Carlos Godó Valls (Barcelona, 1967) is CEO of Grupo Godó. Fifth generation of the founding family of La Vanguardia, Carlos Godó holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona. He collaborated with the Milton Schwartz law firm in New York and, after an apprenticeship in the United States at the Gannet Group and Washington Post, he began his career at the Godó Group, where he was closely acquainted with most of the departments and headers of the firm. His first important position was that of Managing Director at one of the group’s historic newspapers: Mundo Deportivo. The newspaper underwent some of its most important transformations, abandoning the engraving gap and moving from black and white to color, and multiprinting was developed throughout the national territory, allowing Mundo Deportivo to double its circulation.

In 1997 he was appointed General Manager of the group and in 2003 General Business Manager, a position he left in 2005 when he became CEO of Grupo Godó. La Vanguardia, the flagship of the group, has been adapting to the digital world to the point of consolidating leading positions in the national market. In the paper edition it is the second largest in Spain, according to OJD data, and the first in number of subscriptions. Both media are prominent leaders in Catalonia.

The group’s radio station, RAC 1, has become the undisputed leader in Catalonia, with close to 1 million listeners. The process of structuring the station has been rapid. Its first broadcast was in May 2000. In the first wave of 2001 it registered 24,000 listeners. In 2009 it became for the first time leader in Catalonia with 469,000 listeners and currently dominates the radio landscape in Catalan.

Carlos Godó was until 2022 a director of Prisa Radio, a radio group majority-owned by Prisa, in which Grupo Godó held a 20 percent stake. Prisa Radio has such prominent brands in Spain as Cadena SER, 40 Principales, Dial, 40 Dance, 40 Classic and 40 Urban. In Latin America it is also present in numerous leading positions.

The Godó Group, with Javier Godó as Chairman and Carlos Godó as CEO, has been transforming itself into a conglomerate of companies in which historic newspaper titles coexist with websites, radio stations, distribution companies, printing, digital marketing companies and other companies.

The diversification process continued in 2013 with the participation of Grupo Godó in disruptive digital businesses such as Wallapop, Glovo and Cornerjob. The group is currently involved in fifteen direct investments. In 2008, it promoted the purchase of a minority stake in Yaencontré, an online classifieds portal. During the following years, Grupo Godó gained control through investments and drove the growth of the business significantly until the sale to market leader Idealista in 2020.

Grupo Godó has recently acquired New Marketing companies such as Casanova in Branded Content and Digital Group whose function is the activation of campaigns in search engines and social networks.

From 2022 Carlos Godó is also President of Wemass, the main digital advertising marketplace in Spain. This initiative was born from the union of 3 communication groups: Grupo Godó, Prisa and Vocento. Its objective is to reach communities of interest to advertisers in an effective, safe and respectful way for media and users.