America. He is also an Emmy-voting member of the Television Academy.
University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD 1998
University of Miami, BA 1995
Native fluency in English and Spanish. Proficient in Portuguese.
Florida
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