Fernando Medin

Currently based between Sao Paulo and Miami, Medin is responsible for the company’s commercial, editorial and operational units which includes sales, affiliate relations, pay-TV distribution, advertising sales, content, programming and production, digital media, research, marketing, communications, operations and information technology (IT), as well as and new business opportunities for DLA/USH’s 12 entertainment brands in the region*. Recently he also worked in projects involving Asia-Pacific (2015) and Europe (2016).

Medin joined Discovery Communications in 2002 and later promoted to vice president of then DLA/Iberia’s legal department, serving as a trusted advisor in the company’s distribution negotiations and its management of regulatory and public affairs in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. He also played a key role in establishing the company’s subsidiaries in Spain, Mexico and Brazil.