John C. Sosa

SVP, Ad Sales Marketing at NGL Media

A seasoned marketer and communicator, John brings over 20 years of insights and experience in developing and executing strategic and innovative multi-platform campaigns for blue-chip brand partners. Previously at NBCUniversal, he held a VP position with the network partnerships team at Telemundo Enterprises where he oversaw the programming genres of both Reality and Tentpole Specials for four years before being tapped to help create a partnerships team to work across the entire NBC network portfolio. Prior to NBCU, John worked as a General Market Account Director at Walton Isaacson, was the Director of Integrated Marketing at VIACOM’s MTV TR3s where he helped relaunch the cable channel for young urban bilinguals, and began his career by honing his marketing acumen at The Bravo Group for over a decade, where he held multiple account management posts and formed their department of Business Management.

John has built best-practice initiatives in the Banking, QSR, Auto, Government, CPG, Pharma, Telecomm, Insurance, and Retail industries for blue chip clients such as AXE, Lexus, Mazda, Banco Popular, State Farm, T-Mobile, McDonald’s, The New York Times, Samsung and Target just to name a few. John has been recognized with marketing awards from Telemundo Enterprises for his work on AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Gain, a Gold Ex Award for the AXE One Night Only experiential music program, and a Gold Effie and 4A’s Multicultural O’Toole Award for his work with The U.S. Postal Service.

An east-coast native, John lives the U.S. bi-cultural Hispanic experience firsthand. Fluent in Spanish, he has roots that extend to both Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. He received his Marketing BBA from the accredited Hagan School of Business at Iona College in Westchester, New York where he also attended grad school specializing in both Corporate Communications and Public Relations and where he held posts as a former Director of Undergraduate Admissions along with holding a Board of Director's seat with their Alumni Association.

Timeline

  • SVP, Ad Sales Marketing

    Current role