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Rafael Giraldo is our Chief Executive Officer.
Mr
Giraldo's European upbringing, South
American legal experience and successful entrepreneurial endeavors
in the United States uniquely qualify him as the leader of the
latinet.com team.
Mr. Giraldo has implemented subsidiary operations for several
U.S. companies in Colombia and Uruguay
including UPS. As Executive Director of the
Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce in Miami from
1994-1995, Mr. Giraldo coordinated
numerous promotional events including presidential breakfasts,
economic development roundtable discussions and
trade and investment seminars with
corporate executives and foreign dignitaries.
In the area of
telecommunications, Mr. Giraldo directed the Miami commercial
operations of MICL, a Chilesat and
Texcom S.A. subsidiary. During his days at MICL,
Mr. Giraldo acquired important satellite
telecommunications and network experience providing
U.S. and Latin American companies dedicated satellite circuits for
the transmission of voice and data. As
the founder of Miami-based latinet.com, Mr.Giraldo has over
five years experience in the development of sophisticated Internet
solutions for businesses, governments and
international trade agencies.
Timothy Frank is our Chief Operations Officer.
From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Frank owned and
operated a large Miami printing and copying firm where his list of
clients included Barnett Bank, First Union,
Merrill Lynch, and Holland &
Knight among others. For the past
ten years, Mr. Frank has focused primarily on electronic digital
imaging and network solutions for clients like
the Greater Miami Convention and
Visitors Bureau and
the City of Coral Gables. Today, Mr. Frank programs using a
variety of software packages across
multiple platforms.
Juan Rafael Sierra is our Chief Technology Officer.
Mr. Sierra has more than thirteen years
experience programming specialized software applications in
Windows, C, Assembler, Pascal, Visual Basic and
Java. Since 1995, Mr. Sierra has
designed, launched and maintained the following sites: elcolombiano.com,
medellin.eureka.com.co,
and lujan.edu.co. In addition, he recently worked as a
consultant for geo.net.co. For
the past four years, Mr. Sierra has also served as a University
Professor teaching programming classes
at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, the Universidad San
Buenaventura and the CEIPA.
Patrick Archer is our Chief Marketing Officer, U.S.
Mr. Archer graduated from Washington
& Lee University in 1993 earning B.A. degrees in both
Economics and Spanish. Mr. Archer was a
Commercial Loan Officer in the Public Finance Division
of Wachovia Bank in Atlanta from 1993-1996. After
completing a year of graduate study in
Economics at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Mr.
Archer returned to the U.S. to pursue a
joint Master™s degree in Business Administration and Latin
American Studies at the University of Florida,
where he was the recipient of a full merit scholarship
and concentrated in Marketing and E-Commerce.
Juan Carlos Zapata is
our Community Relations Director. Mr.
Zapata currently serves as President and
Executive Director of C.A.S.A., Inc., a nonprofit social
service agency with operations in Dade
and Broward Counties. Mr. Zapata frequently participates in local
radio and television programs and plays an
active political role monitoring Miami-Dade County
committees, commission meetings and state legislative issues. latinet.com
benefits from Mr. Zapata's
reputation in the Miami area as a knowledgeable political
consultant and active coordinator of
private/public sector partnerships in Dade County.
Laureano Licona is
our Director of Operations, Europe.
Mr. Licona brings fifteen years of marketing
and communications experience to our organization. From 1986 to
1993, Mr. Licona served as an Account
Executive for several different marketing firms in Barcelona
handling such multinational accounts as Bayer
Industrial , Bestfood España, Braun, Grundig,
Leonisa Internacional, Grupo Zurich, Microsoft España, Purina, and
Nike. Mr.Licona is the Director of Barcelona marketing
firm, Biosfera Comunicación and General Manager
of Publinet Europe, a Spanish web advertising firm.
Luisa Saldarriaga is our Chief Latin American Operations
Officer. Ms. Saldarriaga earned a
dual degree in Graphic and Industrial Design from the Universidad
Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia. Currently,
Ms.Saldarriaga presides over the content acquisition operations of
latinet.com. Ms.Saldarriaga has proven abilities as an
effective administrator of professionals and resources
and is uniquely qualified given her past experience with Internet
marketing in Latin America.
Catalina González is our Latin American Content Editor.
From
1991 to 1992,Ms. González studied Journalism at the Universidad
Complutense in Madrid, Spain. Ms.
González graduated with dual degrees in Journalism and Communications
from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín Colombia
in 1999. Prior to joining latinet.com in
1999, Ms. González was a Publication Director with
Prensa Alterna S.A. in Medellín. Ms. Gonzalez™ fluency
in four languages assures us that our
Spanish content will be presented in a universally acceptable
format in Latin America.
Lina Zapata is our Spanish Publishing Director.
Ms. Zapata is uniquely qualified for the
Electronic Publishing position given her formal Marketing training
and recent management experience in
several Latin American Internet projects. Upon
graduating with a degree in Law from the Universidad Pontificia
Bolivariana in Colombia, Ms. Zapata was
chosen to be Director of Marketing for Supernet
- TICSA Internet.
Ms. Zapata has also served as a Marketing Advisor for Colombia's Asociacion
La Frontera for
the past two years.
John Duque is our Director of Sales, Latin America.
Mr. Duque brings fifteen years of
management and international marketing experience to the latinet.com
team. Mr. Duque has been involved in the
computer industry since 1988 when he was
the Miami-based Sales Manager for P.C.
Express International coordinating
the export, sale and distribution of laptops, software and
computer peripherals in Latin America.
Mr. Duque has operated his own international consulting company,
JJD Trading, since 1996.
Raul Ortiz is our Web Design Director.
Mr. Ortiz graduated with a degree in Graphic
Design from Medellín's Project Design University in 1996 and a
degree in Marketing from the Universidad
Pontificia Bolivariana in 1998. Since 1996, Mr.
Ortiz has worked as a Graphic Designer and Web Designer for
several Colombian multimedia companies
including Linea Net, Revista Fotoclasificados and
Geo-Net. Mr.
Ortiz has been a key player in the development of various
e-commerce and media web sites including
Bancafe.com and ElColombiano.com.
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