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

NALA Films

NALA Films is a film production and financing company, the production arm of .-Foundation:NALA Films, LLC was founded in 2005 by Emilio Diez Barroso , as the production arm of NALA Investments , an investment vehicle with a portfolio of holdings...

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Biography

Emilio Diez Barroso of the Azcárraga family

Azcárraga family

The Azcárraga family is a wealthy Mexican media dynasty. The center of their business empire, Televisa, is the main television network in Mexico and the largest producer and broadcaster of Spanish language media around the world.Notable family members include:...

is part of the Mexican Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

 dynasty and is the great-grandson to Televisa founder Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta

Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta

Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta or Emilio Azcárraga Sr. was a Mexican businessman son of Basque immigrants Mariano Azcárraga and Emilia Vidaurreta....

. He studied Economics and Finance at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, I.T.A.M.

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México , commonly known as ITAM, is a private Ph.D.-granting research university located in Mexico City, Mexico...

 and Boston Universities

Boston University

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 before becoming Managing Director for Corporacion Triangulo, an investment corporation headquartered in Mexico

Mexico

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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 and by The Hollywood Reporter and currently sits on the board of directors of Summit Entertainment

Summit Entertainment

Summit Entertainment LLC is an independent film studio headquartered in Santa Monica, California with international offices in London.-History:...

 ("a worldwide theatrical motion picture production and distribution studio") of Mentor LA a non-profit organization working to improve schools and empower neighborhoods in some of the most disenfranchised communities in Los Angeles, and of Volaris the fastest growing Mexican Airline as well as of three other Latin America

Latin America

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n companies". Emilio also has a masters in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasis on Consciousness Health and Healing from The University of Santa Monica
NALA Investments=
In 1999, Emilio Diez Barroso founded NALA Investments, LLC, and is currently its Chairman.
NALA ("North America Latin America") 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.

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.

NALA Films

In 2005, 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

Los Ángeles

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. NALA Films' "has been producing and financing "two to five feature films per year."

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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