Juan Pablo Newman is Chief Financial Officer at TelevisaUnivision, the world’s leading Spanish-language media company. Previously, he was Chief Growth Officer of TelevisaUnivision Mexico, where he oversaw all domestic ad sales, marketing and commercial operations of national and local free-to-air TV, pay TV, digital O&O and streaming in the country.

Newman has a proven track record of managing and scaling financial operations in both the private and public sectors during his illustrious 20-year career. Before joining TelevisaUnivision, he served as CEO of Afore XXI-Banorte, the largest pension fund in Latin America. Prior to this, Newman Aguilar was the Head of the Public Credit Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) of Mexico, overseeing national internal and external debt. Newman Aguilar also served as CFO of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico’s state-owned oil company, where he successfully implemented an energy reform that stabilized the credit rating of the company and executed the company’s first oil hedging program.

Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Investment Officer and Treasury of Nacional Financiera (NAFIN), Mexico’s biggest development bank. Newman Aguilar holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and received his master’s degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science.