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Marcus Dantus
Director Wayra Mexico; MIT NextLab Industry Fellow
Marcus began his career building IT Ventures since 1994. His experience includes building the first regional Internet community in Mexico (Mexico.com) being a pioneer in E-commerce in Latin America (Latin American Telecom), deploying the first Voice Portal in the Hispanic world (Simitel) and achieving the first spinoff in Silicon Valley from a Mexican technology developer (Peerant).
Mr. Dantus then crossed over to the life sciences space as CEO of Innovamedica, a research and development firm specializing in medical devices. There he funded Abdeo Medical (Innovamedica’s counterpart in the US) and Critical Perfusion, a spin-off from one of Innovamedica’s technologies.
After Innovamedica and Abdeo were acquired by a VC fund Mexico, Marcus went on to teach entrepreneurship at CENTRO, Mexico’s Top Design and Creative Arts University. At CENTRO, Marcus also headed the entrepreneur institute.
In July this year, Marcus was recruited from CENTRO as head of Wayra Mexico, Telefonica’s Tech Startup Accelerator.
Marcus is a recognized entrepreneur in Mexico and the US and has received multiple awards including Intel’s Technology prize in 2004 with Simitel and in 2008 with Innovamedica. He was selected an Endeavor entrepreneur in 2003 and continues to be very active in the organization.
Mr. Dantus holds a BA in communications from the University of Pennsylvania, (1989) and a BA in Business Technology (honors) from the ITESM.
Director, CLI of LOGyCA; MIT NextLab Industry Fellow
Isabel Agudelo is the Director of the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI) of LOGyCA, a consulting and training firm in Bogota, Colombia. Within CLI her responsibilities include managing the outreach of the center related to CLI Corporate and Academic partners in the Latin-American region. She also leads sustainability, mobile and supply chain strategy research projects. For five years, Isabel was involved in training and consulting projects in warehouse automation, warehouse layout design, collaboration and logistics benchmarking in GS1 Colombia / LOGyCA. She also has five years of work experience for a fertilizers distributor for the Colombian coffee growing sector. She is an Industrial Engineer from Javeriana University (Cali, Colombia). She has an MBA from Los Andes University (Bogota, Colombia) and a Master degree in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (MLOG) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). Currently, CLI is hosting NextLab in Colombia. CLI is the member for Latin-America of the MIT-CTL Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) network.
Alexandra Pomares
Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; MIT NextLab Academic Fellow
Dr. Alexandra Pomares is an assistant professor and researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia). Her current research focus is on data management in distributed contexts including the tasks of integration, querying, analysis and enrichment of data. Currently she leads research initiatives on data mining and data integration in the health sector and military sector. She recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble (Grenoble, France) and from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Her educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá , Colombia) and M.S. in Computer Science from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).
Juan Pablo Garzón
Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; MIT NextLab Academic Fellow
Juan Pablo Garzón is an assistant professor and researcher at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia). He is interested in the areas of: distributed Systems, computer networks and mobile technology. His research interests are multiagent systems (MAS), mobile technology and software for transportation planning. His educational Background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería (Bogotá, Colombia) and a M.S. in Computer Science from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).
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