Andres Barreto is an entrepreneur originally from Colombia. He is a board member at Pulsosocial, Latin America’s leading media company with an audience of developers, investors and managers in Miami, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Argentina.
In Latin America, Andres founded Socialatom, which invests and supports tech entrepreneurs. With offices in New York, Miami, Mexico City, Bogota, Santiago and Buenos Aires, Socialatom Group ‘Owned & Operated’ companies contribute to economic development through technology and entrepreneurship.
As a founding fellow of Non-Profit Coderise, Andres helps to empower high-school students with not just access to technology, but with in-demand skills to dive into tech innovation.
Andres has appeared in BusinessWeek‘s Top 25 Under 25, MIT Tech Review‘s Innovators under 35, and Inc Magazine’s Top 30 under 30.
He is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship in developing nations and has participated in conferences throughout Latin America and the U.S.
Andres is a co-founder of Grooveshark, a leading music streaming app, and Onswipe, which aims to make it easier for a publisher of any size to make their existing content an app-like experience in the browser.
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