Felix Racca

Current

Managing Partner at Paladin Ventures Corp.
President at Tangourmet S.A.
Cofounder and VP at 5 Star Sporting

International Professor at ADEN
Founder, CEO at People-Ventures

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Past

International Professor Business Planning at ADEN Business School
Founder, Vice Chairman, CVO at Fuego Inc.
EVP at Fuego, Inc.

Founder, CEO at InterSoft Argentina S.A.
President CEO at Intersoft
Founder, EVP Strategy at InterSoft Argentina S.A.
Programmer at Balducci y Navas

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Education

Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina 'Santa María de los Buenos Aires'
Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Recommended

18 people have recommended Felix

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

Felix Racca’s Summary

Founder, EVP Strategy, BOD, and Chief Visionary Officer of a BPM company 7 years. Founder, CEO of a large ERP company 7 years. Founder, Chief Applications Architect and VP of Sales and Marketing of a large ERP company 7 years.
Unique Leadership capabilities proven in 4 successful ventures, three of them self funded.

Presently: Managing partner of Paladin Ventures Corporation, company dedicated to promote and fund early stage ventures in Latin America, And of Tangourmet, a fast-frozen food company.

Goals: Leverage my creativity, leadership experience and contacts to create new ventures: companies where people are more important than money, do what they love, love what they do and love to be of service to others.

Felix Racca’s Specialties:

Business Planning and executive management, Process streamlining, IT Solutions Architecture, Application design and development, Methodologies, Domestic and International Sales, Business Development, Raising Capital, Board of Directors, Visionary.

Felix Racca’s Experience

Managing Partner

Paladin Ventures Corp.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Early stage Latin American Ventures by entrepreneurs who love what they do, who they do it with and who they do it for!
President

Tangourmet S.A.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food Production industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

Manage a company that produces crio-frozen, portioned, gourmet food made with the best Argentine meats. Argentine health for export!
Cofounder and VP

5 Star Sporting

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Sports industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

Host Hunters, Fishermen, Polo Players, Adventurers from all over the world to Argentina's best, untapped locations. www.5starsporting.com
International Professor

ADEN

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Teach Business Plan Creation and Presentation to graduate students.
Founder, CEO

People-Ventures

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)

Help create new people-companies. Currently have co-founded two new ventures... stay tuned!
Broker between entrepreneurs and off-shore human resources of top quality (architects, designers, senior-engineers), as well as Venture Capital.
International Professor Business Planning

ADEN Business School

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Founder, Vice Chairman, CVO

Fuego Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1999 — March 2004 (4 years 9 months)

Strategic Business Development, Product Strategy, Company Evangelist, Industry Thought Leadership, Senior Management.
EVP

Fuego, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2004 (5 years )
Founder, CEO

InterSoft Argentina S.A.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1989 — June 1996 (7 years 6 months)

After having served at InterSoft as EVP in charge of Sales and Marketing from 1983 to 1989. Felix took the CEO responsibility. During the years of his tenure as CEO the company grew at an average composite rate of 100% per year. By 1995 InterSoft was the largest software company in Argentina, had the majority share of the ERP market and 30% share of the RDBMS market. From 1992 to 1996, he started the subsidiaries of Intersoft in Mexico, Brasil and Spain, As well as collaborating to creat the development labs in Russia.
President CEO

Intersoft

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1989 — 1996 (7 years )
Founder, EVP Strategy

InterSoft Argentina S.A.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1983 — January 1989 (5 years 3 months)

Secured the first deals that allowed the company to begin. Managed growth Sales and Marketing strategies. As one of those strategies created the Argentine Chapter of Uniforum and served as president from 1989 to 1991.
Architected "Aurus" the flagship module of InterSoft's ERP suite.
Programmer

Balducci y Navas

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1979 — 1981 (2 years )

Felix Racca’s Education

Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina 'Santa María de los Buenos Aires'

Professor , Information Technology , 1995 — 1996
Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires

DPME , MBA , 1989 — 1991
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Industrial Engineering, Systems Analyst 1973 — 1983

Additional Information

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Felix Racca’s Interests:

Family and friends, Composing music, film making, tibetan bowls treatments (I deliver!), painting, art, meditation, harmony, happiness and, of course, making money to finance it all.