36 Facts About Fernando Espuelas

Fernando Espuelas was born on August 6,1966 and is an American entrepreneur, author, and journalist.

Fernando Espuelas is the co-founder and first CEO of Starmedia, the first pan-Latin Internet portal, launched in 1996 and now part of Orange, France Telecom's Internet services company.

Fernando Espuelas is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Fernando Espuelas has been part of the "power-list" of such diverse media as The Hollywood Reporter The Industry Standard, Latino Leaders Magazine, Red Herring Magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter, Hispanic Business Magazine, CNN, Upside Magazine, and Hispanic Magazine.

Fernando Espuelas was named "Immigrant of the Day" by Immigration Daily in 2008.

Fernando Espuelas was the co-founder and Chairman of the StarMedia Foundation which, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank and Microsoft, built technology training schools in poor neighborhoods in Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay.

Fernando Espuelas served on the board of directors of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, operators of PBS' New York flagship television station Thirteen and sister station WLIW, as well as on the Board of Trustees of Connecticut College.

In 2009, Fernando Espuelas became a spokesman for the Los Angeles Parent's Union, known as Parent Revolution, a non-profit group that seeks to reform public education across the United States.

In 2010, Fernando Espuelas was elected to the Board of Directors of Parent Revolution.

In 2008, Fernando Espuelas created Radio Fernando Espuelas, a daily bilingual talkshow broadcast on the Univision Radio Network.

Fernando Espuelas writes for the Huffington Post, The Hill, and CNN and is a frequent commentator on television, such as CBS News, radio on Univision and NPR, as well in print across the world.

Fernando Espuelas was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Espuelas and his mother escaped political and economic turmoil, arriving in the US in 1976 with just $100.

At Greenwich High, Fernando Espuelas was the President of the Debate Team, the Connecticut State Champion debater in 1982, and the Chairman of the Political Action Club.

Espuelas hosted the local Public-access television cable TV show "The Bottom Line with Fernando Espuelas", interviewing Greenwich personalities.

Fernando Espuelas worked a series of jobs while going to junior high and high school: gardener, gas station attendant, Woolworth's clerk, restaurant worker; movie usher; newspaper delivery boy, messenger, Chinese food delivery person, pet shop cleaner, baby sitter, electronics board assembler in an electronic church organ manufacturing company, clerk at a soda fountain; greeting card salesman, and as an intern at Philip Morris' headquarters in New York.

In 1988, Fernando Espuelas graduated "with distinction" from Connecticut College with a degree in history.

Fernando Espuelas served as the President of Branford House, as well as on several college-wide faculty-student-administration committees, including the College's Education Committee.

Fernando Espuelas was later elected to the board of trustees of Connecticut College.

In 1996, Fernando Espuelas envisioned the portal that would "unite" Latin America: Starmedia.

Fernando Espuelas later launched Voy, a multi-platform media company focused on young Latino consumers.

Ironically, Fernando Espuelas erred in underestimating the one medium he should have understood best, the Internet.

Espuelas created in 2008 The Fernando Espuelas Show, a drive-time, daily radio talkshow on Univision Radio Los Angeles, the nation's second largest radio market and biggest market for Latino radio.

Fernando Espuelas is a political analyst and social commentator on television, Internet and in print.

Fernando Espuelas was CEO of American Latinos United, a political SuperPac created to drive Latino voting during the 2020 elections.

Fernando Espuelas was named in 2017 Co-Chairman of Mercury Public Affairs in Washington DC.

Fernando Espuelas created, hosts and is the managing editor of his eponymously named radio talk show on Univision America Network.

Fernando Espuelas emerged as a vocal defender of President Obama on immigration, often countering criticisms from within the Latino community.

Also in 2012, The Fernando Espuelas Show was re-launched as part of the new talk-radio Univision America Network.

Round Table- Online Pioneers: The Buzz Never Stops", Fernando Espuelas explained his approach: "I spent a lot of time learning how Winston Churchill ran the Second World War.

Thirty-three-year-old StarMedia co-founder Fernando Espuelas was the toast of "Silicon Alley" and a recognized hero throughout Latin America.

Fernando Espuelas created a communications culture to connect StarMedia's 18 offices in 12 countries.

Fernando Espuelas has worked much of his adult life in Latin America, but when wooing investors, he's all Wall Street.

Fernando Espuelas went on to raise hundreds of millions more capital over the next two years.

In 2011, Fernando Espuelas settled the suit "without admitting or denying the allegations in the amended complaint".

In 2012, Fernando Espuelas was named one of "The Nation's 100 Most Influential Hispanics" by Poder Magazine.

Fernando Espuelas was named a "Latin American Leader of the Internet" by CNN en Espanol.