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Hernan Lopez
Founder of Owl & Co
West Hollywood, California
Overview
Hernan Lopez is the Founder of Owl & Co, known for creating value through Streamonomics. He has an extensive background in leadership roles at companies like Wondery and Fox International Channels, with a strong focus on digital media, advertising, and EBITDA growth.
Lopez's career highlights include founding successful ventures like Wondery and serving in various high-level positions at Fox International Channels, showcasing his expertise in digital media, content creation, and strategic leadership.
Work Experience
Founder
2024 - Current
Helping founders, leaders and investors build value by looking at the overlooked.
Founder & Chairperson
2020
The Hernan Lopez Family Foundation was established to help advance diversity in leadership, both from the demand side as well as the supply side, and funded with a significant share of the proceeds of the sale of Wondery. In addition to supporting other 501(c)(3) organizations directly, our Fellowship program, now in its 4th year, directly works with diverse professionals and entrepreneurs.
Co-Founder
2021 - 2024
Danvas brought digital art into the real world through a specialized, luxury LED display and groundbreaking software capable of playing generative art across multiple displays. In just over a year, Danvas’ products were featured by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Pace Gallery and Art Blocks, awarded a patent, and recognized by Fast Company’s Innovation By Design Awards.
Digital art platform including a micro-LED display with iconic design, proprietary optimization algorithm for generative art and video.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from WAGMI Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, UTA.VC, Waverley Capital, Jason Nazar, BDMI, Greycroft, Vayner/RSE and Richard Greenfield.
Founding Governor
2020 - 2023
Helped create The Podcast Academy, the association of podcast industry professionals that organizes The Ambies, in addition to training and mentorship programs
The Podcast Academy is a membership organization for podcast creators and industry leaders.
Founder & CEO
2016 - 2021
Started the company that would become known for its emotionally immersive storytelling podcasts, including Dirty John, Dr Death, Business Wars, American History Tellers, WeCrashed, Dying For Sex, many of them adapted for TV. Post VC-funding (Greycroft, LererHippeau, Advancit, Waverley), scaled it to become the largest independent podcast player before exiting to Amazon Music in 2021.
Wondery, a network of storytellers, creates and curates immersive podcasts.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Lerer Hippeau, Watertower Ventures, Greycroft, BDMI, Waverley Capital, Advancit Capital and Powerhouse Capital.
President & CEO
2011 - 2016
Scaled and ran Fox International Channels, which operated hundreds of channels around the world under the Fox, FX, NatGeo, Star and other brands, production houses, and digital extensions (today part of Disney), growing to $3bn in revenue by the time I left to start Wondery
COO
2008 - 2010
President, Latin America & GM, UK
2003 - 2008
Fox International Channels (FIC) es una empresa subsidiara del grupo Fox Entertainment, parte del conglomerado de medios News Corporation
SVP, Managing Director, Fox Latin America
2000 - 2003