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Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz

Co-Founder & CTO at Nexar Inc.

Antarctica

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Work Experience

2015

  • Janitor, Co-Founder and CTO

    2015

  • Board Advisor (C2SMART)

    2018

    Working with C2SMART, a leading US DOT Tier 1 University Transportation Center

  • Venture Partner

    2014

2007 - 2015

  • Senior Fellow (SVP)

    2013 - 2015

    From zero to one. Create and lead Yahoo's new home page and native advertising platform.

  • VP, Global Head of Advertising Targeting & Personalization

    2012 - 2013

    Heading ad targeting, partner targeting, smart ads, content personalization and mobile platform at Yahoo!

  • VP, Architect Fellow

    2009 - 2012

    Lead architect for Yahoo!'s cloud & platform group

  • Chief Architect, Platform

    2009 - 2009

    Architect for Yahoo's consumer platforms

  • Chief Architect, International Engineering

    2007 - 2009

    Chief architect for Yahoo's engineering outside of USA

2007 - 2009

  • Founder

    2007 - 2009

    Onesoup was a mobile startup providing transparent messaging services to phones via OMA IMPS (acquired by Synchronica Plc).

  • Research Affiliate, Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab

    1998 - 2007

    Large scale parallel and distributed computing for traffic estimation and prediction using statistical learning and micro-simulation techniques.

  • Associate Director

    2005 - 2007

    Enterprise Architect. Responsible for defining the technology roadmap, infrastructure and operations management practices.

2004 - 2007

  • Co-Founder

    2004 - 2007

    YamiGo was a mobile messaging startup with over 150,000 registered users (exited).

1997 - 2007

  • Founder, Coder, Cleaner, Janitor

    1997 - 2007

    Freelance and open source software development. Key projects: in-memory petri net. Bytecode compiled XSL. Java Message Service. JVM/CLR bridge. Event-driven instant messaging server.

1998 - 2005

  • Manager

    1998 - 2005

    Initially affiliated with the Center for Strategic Research and subsequently part of Accenture's Global Architecture & Core Technologies group. Specialized in mobile applications. Key ventures developed: Accenture Claim Components, Meridea Financial Services. Worked on assignments in France, Finland, Philippines, US, and Denmark.