Fernando Espuelas

Fernando Espuelas (born August 6, 1966) is an American entrepreneur, author, and journalist.

Espuelas is one of the pioneers of the consumer Internet. He is the co-founder (along with Jack Chen) 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.

By the year 2000, Starmedia was the world's leading Latin portal, serving over 25 million Spanish and Portuguese speakers every month across Latin markets in America and Europe, making it one of the top sites by audience size in the world.

Espuelas is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

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

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. Espuelas served on the board of directors of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, operators of PBS' New York flagship television station Thirteen (WNET) and sister station WLIW, as well as on the Board of Trustees of Connecticut College. In 2009, Espuelas became a spokesman for the Los Angeles Parent's Union, also known as Parent Revolution, a non-profit group that seeks to reform public education across the United States. In 2010, Espuelas was elected to the Board of Directors of Parent Revolution.

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

Espuelas also 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. Provided by Wikipedia