Santiago Siri
Bilingual Bachelor in Exact Sciences (English & Spanish) from St Brendan's College. Founder at Popego Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://blog.popego.com |
| Skills: | Business, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Spanish |
| Location: | Palo Alto |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | application, design, development, semantic web |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Popego Inc. |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | January 2007 - Present |
| Description: | We create AI algorithms and innovative interfaces to deliver a more personal and meaningful web.
Seed funded by Aconcagua Ventures and considered among the 50 best startups of 2008 by TechCrunch, we launched our public beta in September '08. |
| Employer: | PalermoValley.com |
| Position: | Meme Replicator |
| Time period: | February 2008 - July 2008 |
| Description: | What began as a simple message on Twitter baptizing a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires as "Palermo Valley" due to the high concentration of technology statups; ended up becoming a social event for developers, entrepreneurs and investors of the local web scene. |
| Employer: | Three Melons |
| Position: | Game Oracle |
| Time period: | December 2005 - February 2007 |
| Description: | Creative Director of the game development team helping to innovate the gaming language for advergames and original productions.
Disney, Coca Cola, Sony, AT&T, Movistar and Cisco were some of the clients we have worked with. |
| Employer: | Gameloft |
| Position: | Game Designer |
| Time period: | May 2005 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Contributed in the foundation of Gameloft's studio at Buenos Aires with more than 100 developers and designed game ideas for mobiles. |
| Employer: | Evoluxion |
| Position: | Founder & Director |
| Time period: | August 2002 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Founded one of the pioneering game development companies of Argentina and directed the
production of Football Deluxe, the first game to get a worldwide distribution deal from my country. |
| Employer: | E-mind Latinamerica |
| Position: | Game Designer |
| Time period: | June 2001 - February 2002 |
| Description: | Designed and coded games for the website of TV network for kids "Magic Kids"
(www.magic-kids.com) |
| Employer: | Asociación de Desarrolladores de Videojuegos Argentina |
| Position: | Founder & Board Member |
| Time period: | May 2001 - March 2008 |
| Description: | Instrumental in establishing a game development industry in Argentina. Worked organizing the Argentine Videogame Expo (EVA - www.adva.com.ar/eva/) and the Argentine Game Coding Contest (CODEAR - www.adva.com.ar/CODEAR).
Represented the voice of the game development community to the local press. |
| Employer: | Amarata.com |
| Position: | Web Designer |
| Time period: | June 1999 - October 1999 |
| Description: | Amarata (a.k.a. Pampa Shop) was a "dot com" for corporate and wedding gifts. As an enthusiast web developer still in high school, my cousin Francisco Okecki (founder) invited me to do some prototypes of the website. I got to learn some valuable lessons about entrepreneurship. |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Traveling, books, films, music and games.
Some examples: San Francisco, Borges, Kubrick, Lennon and Will Wright. |
| Awards: | TechCrunch50 Startup in 2008 (Internet Industry, with Popego).
Ojo de Iberoamerica Award for Interactive Videogame 2007 (Advertising Industry, with Three Melons) Bronze FIAP Award for Best Online Game 2007 (Advertisting Industry, with Three Melons) Top 5 conference on Serious Games Summit during the Game Developers Conference 2007: "A Practical View on Interactive Storytelling". Buenos Aires Government Grant for Innovation and Design 2006 (Design Industry, with Three Melons) Sapo Award for Best Argentine Game of 2004 (Game Industry, with Evoluxion) |
Santiago's Startups (1)
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Popego, Inc.
Popego automatically generates an interest profile based on your current online activity (like the videos you watch on YouTube or your blog posts). Then it uses that interest profile to filter the web and bring meaningful updates about friends & news
Santiago's Contacts (4)
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Richard Monté
American-Argentine, 32, working hard to create disruptive companies in different parts of the world while finding great food in the process. Streema is my current obsession.
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Klaus Gasser
Tallinn University of Technology-International Business, Post Diploma- Security Manager Junior, High School Italy-Business Management and Accounting, Journeyman Italy-Interior Architecture. Creative Talent. Instigator of zsaqa.com
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