Hernan Lopez

Hernan Lopez is the Co-Founder of Danvas, a startup that has raised over 7 million dollars in seed funding, and is bringing digital art into the real world through a specialized, luxury LED display. Danvas is already changing the digital art landscape by providing solutions designed to empower artists to grow their practice and collectors to acquire more NFT art.

Lopez is also the Founder and Chairperson of the Hernan Lopez Family Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping increase diversity in leadership.

Prior to Danvas, Lopez was the Founder and CEO of Wondery, one of the largest podcast publishers, which was acquired by Amazon in 2021. Launched in 2016, Wondery became best known for its riveting storytelling podcasts including Dr Death, WeCrashed, Business Wars, The Shrink Next Door, Dirty John, and Joe Exotic. 31 of Wondery’s shows have reached #1 on Apple Podcasts and it is the only publisher to have simultaneously claimed the #1 and #2 ‘Top New Podcasts’ slots on an annual Podtrac ranker.

Lopez has been a featured speaker at SXSW, The Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity, Natpe, Promax, CES, The Festival Of Media, The INMA World Congress, WSJ Tech Live, and many investor conventions worldwide. His articles about advertising and media have been published by Ad Age and Fast Company. He is a founding member and Governor of The Podcast Academy, previously served on the board of GLAAD, and now serves on the board of the Latino Donor Collaborative.

A native of Argentina, Hernan moved to Miami in 1997, where he obtained an MBA from the University of Miami. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his family.