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Guillermo C. Nicolas (San Antonio, TX) is president and general partner of 3N Group, LLC., a privately held management and development company specializing in commercial real estate in Texas and Florida. Prior to this, Guillermo was the head of Home Shopping Español, an international shopping channel seen by over 30 million Spanish speakers in the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Nicolas’ grandfather, Raoul Cortez, was the pioneer of Spanish language radio and television in the U.S. His father, Emilio, along with two partners, built what is now Univision, the largest Spanish language television network and the first satellite interconnected network in the country.
Nicolas is an avid contemporary art collector. He is on the board of Artpace, a nationally and internationally recognized artist in residence program boasting several Whitney biennial winners and Mac Arthur genius grant recipients. He is the incoming chairman of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation and a member of the Advisory Council of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin.
Nicolas graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1987, earning a degree in history.