Cisco Suarez

Cisco Suarez
Francisco "Cisco" Suarez
Born	Francisco Suarez (1956-04-02) April 2, 1956 (age 61) La Habana, Cuba
Occupation	Independent producer/director
Years active	1974–present
Spouse(s)	Mary Black-Suarez

Francisco "Cisco" Suarez (born April 2, 1956) Independent producer/director. Was Senior Vice President of Special Events and Manager at Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the largest Spanish language television network in the world in terms of viewership. Suarez is an award-winning producer/director of many important live events geared towards Hispanic Americans, including the Latin GRAMMY Awards, Premios Lo Nuestro Latin music awards, and Premios Juventud youth awards, as well as special event productions such as La Banda 2015. Suarez joined UCI as Director of Project Development for the subsidiary TeleFutura in 2001 and became SVP of Special Events for Univision in 2004.

Suarez was born on April 2, 1956 in Havana, Cuba. At age fourteen, he moved to the United States and began his television career at age seventeen at the local NBC affiliate station, WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1974.

While working at WPTV, he was quickly promoted to a Senior Director position, which he held from 1974 until 1979 when he accepted a position at the Miami CBS affiliate station WTVJ directing and producing the 11 o'clock news, A.M. South Florida, the Ralph Renick Report. He was also the technical director of all Miami- and Caribbean-based sports events broadcast on CBS. Suarez spent two years as an executive producer and director for the Spanish International Network (S.I.N.) from 1984 to 1985, directing the O.T.I International Festival which was broadcast live to 23 countries, producing and directing news coverage of the Colombian presidential elections, and directing and executive producing the internationally broadcast live program, Mundo Latino.

Suarez accepted a position as co-partner on H.B.C Productions at Telemundo in 1985, which was the first international Spanish language newscast on the network. He worked as executive producer and director of the documentary series One Day in the Life of, and directed worldwide broadcasts of the Pope's Mass in Miami. Suarez worked as production manager, executive producer and director of several Telemundo programs, including Estrenos y Estrellas, Día a Día, Esta Noche Con Ud., and Boxeo Mundial. From 1987 to 1992, Suarez held the position of Senior Executive Producer and Creative Director for the Telemundo Network, where he produced all special events and shows and managed the creative aspects of new programs.