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8 2 0 19 E N D E AVO R O U T L I E R S EM I LIANO AB R AMZON Nearpod ERIC SANTOS RD Station FELI PE H EN RIQU EZ Nazca Groupon Peixe I grew up in Buenos Aires Argentina. I've always loved playing sports. I've played competitive Tennis, Soccer and Golf. I graduated with a master in Economics and I started my first company at the age of 19 while attending college. My first corporate job was in Accenture, where a learned a lot. In the year 2000 I participated in a .com start-up in Latin America, which took me to live in Brasil for 2 years. That start- up had a successful exit before the crush. In 2002 I came to US to get an MBA at UNC Chapel Hill and stayed in the US since then. After the MBA I worked for one of the largest real estate residential developers, Pulte Homes and learned a ton about the real estate industry. In 2011 I started Nearpod together with my old time friends Guido Kovalskys and Felipe Sommer. I had worked with them before for many years in other endeavors. I felt in love with my job, the educational industry and learned that it is possible to have a for profit mission driven company. The positive impact we are having in millions of students every day is one of the things I value most about what I am doing now. I have married my high school sweet hart, I have two wonderful kids (Tommy, 11 and Naomi 7) and we live in Aventura, Florida. I'm an entrepreneur that seems to have figured out that his mission in the world is to help other entrepreneurs and their companies grow through predictable and scalable processes and technology. I do this by investing a lot of time to learn from others who are best-in-class in their fields and from people who are "in the arena" going through similar challenges. Then I share what I know and practice back to the world, trying to inspire and educate people that I have the fortune of gathering around me. In Endeavor I found my identity and can say that since I am part of the network I can say that I´m more happy. The transition from a small company in my country to a company with Latin American scale to then make my investment funds with the purpose of always giving the best of me to increase the impact on the ecosystem of which I am a part. It makes me happy to help other entrepreneurs to make their dreams come true through their companies and through these improve our countries.