CEO at VoxGente, LLC
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- CEO at VoxGente, LLC
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- Founder, Chairman & CEO at VOY, LLC
- Founder, Chairman & CEO at StarMedia
- Managing Director at AT&T
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- Connecticut College
- Greenwich High School
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Fernando Espuelas’s Summary
Fernando Espuelas is a leading advocate of empowering Latinos through technology and information. Recognized as one of the Internet's pioneers by the New York Times, Harvard University and multiple media across the world, Espuelas has been at the forefront of online communities and social networks.
Espuelas founded StarMedia, the first multi-platform digital media company for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking people worldwide. StarMedia transcended national barriers, becoming the most recognized pan-Latin new media brand, eventually serving 25 million people per month. Espuelas went on to raise $500 million dollars for StarMedia in a combination of private and public offerings, including raising the first dollar of venture funding and the first IPO for a Latin Internet company.
The rise of the company was chronicled in the Harvard University Business School case called StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution. StarMedia’s market capitalization reached $3.8 billion dollars and is today France Telecom's market leading Internet operation in the Spanish-speaking world.
As the Founder of VOY, Espuelas created a culturally relevant community that connects today's generation of Latinos. VOY has attracted millions of users-- Forrester Research's study of Hispanic Social Networking, published in June of 2007, ranked VOY's portals as the leading Latin pure-play social network in the United States.
Espuelas' pioneering development of the Latin Internet earned him worldwide recognition. Time magazine honored him as one of the “Leaders of the Millennium,” and he was named a “2000 All-Star” business leader by Crain’s New York Business magazine. The World Economic Forum includes him among its "Global Leaders of Tomorrow," and he was also a recipient of Latin Trade Magazine’s Bravo award for CEO of the Year. In 2007, he was named a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
For more information, visit www.espuelas.com
