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Juan Varela

Director of Business and Digital Strategy, Agencia EFE

Bio Current as of June 12, 2019

Juan Varela is a journalist, consultant and media executive with 30 years of experience in Spain, the United States and Latin America in digital, audiovisual and print media. 

Specialist in strategy and digital transformation, product and business development, marketing and management of organizations. 

Consultant and responsible for a hundred projects with clients such as the Vocento group, NBCUniversal (Telemundo), La Nación or Grupo Clarín in Argentina, El Mercurio in Chile, O Globo or Correio Braziliense in Brazil and other media in Mexico, Uruguay, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Peru and other Latin American countries.

In his long career he has been Vice President of Contents of Impremedia (the largest chain of newspapers, weeklies and websites in Spanish in the United States), director and founder of ADN.es, director of Diari de Tarragona, and deputy director of El Periódico de Catalunya , Diario 16 and El Sol. He 
has also combined his executive positions with an abundant work as an analyst and columnist in the group Vocento, Público or ElDiario.es, and as a collaborator of several technology companies in the development of editorial systems and other digital tools.