Lorenzo
Lara-Carrero
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Lorenzo
Lara-Carrero is a businessman, consultant and researcher dedicated to the
development of business projects, that focuss on Venezuelan, Hispanic and
Latinamerican digital markets. Websites
related to his work
Doctor Lara-Carrero is President and founding partner of Negociosdigitales.com, a firm dedicated to investing risk capital in business projects that take advantage of Internet technologies, supplying strategic capital –tthat is a combination of knowledge assets plus financial assets suited to the development phase of each business–. Amongst these businesses, one finds Classified Media Group, that comprises several on-line C2C services like Tucarro.com, Tulancha.com, Tuinmueble.com y Tuavión.com and SinFlash Media Group which includes SinFlash.com, SinFlash TV, SinFlash Radio, and SinFlash Imaging in alliance with Casa Hellmund-RapidFot. Other businesses in which Negociosdigitales has invested strategic capital include Perfilnet, Tendenciasdigitales, Imolko and ObraWeb. Recently, the investment scope has been extended to business initiatives that take advantage of other technologies, such as Genérgica -Gestión de Energía- dedicated to supplying electronic equipment for the electric energy distribution industry. As a consultant, Doctor Lara has worked with many Venezuelan and International firms in the Internet, media, insurance, oil, publishing and computer industries. He is a pioneer in the Latinamerican Internet industry and has focussed on designing and implementing new management practices and business strategies appropiate for the digital markets. He is frequently invited to lecture on these topics in national and international meetings. Doctor Lara has also been a consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank, the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and for the United Nations Development Program. He was founding president of the Venezuelan Chamber of Electronic Commerce Cámara Venezolana de Comercio Electrónico. During his two years in office, starting in 1999, he fostered activelly the intelectual and lobby processes leading to the first legislation for e-commerce in his country and coordinated the edition of one of the basic references that was part of that process. The well known business publication Gerente has chosen Lorenzo amongst the 100 MOST SUCCESSFUL MANAGERS in Venezuela in 2001 and again in 2004. Ph. D. (1975) and B.Sc. (1972) in mathematics
at the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
