Isabel Rafferty Zavala
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Canela Media
Isabel Rafferty Zavala is a digital marketing pioneer. She is the founder and CEO of Canela Media, a leading digital media tech company that gives brands the tools they need to effectively connect with multicultural audiences through multiple touchpoints, including its free-to-stream platform Canela.TV, influencer marketing, branded content, and more than 180 exclusive Spanish-language sites.
Prior to starting Canela Media, Rafferty founded Mobvious, a company dedicated to reaching US Hispanic and African-American audiences via mobile advertising. Under Rafferty’s leadership, Mobvious quickly became the largest Hispanic-focused ad network, as ranked by Comscore, before being acquired by PRISA in 2017.
