Overview

Gender

female

Nely Galán is a self-made media mogul. Dubbed the Tropical Tycoon by the New York Times Magazine, she was the first Latina president of entertainment for a US television network (Telemundo). She is an Emmy Award–winning producer of more than 700 episodes of television in Spanish and English, which she produced through her multimedia company Galan Entertainment. Galán is the founder of the Adelante Movement, which seeks to empower multicultural women economically and entrepreneurially. She is the author of The NY Times bestselling book Self Made, Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant, and Rich in Every Way (2016 Random House) about the revolution in women's entrepreneurship led by multicultural women in the US and emerging women around the world. Her book has been published in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. Her next book, Don't Buy Shoes Buy Buildings, comes out in 2019.