Joaquin F. Blaya

Joaquin F. Blaya of Miami, Florida, is chairman of Blaya Media Inc. Since emigrating to the United States from Chile, Blaya has held a number of senior management positions with media companies.

He served as chairman of Radio Unica, a Spanish-language radio network, and as CEO of the Telemundo Group, Inc., the nation's second-largest Spanish-language television network. Blaya also served as president of Univision Holdings, Inc., the nation's largest Spanish-language media company. Before coming to the United States in 1966, he worked in several marketing and media firms.

Blaya is active in national and local civic affairs. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, as Chairman of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Miami, and on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian Institution. In 2002, he received the American Institute for Public Service's Lifetime Achievement Jefferson Award, and the Robert C. Maynard Legend Award given by the National Association of Minority Media Executives.