Javier Maza
President
Maza Communications, Inc.

A University of Lima graduate, Javier Maza is a professional journalist with 20 years’ experience in the field. He has worked for key media organizations in his native country, Peru, including El Comercio newspaper, the oldest in the country. Now residing in Miami, Maza has built an extensive career in Media Training.

He has been communications director for Travel Channel Latin America, Ericsson Latin America and managing supervisor at Fleishman-Hillard Latin America. As a Media Training consultant, he has worked with companies and governments in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Peru, as well as with U.S. multinationals. He has been a speaker at various international conferences hosted by Florida International University (FIU) and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico.

He is the author of "Cómo Enfrentar con Éxito a los Periodistas".

Email: javiermaza@aol.com

He has been creative director for a number of advertising agencies, and has directed hundreds of political spots run by media outlets throughout the Hemisphere. He was creative director for President George W. Bush communications campaign targeting the Hispanic community. Additionally, he has worked in several campaigns for legislation initiatives undertaken by the U.S. and Mexican governments. He currently provides visual and advertising consulting services to top serving officials in and out of the United States.

Martínez was also creative director at San Antonio, Texas-based GDC Marketing & Communications, one of the leading advertising and marketing agencies in the United States. He has been a speaker at numerous international conferences hosted by Miami-based Centro Interamericano de Gerencia Política. He is president of Mas Consulting in San Antonio, Texas.

A Maza Communications Inc associate consultant specializing in public image, he is a distinguished professional in political communications consulting. In addition, he has had a successful career as an actor, which makes him one of the most renowned professionals in the field. He served governments, political candidates, companies and organizations in and out of Mexico, his native land, where he currently resides.

He is also founder and president of Imagen, Arte y Comunicación. An active member of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Consultores Políticos and of the Centro Interamericano de Gerencia Política, he acts as consultant to Grupo Televisa’s Office of the President in Mexico.

Marcos Ommati
A Portuguese media trainer.

A native from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ommati worked as a Discovery Channel host and has also been a contributor to important Portuguese-language publications in the region. He also worked for Bloomberg Television and Radio, where he directly managed day-to-day operations of a team of 30 people in New York, São Paulo and Buenos Aires for Portuguese/Spanish language television and radio stations.

In the year 2001, after 10 years living in the US, Marcos was invited to return to Brazil and work as a news anchor and special reporter for the second largest Brazilian TV station, SBT.

He is a graduate in Journalism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and in Interpretation from the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNI-RIO).

Arlene Rivera

Is a journalist with more than 5 years of experience. She studied Broadcast Journalism at Florida International University and has been involved in different areas of mass communication such as on-air work, field interviews, radio / television commercials, voice over work, and live show production. Her current communication activities include production of a live television show at Telemundo / NBC.

She held the title of Miss Latina World 2002 and has hosted and co-hosted several events such as the Miss Puerto Rico Pageant in Puerto Rico.