Gustavo Lopez Email & Phone Number

Today, Gustavo is the Founder & CEO of ground breaking multifaceted firm Globalatino Music Partners. For over 21 years he worked at Universal Music Group, spearheading the explosion of the company’s Latin growth. Starting at the distribution company as a young executive. he built UMG’s Latin sales force and made pioneering distribution deals with leaders in tropical, salsa, rock en Espanol and pop. Later, he formed Machete Music for UMG and, as Founder and President, established the first ever major-backed Latin urban label, launching the careers of Daddy Yankee, Hector El Father, and Wisin & Yandel, among others. With UMG’s acquisition of Univision Music Group, he was named the President of Fonovisa Records and Disa Records, the biggest and most important regional Mexican music labels in the world, and worked with a roster of top artists which included Los Tigres Del Norte, Marco Antonio Solis, Banda El Recodo, Jenny Rivera and Los Angeles Azules, to name a few. For his next move, he left UMG to create Talento Uno Music—which would be acquired by entertainment mogul and phillanthropist Haim Saban. Saban then appointed him CEO of Saban Music Group where he spent five years building and leading the company before being acquired by Virgin Music, a division of UMG.

Listed skills include Entertainment, Music Industry, Music, Digital Media, and 26 others.

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  California State University, Northridge

  Business Administration