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Founder and Controlling Shareholder of Baeza & Co. and Founder and Executive Chairman of V-Me Media, Inc. Director of the Company since 1999.
Mr. Baeza formed Baeza & Co. in 1995 to create the first Hispanic-owned merchant banking firm focusing on the Pan-Hispanic region. In 1996, Baeza & Co. entered into a partnership with Trust Company of the West for the purpose of forming TCW/Latin America Partners, L.L.C. ("TCW/LAP"). Mr. Baeza served as Chairman and CEO of TCW/LAP from its inception until 2003 when he relinquished day-to-day operating control of TCW/LAP in order to form The Baeza Group, a Hispanic-owned alternative investment firm. In 2006, The Baeza Group partnered with Thirteen/WNET, a public broadcasting service affiliate, to form V-Me Media, Inc., a new national Spanish language television network to be distributed through the digital channels of public television affiliate stations. V-Me Media is controlled by The Baeza Group and Mr. Baeza serves as V-Me's Founder and Executive Chairman. Mr. Baeza is also Lead Director of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and a director of Ariel Mutual Fund Group, AusAm Biotechnologies, Inc., and Urban America LLC. | 