Univision Communications Inc. Names Diego Rodriguez as Chief Global Security Officer

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America, today announced that Diego Rodriguez has been named to the newly-created position of Chief Global Security Officer. Rodriguez, who most recently served as Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Office in New York, will be based at UCI's corporate headquarters in New York and report directly to Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer.

In this new role, Rodriguez will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating enterprise-wide security efforts to ensure that the company has best-in-class practices in place to safeguard the Company, its people and its critical assets. He will develop and implement a global strategy that has the flexibility to adjust to rapid change in business, technology and information flow. He will work closely with UCI's entire senior leadership team, including Margaret Lazo, Chief HUMAN RESOURCES Officer, to whom he also will report.

"With more than 26 years of high-level security experience at the FBI, Diego's ability to assess potential threats, mitigate risk and help ensure continuity of operations make him a vital addition to Univision's executive team," said Schwartz. "Diego is a proven leader who brings a unique skill set to the company and who will have important insights on critical security, technology, information and safety issues."

Rodriguez added, "I am looking forward to this new opportunity at Univision, where I will be able to LEVERAGE my past experience to work to protect the Company, its people and its critical assets from emerging security threats. Preparation, collaboration and communication will be key to UCI's security strategy, and I look forward to working with Jonathan, Margaret and the entire Univision team to establish a first-rate global security program."

Rodriguez will join UCI from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), where he served in various capacities from 1990 to 2016. He most recently served as the head of the FBI's New York Field Office, where he supervised more than 2,200 FBI agents and professional support personnel who seek to guard against terrorist incidents and the intelligence efforts of foreign governments and nationals, and who investigate and seek to prevent a wide array of federal crimes. Earlier in his impressive FBI career, Diego was stationed in Miami, Puerto Rico, Dallas and Washington, D.C. In 2015, Rodriguez received the President Rank Award for Meritorious Executive. Rodriguez is fluent in Spanish and received his M.S. in Education and a B.S. in Athletic Administration from St. John's University, New York.

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