About

Melanie Montenegro heads the legal function at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal aimed at Hispanic and Latino Americans in the US broadcast through the American Spanish-language platforms Telemundo Studios, the largest Spanish-language US content producer, and Telemundo Internacional, the second largest distributor of Spanish-language content worldwide. She is frequently involved in some of the most challenging and exciting legal matters, from acquiring scripts, negotiating production services agreements, and overseeing production on some of the most popular Spanish-language entertainment titles. Montenegro was born in Guatemala and subsequently relocated to New York, where she began her career at Kaye Scholer. After six years with the firm she moved to Spanish Broadcasting Systems (SBS) in Miami as corporate finance counsel. She was later appointed as SBS’s executive vice president and general counsel before joining NBC Telemundo Universal Enterprises in 2013.