Emilio Diez Barroso is Co-Chairman and Founder of NALA Investments, LLC a private investment holding company, and founder and CEO of one of its subsidiaries: NALA Films.
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Emilio Diez Barroso of the Azcárraga family is part of the Mexican Televisa dynasty and is the great-grandson to Televisa founder Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta. He studied Economics and Finance at Harvard University, I.T.A.M. and Boston Universities before becoming Managing Director for Corporacion Triangulo, an investment corporation headquartered in Mexico.
Diez Barroso has held senior level positions and sat on the board of most NALA owned companies. He was named one of the 10 most powerful Latinos in 2009 by Poder Magazine [1] and by The Hollywood Reporter[2].
He currently sits on the board of directors of Summit Entertainment, LLC, a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio; he is on the board of Saber Es Poder, the leading provider of comprehensive and practical educational solutions for Spanish-dominant Latinos in the United States and he chairs the board of The World is Just a Book Away, a non-profit organization created to bring books and education to children in developing countries.
Emilio studied Economics and Finance at Harvard, I.T.A.M. and Boston University and has an M.A. in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with an emphasis on Consciousness Health and Healing.
In 1999, Emilio Diez Barroso founded NALA Investments, LLC, and is currently its Chairman. NALA ("North America Latin America"[3]) Investments is a private investment holding company with operations across various industries including communications, energy, transportation, consumer products, real estate, IT infrastructure, entertainment and media. The company manages a diverse portfolio of multiple investment asset classes primarily in the United States and Latin America.[4]
Over the past ten years, NALA has leveraged its US/Mexico home base and extensive network of affiliations in Latin America to provide effective value added to its portfolio companies. This unique cross-border position, anchored by the local branch offices, gives NALA preferred access to some of the most attractive venture investments in the area. Its extensive business and political relationships provide NALA's portfolio companies with powerful, direct resource interaction in an often unwelcoming environment for foreign endeavors.
In 2005,[5] Diez Barroso founded NALA Investments' production arm, NALA Films, a "film development, production and financing company that leverages Latin American talent, resources and incentives to efficiently produce English language motion pictures and facilitate their worldwide distribution," based in Los Angeles.[6] NALA Films' "has been producing and financing "two to five feature films per year."[4]
Emilio Diez Barroso's family "created the two largest Spanish-language media companies in the world, Televisa (NYSE:TV) and Univision (NYSE:UVN)"
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