Gustavo Lopez

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Gustavo Lopez has over 25 years of experience guiding the world's most popular media, entertainment and sports organizations.  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 and cross-border financing arrangements.  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.  

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 and sports rights contracts with Hollywood studios (Sony Pictures, Universal, Warner Bros.) and sports leagues (Major League Baseball).  He was thereafter promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ole Distribution, the distributor of A+E Networks, Sony Pictures and NBCUniversal content throughout Latin America.  

Gustavo currently advises several of the largest and most influential media and sports organizations in the world and serves as the Executive Director of ALIANZA, a non-profit association formed by The Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers Discovery, Globo, La Liga and others to protect sports and 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.