David Chitel

David Chitel is considered by many to be an industry leader in the New Generation Latino media and entertainment space. Along with founding partner, actor John Leguizamo, in 2001 David created one of the first Latino social networking communities, iCaramba.com. Over the next 5 years, David evolved parent company, LatCom Communications, into a leading 360 degree integrated service provider helping Fortune 500’s reach New Generation Latinos through live events, magazines, online and college campus marketing. In 2006, he sold LatCom to Batanga Network. Concurrently, David founded and chaired the New Generation Latino Consortium (NGLC), an organization dedicated to hosting business conferences and fielding innovative research studies focused on the NGL audience. David’s career began at SiboneyUSA Hispanic advertising where he successfully served as Director of Client Services and New Business on such accounts as Colgate-Palmolive, U.S. Postal Service, Banco Popular and others. David's new company, NGL Media, is a first in class distributor, aggregator and producer of in-culture video content for Digitally-connected Latinos. He lives in New York City with his wife and two beautiful “Jewirican” kids who are “Spanglish-dominant.” He holds a B.A. in Philosophy with a Spanish minor from Boston University.