DamianVoltes.com

Damian Voltes is the founder and CEO of Patagonia Ventures (www.patagoniaventures.com) a Venture Capital firm focused in Latin America

Previously, he founded Digital Ventures, Directa Network, Performa Network, Afiliados Hispanos and InZearch all online advertising companies acquired by FOX in July 2007. He served as Co-Managing Director and VP Global Business Development on the post-aquisition period until February 2009.

Damian is a serial entrepreneur and also an angel investor. 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) and Unisys Sudamericana (IT). Currently, he participates in the Business Angels Club of IAE/Universidad Austral investing in seed stage companies.

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, IAA, IAB, Online Marketing Europe, OMD, 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 36 years old, married since 2001 to Yamila and has a 3-year old son, Federico.

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