Albert Chavez

Albert Chavez has served as CFO of KCET since 2011. Mr. Chavez was part of the leadership team to usher through the merger between KCET and Link Media to form KCETLink, and retained his position as CFO for the new organization. Prior to joining KCET, Mr. Chavez was the Chief Financial Officer of Grupo Radio Centro’s (RC) broadcast operations in Los Angeles. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Lombardia Capital Partners, LLC, a $1.7 billion institutional investor, where he managed all administrative areas of the firm and was the Chief Compliance Officer from 2006 to 2009. Previously Mr. Chavez served as the SVP/CFO for Si TV, Inc. (2003-2006), a digital television network in Los Angeles. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Chavez provided financial consulting services to a variety of early stage or troubled companies in the technology, media and financial services areas.

Prior to that Mr. Chavez co-founded and was the SVP/CFO of El Dorado Communications, Inc. (1991- 1998), a radio broadcasting company. Before El Dorado Communications he worked for the RCA Corporation and General Electric Company (which merged in 1985) in various financial positions in New York City, Mexico City and at GE’s corporate headquarters in Fairfield, Conn. (1985-1990). Mr. Chavez began his career with Deloitte in Los Angeles where he earned his CPA. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and mathematics from the University of Texas at El Paso and went on to earn his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.