Telemundo Names Navarro Senior Vice President

Telemundo, a leading producer of high-quality content for Hispanics in the U.S. and audiences around the world, announced today that Joe Navarro has been named Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Telemundo Communications Group. Navarro will report to Telemundo President, Don Browne and functionally to Margaret Lazo, Executive Vice President, NBC Universal Entertainment. 

In this position, Navarro will oversee all human resources responsibilities for Telemundo Communications Group's domestic and international operations.

"Joe has been an integral member of the Telemundo family since 2003 and is an exceptional human resource professional who brings experience, talent, and passion and is committed to excellence," said Browne.

Navarro joined Telemundo in 2003 as Director, Human Resources for WKAQ in Puerto Rico. He has served as Vice President, Human Resources for Telemundo since 2006, overseeing the complete human resources infrastructure for all of the Telemundo Stations Group. In this position, Navarro received the GE/NBCU Human Resources Excellence Award in 2005 and 2008.

Before joining Telemundo in 2003, Navarro was Partner, Co-Founder and Vice President of Human Resources for The Loyalty Management Group in Puerto Rico, where he was responsible for leading the human resources functions for over 50 companies.

Prior to that, Navarro worked as Senior Executive Consultant for the Human Capital Consulting Group in Puerto Rico. In this position, he led a staff of human resource professionals with responsibilities in developing and implementing all policies, programs and procedures related to human resources for 20 companies.

Navarro's experience includes extensive knowledge of human resources and the Hispanic market. He resides in Miami, Florida. 

About Telemundo: Telemundo Communications Group, Inc. & Subsidiaries ("Telemundo"), a division of NBC Universal, is a world-class media company, leading the industry in the production and distribution of high-quality Spanish-language content across its multiplatform portfolio to U.S. Hispanics and audiences around the world.  Telemundo's multiple platforms include Telemundo, a Spanish-language television network featuring original productions, theatrical motion pictures, news and first-class sports events, reaching 94% of U.S. Hispanic viewers in 210 markets through its 14 owned-and-operated stations, 46 broadcast affiliates, and over 1,000 cable affiliates; mun2, is the lifestyle cable network for today's culture connectors (C2s) - bicultural Latinos. As the bilingual network that amplifies the Latinos experience, mun2 is uniquely American and reaches over 35 million U.S.  TV households nationwide on digital and analog cable, satellite and free television; Telemundo Digital Media, which leverages Telemundo's original content for distribution across digital and emerging platforms including mobile devices and www.telemundo.com and www.holamun2.com; and Telemundo International, the company's international distribution arm which has positioned Telemundo as the second largest provider of Spanish-language content worldwide by syndicating content to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.