Judi Lopez
Senior Vice President Affiliate Distribution and Marketing
Ms. Lopez is a cable industry veteran with more than 22 years to her credit in the field of content distribution, marketing and advocacy.  She is a leading expert in multi-platform media with a specialization in authoring and executing cutting-edge distribution strategies.  Ms. Lopez has guided several influential content providers across emerging platforms including TV Everywhere and authentication to great success.

Currently, Ms. Lopez is SVP Affiliate Sales and Marketing at nuvoTV, where she has spearheaded distribution since February 2009.  Under Ms. Lopez’s leadership, nuvoTV doubled its availability to 30 million homes and debuted nuvoTV HD.  She recently oversaw the affiliate rebranding of the network from Si TV to nuvoTV.  Ms. Lopez also drives all national and local advocacy efforts and serves as an industry liaison meeting regularly with the NCLR, CHC and other Hispanic organizations to advance the voice of Latinos in the media.

Previously, Ms. Lopez held senior executive positions at AMC Networks where she held multiple roles of increasing responsibility during her nine-year tenure. There she led national content distribution strategy and marketing efforts for AMC, fuse, IFC and WE TV Networks. In her varied capacities at AMC Networks, she was integral in greatly expanding multi-platform subscriber and brand growth for AMC, WE TV IFC, fuse, IFC in Theaters (day & date with theatrical release) and Bravo (now owned by NBC)

During a nine-year tenure with Walt Disney Company’s finance and distribution divisions for Disney Channel, Ms. Lopez led the company’s C-band (Disney Channel Home Satellite) and DBS businesses.
Among Ms. Lopez’s additional noteworthy industry experience with Disney include leading the strategic team that spearheaded the Disney Channel’s successful evolution from a premium to a basic service, and as one of the original team members to launch Toon Disney (now Disney XD) and SOAPnet.

Ms. Lopez is past treasurer for the board of directors of the T. Howard Foundation (diversity in media,) is a National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) member and mentor, a member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT.) Ms. Lopez is a nationally recognized leader in cable and Hispanic media and has been named to CableFAX Magazine’s prestigious “Most Influential Minorities” and “Most Powerful Women in Cable” List.  She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, California.  Ms. Lopez also attended CTAM University at Harvard Business School.