Board of Directors

Rene Ruiz

Rene Ruiz

In addition to serving as the Chairman and President for the SELF 1 st Foundation, Rene serves as General Counsel for Pitbull and helps direct his business affairs.

Rene and Pitbull co-founded the Sports Leadership Arts and Management (SLAM!) network of public charter schools. SLAM! serves an overwhelmingly minority and underserved student population and unlocks seemingly unattainable opportunities within the sports industry for its students by preparing them for a myriad of sports-related careers including broadcasting, sports medicine, media production, physical therapy, marketing, nutrition, entertainment, entrepreneurship and management. Rene continues to serve on the Board of Directors for the national SLAM! network of schools, which currently has campuses in Miami, Las Vegas, Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, Apollo Beach, Atlanta, Miami Beach, Boca Raton, San Antonio, and Phoenix serving approximately 10,000 students nation-wide. Rene also serves on the Board of Directors for the SLAM! Foundation, which helps direct the network’s growing list of corporate partnerships and supports the network’s current campuses, as well as the upcoming replications of its successful model throughout the country.

With Pitbull’s dedicated support, SLAM! has garnered significant national attention through features on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, the Katie Couric Show, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, ABC Nightline, and CNN, among countless others. SLAM!’s journey from “305 to Worldwide” took an important step in 2016, when it was awarded a channel on Sirius XM Satellite Radio to be produced by students of the SLAM! network, the first and only school to receive such an honor. SLAM! Radio delivers award-winning student generated and produced content every day on Sirius XM Channel 145.

Along with Pitbull, Rene was a part of former Florida Governor JEB Bush’s bid to purchase the Miami Marlins baseball club in 2017. Rene recently negotiated the naming rights agreement for “Pitbull Stadium” at Florida International University.

Rene is also a Shareholder at Stearns Weaver Miller, a preeminent law firm in Florida. Rene serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. Rene was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2001, at the age of 23. In 2007, Rene was first included in The Best Lawyers in America as an associate lawyer (one of the very few associate attorneys to do so in the history of the prestigious publication). The following year, he was voted into partnership at the age of 30, becoming the youngest equity partner in the history of his law firm. While in law school, Rene interned with the Honorable Stephen T. Brown and the Honorable Ted E. Bandstra in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Rene also served on the Editorial Board of the University of Miami Law Review.

Ignacio Nacho Meyer

Ignacio Meyer

Ignacio “Nacho” Meyer is President of Univision Television Networks Group at TelevisaUnivision Inc., the world’s leading Spanish-language content and media company. In this role, Meyer contributes to TelevisaUnivision’s business expansion and transformation and helps integrate his team based in the United States with the content and operations teams located in Mexico.

With over 20 years in the media, music, and entertainment industry, Meyer strategically promotes the portfolio of brands’ innovation, including Univision, UNIMÁS, Galavisión, and TUDN. He brings the best and most diverse talent, executives, and teams to help create and develop the most watched and awarded Spanish language shows in the U.S. and ensures continuous engagement with the Hispanic to inform, entertain and empower the Hispanic audience.

Ignacio and Pitbull have a long successful history of collaborating through a variety of projects and programs in the media industry together.

Tom Muzquiz

Tom Muzquiz

Tom Muzquiz is a trusted and dynamic talent manager, who works with artists at every stage of their careers, from developing acts to international superstars.

In 2016, the longtime music executive co-founded Entotal Agency, an agency that allows him to protect his clients’ best interests while pursuing his deep commitment to innovation in artist development. This successful combination continues to endear him to a growing list of clients who seek his guidance as they face an industry that’s constantly evolving.

Prior to Entotal, Muzquiz was an accomplished record label executive in Los Angeles and New York City, where he represented artists across all genres. His integrity, knack for creative problem solving and grasp of the big picture propelled him through the ranks at various labels, including Rhino, Epic, Columbia and RCA Records.

Today, those collective experiences have refined his ability to create valuable opportunities for his clients. Tom & Pitbull have worked together for over a decade and are business partners in ENTOTAL as well.