Celia Bouza is Vice President of Multi-Platform Video at ESPN, where she oversees digital video strategy and production across YouTube, social platforms, and the ESPN App and ESPN.com. In this role, she focuses on expanding ESPN’s reach, innovating storytelling formats, and driving engagement with fans across multiple platforms.

Promoted to Vice President in 2023, Bouza initially coupled leadership of Social Production with oversight of ESPN NEXT, the company’s premier development program. During her tenure with NEXT, she managed more than 250+ Production Assistants and Content Associates, launched the NEXT Accelerator to provide an exclusive path for top talent across The Walt Disney Company, and spearheaded recruitment, training, and long-range strategic planning.

Her impact on ESPN NEXT began in May 2019, marked by her return to Production as Director of NEXT – the same program that jumpstarted her career nine years earlier. Building on this foundation, in 2017, Bouza expanded her influence as she was promoted to Associate Director within Technology Operations at the Walt Disney Company. In this role, she handled the intake, prioritization, and funding allocation for technology requests from various ESPN business units including Studio Production, Remote Production, Programming, Creative Services and Social and Digital Video.

Her journey at ESPN began in 2010 as a Production Assistant, where she produced a wide range of content, from SportsCenter highlights to teases for Sunday NFL Countdown. Bouza’s role as Associate Producer during her final two years in Production garnered consecutive Emmy awards for her work on features for College GameDay.

Celia’s trajectory at ESPN also includes her tenure in Production Enhancements, where she served as a liaison between Production, Technology, and other groups, contributing to the generation of cutting-edge ideas and facilitating the implementation of new techniques to enhance content and storytelling. During this period, she managed a team of talented motion graphics designers and earned her third Emmy while working on Monday Night Football.

A native of Bakersfield, California, Celia graduated with a degree in communications from California State University Bakersfield.

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