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Ophelia Pastrana nació en Colombia en 1982 y desde el año 2000 ha vivido en Bogotá, Miami, Sydney y en México en lo que finalizaba una licenciatura en Física y luego una Maestría en Econometría. Se dedica a la consultoría de social media para empresas internacionales.
Es una gran promotora de la cultura digital y de la penetración tecnológica dentro de las empresas.
Es co-fundadora de la comunidad más grande de tecnólogos de México, y una de las de mayor crecimiento de América Latina “Tequila Valley” y cofundadora de “SCLBITS". Recientemente se unió a "Kraken Comunicación", donde se encarga de dirigir estrategias de difusión y marketing digital para marcas A+ mexicanas.
Realiza y publica estudios e investigaciones para definir las mejores prácticas a ejecutar para facilitar la adopción de la tecnología en las empresas y es profesora de Estrategias de Negocio en Redes Sociales en el Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Es co-fundadora de la comunidad más grande de tecnólogos de México, y una de las de mayor crecimiento de América Latina “Tequila Valley” y cofundador de “SCLBITS" una de las empresas más importantes de consultoría de medios electrónicos en México.
Realiza estudios e investigaciones para definir las mejores prácticas a ejecutar para facilitar la adopción de la tecnología en las empresas.
Socio fundador de Angel Ventures México. Anteriormente se desempeñó como consultor senior de la firma Innovest Strategic Value Advisors (MSCI Inc) en las ciudades de Toronto y París, y en el despacho Goodrich, Riquelme & Asociados en la Ciudad de México.
En su experiencia destaca el codesarrollo del Indice de Oportunidades para la Mayoría del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, del Indice de Negocios Inclusivos de la Organización de Desarrollo de Holanda SNV y de la Lista Global de Corporaciones Sustentables de Corporate Knights. Es autor de diversos artículos y dos libros.
Es maestro en derecho por la Universidad de Columbia, MBA por la Universidad de York- Schulich y abogado por el ITAM.
Emprendedor, apasionado por el comportamiento de la sociedad, fundé Fondeadora, plataforma de fondeo colectivo y ahora, estoy a cargo de las operaciones de Startup Weekend en México. Fanático del Arsenal del norte de Londres.
Chio is passionate about technology, she’s been involved in blogging and publications for years. Last year she represented Mexican women at the UN’s regional leaders forum, where she spoke about entrepreneurship, technology and gender. She currently covers the Mexican startup and tech scenes in TechCrunch and is part of the StartupBus crew, directin the Mexican team in 2013 and currently running other activities.
Benjamin is an entrepreneur and a software engineer specialized in backend & data structures. His biggest accomplishments include implementing an optimization
cache removal patch for the United States Army's AKO (Army Knowledge Online) system and cofounding a currently 5 year old consulting and web applications company called In2Teck.
He is currently focused on building and making better Ruby on Rails apps while learning everything he can from startup's success stories and culture.
500 Startups Summer 2012 and Mexican VC 1st Generation alumni. Developing Mobile Games for the last 2 years and building Internet stuff for the last 10 years. Several times entrepreneur, social magazines, local smb's directory, etc. Promoting Mexico's startup scene in Silicon Valley. Right now working full time to help kids learn in a fun way with the help of mobile technologies.
Tal Flanchraych lives in New York City and is a cofounder of Exversion, a startup in the big data space. She also consults for startups in need of product and user experience strategy. Previously, she founded Flywheel (formerly known as Cabulous), which is now one of the most popular taxi apps in the United States, and won the Grand Prize in the 2013 Foursquare Global Hackathon for fitness app GymShamer.
Name's Manuel Morato. Better known in the startup world as Eme. I have very strong opinions about many things. I don't like living life like everyone else. I believe crazy is original (I dig Dalí), and I think life should be original, and therefore crazy, an adventure of all sorts.
I write (http://ememorato.blogspot.com). I run long distances. I've been a nomad (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Germany, USA, South Korea, Mexico again). I believe technology and business can change the world for the better. In my free time, I'm a political activist (http://renacimientomx.wordpress.com/). I'm a global business developer (http://adby.me - http://coo.ki). I read. I travel. I meet people. I will soon make beer, too.
I'm the world's brother.
Luis López, known in the startup community as Lulo, is cofounder and CEO of Bandtastic, a Mexico City based music company.
As a designer, Lulo has worked in several different projects like Cloudspotting, Secretmention, Unaplayera.com, Startupbuzz.la, and worked for clients such as 500 Startups, StartupWeekend and many others.
He is a TedxDF speaker, and enjoys talking about his experience in events and conferences everywhere.
Lulo has given conferences in many different places like TEDxDF, Tec de Monterrey, UPAEP, UDEM and so on.
Lulo is also a self-taught drummer, a music junkie and a photography aficionado.
You can read more about him at http://lulo.mx
Gerardo works at Naranya Labs, a Mexican Startup Accelerator and Seed Funding Program based in Monterrey, México. He has been a developer for over 7 years. He is a cofounder of Vendorama and 960 web solutions.
He likes to meet new people and to drink beer with friend.
Jeduan Cornejo is a mexican software engineer. He's CTO of Yogome, where he's helping create a way for kids to learn beyond classrooms using mobile devices. He's worked in Mexico and the US building software, directed StartupBus Mexico, dominates 6 programming languages and hates bad coffee with a passion
