Jorge A. Plasencia is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Republica Havas, one of America’s leading creative, media, and communications agencies. Since launching the agency in 2006, he has provided strategic, brand, communications, and growth counsel to Fortune 500 and blue-chip companies. One of Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies in America, Republica joined forces with Havas Group, a subsidiary of Paris-based Vivendi, in 2018. Since its founding, the agency grew to become the No. 1 U.S. independent multicultural agency and was named an Agency of the Year and a Top Place to Work.

Prior to Republica, Jorge was corporate vice president and operating manager of Univision Radio, and Vice President at Estefan Enterprises, Inc., where he was responsible for corporate business strategy, marketing, and communications.