Univision confirms the new president and executives of the chain | The State

Today, Monday, January 11, Univision made official the information that we anticipated last October: the name of its new president, and new executive positions were created and new managers were hired.

As we anticipate, Luis Silberwasser, was designated as president of the group of television networks Univision to run Univision’s national television properties.

Silberwasser’s position was not the only one announced this afternoon. The new owners, who, as we told you, completed the transfer and took control the last week of December, created new executive positions, and assigned them to people of great weight within the industry, who, for the most part, come from outside the chain.

Who and what will they do?.. With Wade davis At the head, as the CEO of the group, the following positions were assigned that we describe below:

–Pierluigi gazzolo, appointed to the newly created position of President of Univision Communications Inc. and Chief Transformation Officer to drive the next era of growth.
–Luis Silberwasser, president of the Univision group of television networks to run Univision’s national television properties.
–Donna speciale, named president of advertising sales and marketing, to drive the innovative expansion of Univision’s offering to advertisers.
–Friday abernethy, promoted to Executive Vice President of Content Distribution and Partnerships.
–Adam Shippee, promoted to the newly created role of Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Strategy
and transformation.
–Amy tenbrink, ascends to Executive Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Revenue / Business Development with responsibilities across the digital business.

What will happen to the current executives?… So far they have been reconfirmed in their positions, but they will have to report for what will be their new boss: Luis Silberwasser.

That is to say, Daniel Coronell will remain president of News; David rabinowitz, executive vice president of broadcast technology and operations; Jessica Rodriguez, president of entertainment and CMO; and Juan Carlos Rodriguez, president of sports, reporting directly to Silberwasser.

Although the leader, after Davis, will be Gazzolo, in practice, who will be the head and the executor of what you will see, of the stars that will accompany you every day, of fiction, sports and the news, it will be Luis Silberwasser, something that we anticipated in October, and that later came out to deny it, but that finally time gave us the reason that we had the correct information.

¿Who is Luis Silberwasser, president of the Univision television group?

He was president of Telemundo for 4 years, in which he was in charge of not only creating content, but also the first World cup accessed by that string. One of the most critical moments in his administration was the unionization of the soap opera actors with SAG-AFTRA. Well, at that moment, a message came to light inviting the actors to vote for the “no” entry of the union.

He is 56 years old, was born in New York, but at the age of 5 he moved, along with his parents, to Cali, Colombia, where he grew up until he decided to return to the United States to study. He first graduated with a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the University of Georgia, followed by a graduate degree in business from Harvard.

He went through some audiovisual companies like Discovery. He came to Telemundo in 2014 as president of the Network, where he was in charge of the network, and specialized in entertainment content strategy, since that area would not only be his specialty, but also his passion, along with sports.

Will these new appointments generate changes in what you see on a daily basis in your programming? Although we cannot confirm it officially, there would be changes and many. The digital part and entertainment would be given greater strength.

Will all executives be reconfirmed in their positions? Quite possibly several of them will finish their tasks when their contracts expire.