Our Team
Biographies
Mark BonnellCEO & Modyo LeaderPablo CórdovaCFO & Modyo LeaderRodrigo MenchacaModyo Europe Team LeaderAraken LeaoModyo Brazil Team LeaderJose Antonio SilvaPlatform Engineering Team LeaderFelipe RojasCloud Infrastructure Team LeaderCarlos HurtadoAnalytics Team LeaderRoberto RiveraClient Solutions Team LeaderValerie AtkinsonClient Services Team LeaderDaniela ChávezClient Operations Team Leader |
Mark Bonnell
Since December 2007, Mark has been leading Modyo. Mark leads a team of talented, multinational people. Over the past 9 years, Mark has founded 2 companies and serves on the board of directors of these companies. Impirica and Rollermedia.
Previously, Mark was Managing Director of the Internet division for Microforum, a Canadian Public Company that provided internet technology and marketing services to important companies in North America. Prior to Microforum, Mark founded P2P Systems with 2 friends which sold its chat based CRM technology to Microforum.
Mark studied at the University of Utah where he was a 3 time All-American in skiing. Mark holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from McGill University, Canada. Mark's Blog
Pablo Córdova
Since December 2007, Pablo has been leading Modyo together with Mark Bonnell. Both partners have worked together for the past 8 years, period in which they founded and grew two succesfull media companies. In 2003, Pablo invested in Impirica and together with Mark guided Impirica to a leadership position in Targeted Out-Of-Home Media in Chile.
In 2004, with another partner, Pablo and Mark founded Rollermedia (car advertising - outdoor media), a company that continues to grow and now has operations in Chile and Peru. Pablo serves on the Board of Directors of Impirica and Rollermedia. Prior to Impirica, Pablo was leading the institutional asset management division of Larrain Vial, Chile’s premier investment bank. Pablo spent 8 years in the financial sector, working as analyst and then portfolio manager. Pablo has a Degree in Engineering from Universidad Católica de Chile and a Masters of Business Administration from London Business School..
Rodrigo Menchaca
Rodrigo Menchaca leads Modyo Europe based in Barcelona, Spain and works with Mark on global client Social CRM strategies. He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Creativity from Kellog Business School (Northwestern University - USA), a Master in Interactive Advertising and he is finalizing a PH.D in Communications from the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona (Spain). He has extensive experience in digital marketing over the past 13 years having worked with leading brands worldwide (Audi, Coca Cola, Athens Olympic Games, Universal Studios, Movistar, Radio Futuro, Filmax, Nike, MTV, EASY, University of Phoenix and others). He has a deep knowledge of Social Media, Social CRM and digital platform design. Rodrigo graduated from Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación in Chile and moved after graduation to Barcelona and founded one of Spain’s important digital marketing agencies working with large Spanish brands on their digital and mobile marketing and web strategies. After almost a decade in the digital agency that he founded he move back him life to Chile for a couple of years became the head Digital Creative Director for Apollo Communications part of the Apollo Group (where he won the IAB 2009 Technological Innovation of the Year award). Today he continues as an external consultant working directly from Spain with the International Marketing team of Apollo Group (providing solutions to USA, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico).
Araken Leão
Araken Leão, partner and team leader of Modyo, Brazil.
In 1994 he began working in Multimedia development and marketing in a company he founded that went on to develop games for Activision, Electronic Arts, Atari, Disney, and other leading companies. In 2000 he founded Banana Games which he then merged in 2006 with Fischer America Group, one of Brazil’s leading marketing holding companies, where he became Digital President of BG Interactive as a partner with Fischer America. After selling his position in Fisher America, in 2009 he became a partner in Casanova Group as Digital Vice-President. Araken graduated from Anhembi Morubi University with a postgraduate degree in multimedia design and created the first course of Game Design in Brasil.
José Antonio Silva
José Antonio is a member of the Modyo development team. He has worked as a Software Engineer in Software AG Chile (2004), as a Software Architect in Iale Tecnología Chile (2006) leading the development of business intelligence platforms.
He is a founding partner at Jcode, leader of Teamgestor and consultant in various projects related to the Web. José Antonio is a Software Enginner form Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.
Felipe Rojas
Felipe Rojas is an engineer in Computer Science from University Federico Santa María, he participated and won the university innovation contest and received a Chilean government grant to create digital multimedia prototypes.
He was a "live in" entrepreneur in the technological business incubator 3IE where he was a Founder of Tyndaris Inc., a company dedicated to create multimedia solutions. Dynamic, cordial and team oriented, he is an enthusiastic member of the Modyo team, leveraging his experience in areas such as architecture, computer systems and software development.
Carlos Hurtado Larraín
Carlos Hurtado L. is part of the Modyo Development Team. He has a PH.D in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a Masters Degree in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Chile.
He is an international expert in data mining having published and lectured worldwide on the subject. He teaches and lectures in the fields of data mining, the semantic web and artificial intelligence. He is associated with the Center for Web Research where he collaborates on several projects.
In 2005 he was a winner for the "Best Research Paper" from the European Conference of Semantic Web. He is also Co-director for an international joint project dealing with Flexible Querying of Networked-Structured Data funded by a grant given by the Royal Society (United Kingdom’s National Science Academy).
Roberto Riveras
Roberto Rivera is a member of the Modyo development team focused on design and usability.
He graduated from Universidad Central de Chile in Law school where he decided to give up the practice of law in order to pursue his passion for "end user experience" making web sites highly usable and friendly. He worked as a freelancer in the implementation and adaptation of different Content Management Systems (Drupal, Wordpress, MovableType) and the development of interfaces for applications and web sites, with adherence to industry standards.
Valerie Atkinson
Valerie works with Modyo clients and agencies.
Previously she worked in Impirica managing important client and agency relationships. She studied Public Relations from University Pacífico where she was the best student of her generation.
She also studied service management at University Adolfo Ibañez.
She is an avid field hockey player and loves to read about technology and Internet.
Daniela Chávez
Daniela is in charge of managing the Social Networks, Communities and E-Marketing of Modyo.
Degree in Communications and graduated with distinction from the Public Relations career at the University of the Pacific.
Participated in the international program "Communication in Business" of UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) and in recent years was in charge of Public Relations and Corporate Design food concessions from Ski centers: La Parva and El Colorado.
She’s a fan of snowboarding, music, technology and Internet.