AFO VERDE
CHAIRMAN/CEO, SONY MUSIC LATIN IBERIA
In his role overseeing Sony’s Latin operation, the Argentina-bred chief in 2018 toasted the label group’s 49.1% hold on the Latin market. A couple of years prior, on Oct. 10, 2016, the music producer/label executive held court at Jennifer Lopez’s home in Bel Air, Calif. Brazilian icon Roberto Carlos, there to film a video for his Lopez duet, “Chegaste,” was in one room, while the singer’s ex Marc Anthony, on-site to work on her first Spanish-language LP in a decade, stood on a balcony. Verde, meanwhile, was there for his first Billboard shoot, photographed alongside Lopez for that year’s Latin Power Players issue, in which he was named Executive of the Year. “Afo is an artist’s record man,” said Lopez at the…