Alexander Torrenegra is a Colombian-American entrepreneur, inventor, and investor. He founded multiple companies including Torre, Voice123, and Bunny Studio. He is also one of the "shark" investors on the Sony's reality television series, Shark Tank Colombia. He was featured in MIT's list of Innovators Under 35 in 2012.

Early life and education

Torrenegra grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1993, he founded Apache A-X Cybernetic Enterprises Limited at the age of 14. He attended La Salle University, Colombia and Florida International University. He graduated from Miami Dade College with a degree in Computer Science and is part of the Stanford University Leadership Program.

In 1998, Torrenegra moved to the United States. He met his wife, Tania Zapata, who was a voice actress, in Miami, Florida.[2] In 2000, they cofounded Torrenegra Labs. Torrenegra and his wife founded Voice123, which applied the concept of reverse auctions to the voiceover industry, in 2003. By 2007, the company passed $1 million in sales in 2007, and had approximately 150,000 voice actors registered and over 75,000 agency clients by 2016. In 2008, Torrenegra founded LetMeGo, a company focused on hotels competing for bookings. The company closed in 2011.

Torrenegra, his wife, and Lucho Molina founded Bunny Studio in 2012 with the launch of VoiceBunny, then renamed Bunny Studio, an API for professional human voices.

In 2013, he was part of a delegation of immigrant-entrepreneurs that met with President Barack Obama. He also works to improve government support for innovation in Colombia.

Dave Martinez, CEO and Founder of Dave Martinez Ventures:

Dave Martinez has been in the field of social media creation and production for more than 30 years and has worked in many different fields of media culture. Dave has always been providing the best culture media for musicians and businesses throughout South America as well as globally with great success since the beginning of time on a global market. As the founder and CEO of Dave Martinez Ventures, Dave developed and managed strategic networks and partnerships experienced in the fields that Dave Martinez Ventures provides, incorporating his extensive development history and statistics of facts. Dave Martinez Ventures was born and has been stable in the Bay Area, the Golden City of Technology. Allied in web development and business development with a humanity centered ideology and presenting a responsible attitude at all times makes Dave Martinez Ventures unique in the tech community.

Mission and vision:

Dave Martinez Ventures specializes in partnerships in the technological international field. We partner with startups and entrepreneurs from all over the world with high growth potential as well as the youth of today. We focus on empowering the young youth and women to reach a new perspective on the ecoscience environment and technological world that matters for a better tomorrow and the new generation. 

Karen Montalva es Ingeniero Comercial y una emprendedora por naturaleza. A los 22 años inicia su propia Compañía de Consultoría en Marketing para grandes empresas, la que en pocos años se transforma en un referente en Chile.. Durante los últimos 3 años, Karen Montalva comparte su valiosa experiencia en dos grandes temáticas: BRANDING y VENTAS y lo hace creando experiencias de aprendizaje de ALTO IMPACTO para ejecutivos, líderes de organizaciones, empresarios y emprendedores. Algunas de sus creaciones: JUNGLA DE VENTAS (el programa que potencia las ventas); CLÍNICA DE VENTAS (el Boot Camp para prospectar clientes reales, diseñado para ejecutivos comerciales en los mundos B2B, B2C); MEMORY! DISEÑA TU EXPERIENCIA (el workshop que enseña a diseñar experiencias memorables marketeables y vendibles), #YOVENDO (la conferencia que enciende, invita y eleva la disposición de los participantes para la prospección activa de clientes). En sólo el 2018 más de 4200 personas pasaron por sus programas de entrenamiento en 26 ciudades y 5 Países (Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Costa Rica y Bolivia

Chileno. Speaker y estratega digital con más de 200 conferencias en 2 continentes, 16 países y 70 ciudades. Fundador de Flumarketing.com y Director en 13Redes. Autor de libros como CONEXTRATEGIA y CONEXUMIDOR. Creador del modelo El Calentamiento Global Digital. Columnista en Entrepreneur, México. Consultor asociado en Brain&Brand, y TWGroup.

En sus conferencias, talleres y seminarios por Latinoamérica y El Caribe han participado ejecutivos y gerentes de: Banco Santander, Itaú, ANTEL, BBVA, HSBC, BROU, BPS, Banco de Costa Rica, Banco República del Uruguay, NISSAN, Walmart, Cisco, Amazon Web Services, Aeroméxico, Lenovo, Microsoft, KFC, Datsun, Scotiabank, Banco Nacional de Panamá, North Face, Hotel Sortis, Banco Promerica, Instituto Méxicano de Teleservicios, Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago, CChC, Pfizer, Banco de Chile, Empresas COPEC, entre otras.

Ha dado conferencias a más de 100 instituciones y universidades en Latinoamérica. Profesor invitado en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.

Reconocido con el Premio Discover España 2018 como una de las 15 personas más influyentes del mercadeo digital de habla hispana entre 10.000 candidatos. Seleccionado entre los 50 Top Marketing Professors on Twitter 2017 por Social Media Marketing Magazine, EE.UU. Entre los 100 Marketeros en Twitter más Influyentes del Mundo 2016 por Science of Digital Marketing, EE.UU. Entre Los 10 Gurús del Marketing Hispano 2018 por SoloMarketing, España. Seleccionado entre los 30 Most Influential College Professors on Twitter por Accredited Online College, (2013), EE.UU. Considerado entre los 19 College Professors Worth Following on Twitter por Associates Degrees, (2010), EE.UU.

Asesor en 13 rubros de la economía. Profesor de MBA en Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, México y Bolivia.

Phil Chen treats entrepreneurial and venture investing endeavors as liberal art pursuits. In 2005, Phil began his career at an e-book start-up which culminated in the Alex Reader, that eventually became the Barnes & Noble Nook. Two years later, Phil joined HTC as product manager, building the first android phones on earth and launching the Facebook phone, the only phone co-branded with a social media internet company that also became the QQ/Tencent and Weibo phone in China. In 2015, Phil also joined Horizons Ventures as Advisor where he served as board director/observer for fifteen companies globally.

Gabriel is definitely a serial and cross-cutting entrepreneur. During his career he has led various businesses in the electronics, food, restaurants and Internet industries. Among the Startups founded by Gabriel are: DreamLine, Snapp, Tambo and Panko restaurant chains, and also achieved an important exit with The FoodLinks, a company acquired in 2012 by the Peruvian bank BCP. Since 2011, he has been President of CuponaNc LATAM, the most successful e-commerce company created in Chile.

Gabriel is an Industrial and Electrical Engineer, in addiNon to a postgraduate degree in exponenNal technologies from Singularity University. His career has always been linked to the world of technologies and innovaNon, being his early job at Intel in California a Npping point from where he begins to develop his vision of how to impact and accelerate the development of new businesses and contribute to the growth of LATAM economies by encouraging the emergence of Startups leveraged in the digital world and other emerging technologies.

Regarding the Entrepreneurship and InnovaNon Ecosystem, he has collaborated as an advisor for dozens of entrepreneurs and acNvely parNcipated in the development of the main LaNn American acceleraNon and incubaNon plaVorms for Startups. He is currently Board Member for Chile Global Angels (LATAM's most recognized angel investors network), Mentor for Founder InsNtute and advisor to Board at Mustakis FoundaNon.

As for his role as a speaker, Gabriel has coined a straighVorward and simple style to convey technical and complex concepts to all types of audiences, from business execuNves, entrepreneurs, university students and even covering the world of social organizaNons, poliNcal authoriNes, etc. Showing the technological change in the next 5 to 10 years and how it will impact all areas of human endeavor.

Ingeniero Informático, Emprendedor y Conferencista con +10 años de experiencia a nivel mundial.

Profesor Universitario y Consultor de Innovación, Emprendimiento y Tecnologías.

Premio Mejor Desarrollo Tecnológico AIE Chile 2008, Alumni y Premio Mejor Embajador StartUp-Chile 2013. Fundador y CEO de KAPPO Bike, Premio Nacional de Innovación Avonni-TIC (Chile) 2014, Premio Start-Up Favorita del Público LeWEB (Francia) 2014, reconocidos por Tencent (China) como uno de los “14 Proyectos Más Innovadores del Mundo 2015” y premiados por la UNESCO como una de las “10 Innovaciones con más Potencial del Mundo 2015”.

A los 22 años participé activamente en la creación de la tecnología detrás de Google Wallet, luego de haber cumplido un rol fundamental en el área de tecnologías de Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD). Me desempeñé como Gerente de Nuevos Negocios en Kuapay Inc, creando el proyecto “PagoClick” para Copec (tercera compañía de combustible más grande de LATAM) y en el año 2013 fui seleccionado por StartUp-Chile para dictar charlas sobre emprendimiento e innovación por todo Chile. En 2016 me gradué de la Escuela de Negocios de la Universidad de Stanford y, en 2017, fui premiado por el MIT como uno de los “5 Innovadores Visionarios Más Influyentes de Latinoamérica” menores de 35 años.

Innovation | Business Developer | Sales Lead

Profesional de buena experiencia en el área comercial de la industria financiera y tecnológica.

Startup Grind SCL Co-Director

Gran visión de futuro que me permite aplicarla a a consecución de objetivos propuestos.