Andres Barreto

Current

• President at Pulsosocial
• President + CXO at Socialatom
• CEO at Orgpoint

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Past

• Co-Founder + CXO/COO at Escape Media Group D/B/A Grooveshark.com
• Co-Founder at CampusOpenCourse.com
• Digital Media Marketing at Amtel

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Education

• Florida International University - College of Business Administration
• University of Florida

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Connections

426 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Twitter
• Grooveshark
• Pulsosocial

Andres Barreto’s Summary

Founder and President of PulsoSocial.com, online publication and community that reports the latest on technology, social media and entrepreneurship from Latin America.

Previously, founder Grooveshark.com, an online music sharing community, and Socialatom, a consulting firm for social media marketing and engineering, business development and international marketing that helps U.S. companies reach latin america and viceversa.

My experience is in building new businesses and products of large impact, user experience design, community building, social media marketing, social application development, public relations and social entrepreneurship.

I am a frugal adventure traveler, salsa dancer and aspiring DJ/producer.

Andres Barreto’s Specialties:

Product development, international and social media marketing, public relations, user experience design, private equity.

Andres Barreto’s Experience

• President

  Pulsosocial

  (Internet industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  Pulsosocial is the leading publication and community in the area of technology and entrepreneurship from Latin America. It’s readers include the most influential latin american journalists, early adopters, bloggers, entrepreneurs, investors and web professionals.
  
  We have journalists and bloggers publishing high quality original content with journalists and bloggers in Miami, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina
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  Pulsosocial es la publicación y comunidad lider en Latinoamerica sobre tecnologia y emprendimiento.
  
  Entre sus lectores se encuentran las personas mas influyentes de Latinoamerica; periodistas, "early adopters", "bloggers", emprendedores, inversionistas y profesionales de Internet.
  
  Tenemos periodistas y bloggers publicando contenido original de alta calidad con presencia en Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Estados Unidos (Miami), y Peru
  
  (A socialatom company)

• President + CXO

  Socialatom

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Consulting: Create custom solutions that work in harmony with your development process and current marketing practices to move forward into the social media space.
  
  Web Application Development
  
  * Information architecture
  * Interaction and visual design
  * Front-end development
  * Back-end development
  * Usability testing
  
  Social Media Marketing & Distribution: Expand and engage your audience by distributing your content, services or product through social media channels or build your own social media platform for your customers to share opinions, ideas or experiences around your media, content, or company.
  
  Enterprise 2.0: implement and customize web applications designed to improve collaboration and communication in your company.
  
  New Ventures: help in the startup process as far as the creation of prototypes for your product, service or web application and establishing public relation strategies to draw in capital and users.
  http://socialatom.com

• CEO

  Orgpoint

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

• Co-Founder + CXO/COO

  Escape Media Group D/B/A Grooveshark.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  Grooveshark.com - online music sharing community where users get rewarded for sharing.
  
  As a founder I had to wear many hats, but mostly I focused on coordinating the areas of software development, design and marketing.
  
  • Web App Development
  
  • User experience design ( Information architecture, wireframes, visual design, usability )
  
  • Marketing ( social media marketing, international marketing, community building, market research )

• Co-Founder

  CampusOpenCourse.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

• Digital Media Marketing

  Amtel

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

  January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)

  Creation and consulting of Corporate website, identity and digital marketing media.

Andres Barreto’s Education

• Florida International University - College of Business Administration

  Marketing , Economics, Accounting, Photography

• University of Florida

  Entrepreneurship + Political Science ,

  Research:
  
  • Impact of social media technology on social and political movements
  
  • Economic development of third world countries and how they could take advantage of an information or service based economy as an alternative means to develop economically to raw materials and manufacturing.
  
  In addition to my majors, I have taken courses in Engineering, Law (computers + business), 3D Animation, Sociology and Anthropology.

Additional Information

Andres Barreto’s Websites:

• Twitter
• Grooveshark
• Pulsosocial

Andres Barreto’s Interests:

social technology, international politics, history, design, cinema, ethnomusicology, salsa

Andres Barreto’s Groups:

FOWA, SXSW, BarCamp

•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    InterAmerican Science and Technology Research Foundation (ISTRF) (SM)
•    Latin America's Venture Network (SM)
•    Latinmanagers
•    PHP language
•    Music & Marketing
•    Outsourcing to Latin America
•    South Florida Interactive Marketing Association
•    AMMB - Associação de Mobile Marketing do Brasil
•    Advertising Professionals
•    Start Me Up Argentina
•    Palermo Valley
•    Latin America Mobile Network (+1000)
•    BarCamp Orlando
•    CakePHP Developers
•    MusicBiz
•    Refresh Miami
•    jQuery
•    Online Marketing Latam
•    Tech Journalist Worldwire
•    Africa 2.0
•    CAUSA • Colombian Alliance in the United States
•    EMPRENDEDORES LATINOAMERICA
•    Latin America 2.0
•    Latin America-USA Venture Support Network
•    Social Media Club South Florida
•    Marketing 2.0 en Español
•    Latin America Network
•    CLUB DE EMPRENDEDORES LATINOS
•    TequilaValley
•    MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida
•    Trabajador Web
•    Lima Valley
•    Exponet
•    ZappingDigital Latam
•    SMLatam

Andres Barreto’s Honors:

Winner Best Category in Alternative Energy - Oracle International Web Design Competition - (California 2004)
Winner Web Challenge - UF Association of Digital Arts and Media - (Florida 2005)
Protagonista - El Tiempo (Colombia 2007)
Finalist - YCombinator (California 2008)
Exponet Speaker - Prensa Libre (Guatemala 2009)
Innovadores - Television Nacional (Chile 2009)

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