Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$1,000,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$5,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- PC
- NY
Lists including Fernando
Investments
Work Experience
2019
Managing Partner
2019
BuenTrip Ventures invests in B2B tech startups that solve the biggest issues in Latin America.
2023
Cohort 7 Member
2023
Part of a select group of emerging fund managers building institutional firms.
2023
Board Member
2023
2014
Co-founder, mentor
2014
I try to give back to the entrepreneurial community in Ecuador in my spare time by mentoring tech startup founders through Buen Trip.
2008 - 2019
CTO
2016 - 2019
Define, implement, and manage technology roadmap for world’s leading online publication on Exchange Traded Funds, acquired by Cboe Global Markets in 2016. Lead software development and implementation strategy for development team based in Quito, Ecuador. Set and deliver on yearly tech road map projects and goals, including bi-annual employee reviews. Manage third party vendor relations (AWS, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Google Apps, 8x8, Cloudflare, New Relic, etc.)
Co-founder, CTO
2008 - 2016
Head up Web development for pioneering Index and ETF focused media company, from the company’s office in Quito, Ecuador. Build ETF Analytics product based on proprietary IndexUniverse (ETF.com) ETF classification system and integration to dozens of primary and secondary data sources. Business unit sold to Factset in 2015. Implement digital marketing strategy for Inside ETFs, the world's largest ETF focused conferences in the US and Europe. Business unit sold to Informa, 2015. Manage ad serving systems and operations. Hire and train software engineering, content management, quality assurance, and product development teams in our Quito office. Define and manage email list strategy and list-management platforms. Evaluate, select and migrate to several Content Management System platforms throughout the company's life (Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, etc.). Implement SEO strategy, including automatic article tagging system, automatically built landing pages, etc. Ad sales, client relationship management.
1999 - 2008
Founder, CEO
1999 - 2008
Founded and directed Web development agency with clients in the US, Canada and Ecuador. Sold company to IndexUniverse.com in merger agreement in 2008. Developed and managed web properties for IndexUniverse. Developed websites for Dow Jones Indexes, IndexIQ, Van Eck and other financial institutions through partnership with IndexUniverse.
Founder & CEO
1999 - 2007
Founded Web development agency. Formed Financial Technology and Design Group a joint venture with IndexPublications (IndexUniverse). Designed and developed IndexUniverse.com, Dow Jones Industrial Average Learning Center, HardAssetsInvestor.com...
1997 - 1999
Webmaster
1997 - 1999
Designed and developed a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform for natural resource management in Ecuador. Travelled around the high-lands of Ecuador teaching natural resource specialists how to summarize and sistematize their experiences so they could be shared with others.
1995 - 1997
Webmaster
1995 - 1997
Developed websites for non-profits in Ecuador. Taught HTML.