ADVISORY BOARD

Grace Agostino is Vice President of Network Sales for Nueva Network. With a career spanning over two decades in marketing, Agostino is a seasoned professional who takes pride in building and nurturing deep relationships within the industry. Specializing in multicultural marketing, her expertise has propelled her to the forefront of the ever-evolving media landscape, staying ahead of the curve and positioning her clients and colleagues for continued success in an ever-changing market. Having started as a sales assistant in 1996, Agostino has risen through the ranks to her position today as VP/Network Sales. In that capacity she works with national brands and agencies, delivering multicultural solutions through Nueva’s audio network of Spanish-language stations that reaches a monthly audience of 20 million. Agostino was recognized by Radio Ink in 2023 as a “Woman to Watch.”

Angelica “Angie” Balderas is a Hispanic media executive with more than 25 years of experience in broadcasting. As Senior Vice President for Entravision, she oversees all operations and sales for seven radio stations in Sacramento and Modesto, California. Before her current role, she was Director of Sales for Adelante Media Group, where she led all local, national, network, and digital sales. She was previously National Sales Manager and worked with national advertisers and their agencies to execute advertising and promotional programs over Adelante Media Group’s nine markets. She earlier served as President/Principal of Aztec Media. Angie has consistently been named one of Radio Ink’s Most Influential Women. She has served on the NAB Radio Show steering committee, the advisory board for Radio Ink’s Hispanic Conference, and Nielsen Audio’s Multi Cultural ANA Conference board. She is also past president of the National Latina Business Women Association and a Hispanic Radio Conference Medalla de Cortez winner.

Shirley Davenport is General Manager of Curtis Media’s WYMY/Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC. A North Carolina native, Davenport grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her parents were Christian missionaries. Her early years in South America, combined with her fluency in Spanish, give her a unique perspective on marketing to the growing Hispanic community in North Carolina. With her unique blend of retail management and radio and television media sales and management, including a Hispanic market focus and a broad and deep knowledge of the Triangle area, Davenport is the perfect leader for the La Ley sales team. She was a top AE with Univision television in Raleigh-Durham before joining CMG in 2014 and has built a customer-focused sales team for the popular Spanish regional station. Her passionate understanding of the Latino customer, her trademark customer service for clients, and the professional development of her team members are the keys to success for this unique radio property.

As the CEO and owner of Solmart Media, LLC, Tomás Martinez is responsible for all management aspects of the company’s Southwest Florida stations: WZSP-FM/HD, WTMY-FM, WTMY-AM, WZSP/HD2. Martinez has more three decades of experience in the radio industry. A native of Cuba, he launched his career at WOJO-FM/Chicago before moving to Miami to manage WQBA-AM and WAQI-AM. In subsequent years he worked at Heftel Broadcasting Corp., for the State of Florida on behalf of Shadow Broadcast Services/Westwood One, and at Radio Unica Network. Additionally, Martinez spent 10 years at Prisa Radio as GM of Radio Caracol Miami.. Before assuming the position of CEO and owner of Solmart Media, LLC, he spent three years as GM/COO of Actualidad Media Group in Miami.Martinez is an acting board member for the Florida Association of Broadcasters, the NAB’s Small and Medium Market Radio committee, and Sarasota’s Jazz Club. Martinez has also contributed his expertise to the Hispanic Radio Ink conference for the last five years.

Francisco “Frank” Montero is a Partner with the law firm of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, specializing in telecommunications, broadcasting, media, and technology. Montero is well known as an early advocate for Hispanic and Spanish-language media in the U.S. and Latin America. He is on the Board of Directors of the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council and serves as the Washington, D.C., legal representative for the Puerto Rico Broadcasters Association. Frank has been recognized by numerous publications and organizations as a top media attorney and is a recipient of the Hispanic Radio Conference’s Medallas de Cortez Distinguished Leadership Award for significant contributions to Spanish-language and Hispanic-targeted broadcasting. He serves on the advisory boards for Bloomberg BNA Now: Tech and Telecom and the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference.

Jesus Salas is Chief Content Officer and Executive Vice President of Spanish Broadcasting System. In this capacity he oversees the radio programming of the hugely successful WSKQ-FM (Mega 97.9)/New York and was behind the launch of the first “Cubaton” music formatted station in the world, WRMA-FM Ritmo 95.7. Salas is also responsible for all of the SBS stations in major Hispanic markets throughout the United States, including Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Puerto Rico. In addition to his considerable success in the professional radio community, Jesus Salas also makes a consistent and concerted effort to strengthen the local community and is an active member of the Educational Excellence School Advisory Committee.