Jorge Granier
Miami
Jorge Granier is CEO of Latin Everywhere and Executive Producer of the hit comedy "Jane the Virgin" which he is responsible for bringing from Venezuela to the United States where it airs Monday nights on the CW.
The Golden Globe nominated series Jane The Virgin is an adaptation of Venezuela’s RCTV telenovela Juana La Virgen.The CW series chronicles the story of aspiring writer Jane Villanueva, played by Golden Globe winning actress Gina Rodriguez, who is accidentally artificially inseminated and subsequently struggles to navigate her relationships with her biological father, her boyfriend and her religious mother. Jane The Virgin won the AFI Program of the Year, People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy and a Peabody Award.
As CEO of Latin Everywhere, Granier oversees the Hispanic digital media company which provides channels, content, and mobile apps to digital media audiences worldwide. As a market leader that boasts over 50,000 hours of content, Latin Everywhere controls one of the largest collections of digital content rights in the world, and distributes that digital content including telenovelas, Mexican feature films and user generated material to virtually every major digital platform in the U.S. and Latin America, including Netflix, Google, Amazon, Hulu and many others. Additionally, Latin Everywhere’s YouTube MCN is an established market leader with over 8-million subscribers worldwide that generate over 75-million views per-month.
Most recently, Latin Everywhere expanded their reach through Pongalo (which means “Play it!”in Spanish). Launched in beta this past January, Pongalo.com serves as a worldwide Spanish language streaming destination that features television and film titles from Latin Everywhere’s massive content catalog. Supporting the online presence is Pongalo’s digital app presence that allows the platform to reach virtually every digital and mobile device globally.
Latin Everywhere also produces the wildly successful digital series Isla Presidencial. Jorge has been responsible for the series’ partnership with the Google funded channel, NuevOn, and for introducing the U.S. Hispanic audience to this hit animated series, which now has over 40 million views.
Additionally, Granier continues to act as a Director of RCTV International, a TV production, sales and distribution powerhouse founded in 1953 with a library of over 100 internationally acclaimed telenovelas. He