Hugo Tapia
Founder, NXT Media Consulting
Former HBO, Sony and Fox executive. Has been developing his skills working with the best professional storytellers in the world for decades. Media and entertainment business leader with international experience building brands, content strategies, and media partnerships across Latin America and the United States.
Hugo Tapia is an accomplished business leader and media executive with a career spanning brand strategy, content development, and media partnerships across Latin America and the United States. Based in Houston, TX he works with founders, executives, and brand teams who are ready to turn their story into a strategic asset.
His work spans branded entertainment, content strategy, and executive communication — with hands-on experience in high-profile media alliances including HBO Latin America, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, YouTube. He understands how brands and media intersect, and how to make that intersection work for business.
Hugo brings a bilingual, bicultural perspective to every engagement — fluent in both the language and the business logic of markets on both sides of the border.
- Founder & Principal Consultant, NXT Media Consulting
- International media executive — Latin America and United States
- Branded entertainment and content strategy across B2B and B2C sectors
- Media partnerships with Elefantec Global, 2btube Latinoamérica, and Grupo Fórmula
- Certified: Google AdWords, Google AdSense, YouTube Strategy & Monetization, Google Analytics
- Education: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
- Bilingual consulting in English and Spanish — native Spanish, full professional English
Certified StoryBrand Guide — trained in the Donald Miller framework for brand messaging clarity.
"His leadership profile, business vision, and team development can be defined as central to the success of any company or project. Another attribute is, without a doubt, his capacity for communication and interaction across areas."
— Patrick Ralph, Sony Pictures
Strategy First. Story Always.
Hugo's consulting philosophy is built on a single conviction: that the most powerful business tool available to any leader is a well-crafted story. Not as a creative exercise — as a strategic one. Every engagement starts with the same question: What is the one story only you can tell?