RSVP: Attending

Country: Argentina

Company: Patagonia Ventures

Category: investor

Bio:

Damian Voltes is the CEO of Patagonia Ventures, an Early Stage Venture Capital firm focused on Latin American markets.

Previously, he founded Digital Ventures, Directa Networks, Performa Networks, Afiliados Hispanos and InZearch all online advertising companies acquired by FOX/News Corp in July 2007. During the post-acquisition period he served as VP of Global Business Development (M&A, Corporate Development and International expansion).

Damian is also a serial entrepreneur. Since 1996, he is involved in the Internet/Online Media Industry. In the past, he founded several companies including: CuponesOnline.com Inc. (Online Sweepstakes), Netkiosk S.A. (Internet Public Kiosks) and Inter-Marketing Group (eBuilder & Hosting).

He also worked in management and marketing positions at Global Mind (Interactive Agency), Datatrak (GPS/AVL) and Unisys Sudamericana (IT).

Currently, he participates as mentor in Endeavor, IAE Business Angels, BID Network, Naves, among others.

Damian also engages not for profit activities. For the past 3 years, he has been teaching ebusiness and entrepreneurship at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), one of the Argentine leading business schools.

He is a frequent speaker at several conferences around the world including Ad:Tech, Ignite, IAA, IAB, Online Marketing Europe, OMD, CACE, Marketing 2.0, AMDIA, among others). He also participates actively in several trade associations and is an active contributor at Fundacion Tzedaka.

Damian holds a Bachelor in Business Administration (Universidad de Belgrano), a MBA (Universidad de Belgrano) and a Postgraduate in Telecommunications (Universidad de San Andres & ITBA).

He is 37 years old, married since 2001 to Yamila and has a 4-year old son, Federico and a 5 months baby, Agustin.

In his spare time, Damian enjoys playing tennis, squash, skiing and blogging at www.damianvoltes.com

Blog: http://damianvoltes.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/damianvoltes

Twitter: voltes