Manuel E. Machado
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Manuel E. Machado | |
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| Born | June 29, 1967 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Co-chairman of C-ComGroup, Inc. |
Manuel E. Machado (born June 29, 1967) a Cuban-American businessman and the co-chairman of CCOMGROUP, a minority-owned communications agency headquartered in Miami, Florida.[1]
Career
Machado has worked for Univision Network, Burson-Marsteller, and Bacardi. In 1994, he worked as a communications entrepreneur, founded the Meka group, a marketing and communications firm that he initially ran out of his house, kicking off services with a project for Foot Locker surrounding Carnival Miami’s Calle Ocho Festival.[citation needed]
Machado co-founded MGSCOMM with his business partner Al Garcia-Serra in 2003,[2] a Minority Business Enterprise with headquarters in Miami, Florida. The holding company for MGS, SWAY, PostMaster, and RunWild, ranked among the top 20 in the "2013 Advertising Age 50 Largest U.S. Hispanic Agencies",[3] and among the top 100 in the "2012 Hispanic Business 500 Largest US Hispanic-Owned Companies".[4]
Machado has been on the Audit and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Broadcasting System for 10 years.
Recognition
In 2013, Machado was named Agency Executive of the Year by HispanicAd.com.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ "Machado joins C-Com Group and a new growth strategy emerges". HispanicAd.com. December 24, 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ Lawrence, Christina (December 2013). "Party Precise". Modern Luxury Miami. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ "Hispanic Fast Pack 2013" (PDF). Advertising Age. 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ "HispanicBusiness 500 ~ 30th Anniversary". Hispanic Business. 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- ^ "Q&A with Manny Machado: Bringing the message home". Miamiherald.com. 2 June 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ "Manuel E.Machado named "One of Miami's Men of the Moment", Modern Luxury Miami. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ Elliott, Stuart (14 October 2014). "Specialists in a Changing America". New York Times. Retrieved 22 July 2021.