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Martin Varsavsky (born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1960) is an Argentinian maverick entrepreneur based in Spain. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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B, to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school.
At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee, following the forced disappearance of his cousin, David Horacio Varsavsky. In 1981 he obtained a BA from the New York University, in 1983 he earned an MA in International Affairs and in 1985 MBA in Business Administration from Columbia University. Disappear redirects here. ...
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Since July 1995, Varsavsky has been living in Madrid, Spain. Besides his business activities, he is also engaged in non profit activities. This article is about the Spanish capital. ...
For the past 8 years, Varsavsky has been teaching courses on “entrepreneurship” at the Instituto de Empresa Business School, one of Spain’s leading business school. He has written numerous articles on business and international relations that have been published in several international publications including El País and Newsweek, and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. Varsavsky is also an active blogger. IE Business School shapes leaders that promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing. ...
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He married Waya Quiviger (b.1977)after divorcing his first wife Dr. Patricia Aisemberg (b.1960). He has four children.
Entrepreneurial activities
During the past 20 years, Martin Varsavsky has founded seven companies, including Jazztel, EINSTEINet and Ya.com – all part of the “new media” industry. Its a DSL company that operates in Spain offering triple play services (telephone, Internet and television). ...
In 1984, at the age of 24 and still in college, Varsavsky created Urban Capital Corporation, a real state company in New York that was one of the early leaders in the Loft Movement. Urban Capital Corporation purchased industrial buildings and recycled them into residential apartments and offices, developing up to 50 thousand square meters in the Soho and Tribeca neighborhoods of New York City. Look up Loft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
In 1986, together with Argentine scientist Claudio Cuello and César Milstein (Medical Science Nobel Prize), Varsavsky founded Medicorp Sciences, a biotechnology company in which he is still a shareholder. Based in Montreal, Medicorp Sciences pioneered the development of HIV and PSA tests. César Milstein (October 8, 1927 – March 24, 2002) was an Argentine-born scientist who spent most of his life in Great Britain. ...
In 1991, Varsavsky ventured into the telecommunications sector with Viatel. Viatel created and developed the “call-back” service, an innovative alternative to the high costs of traditional long-distance operators. Viatel evolved from providing the first call-back service in Colorado to becoming a pan-European telecommunications network. Based in London, Viatel operates an optical fiber circuit connecting more than 50 strategically situated points from Western Europe to the US East Coast’s largest cities. In 1994, Viatel went public, and four years later Varsavsky divested from the company to dedicate himself to other ventures.
In 1997, Varsavsky founded Jazztel Telecommunications (Jazz), the first alternative telecommunications access provider in the Iberian Peninsula. Headquartered in Madrid and with its own infrastructure, the company became the leading telecommunications operator offering bandwidth solutions for the residential and commercial markets. Jazztel then went public.
In 1999, Varsavsky created Ya.com Internet Factory, Spain’s third largest internet web site/DSL provider that also includes the second largest Spanish language online travel agency, www.viajar.com. Ya.com was owned by Jazztel (70%), Martin Varsavsky (10%) and the company’s’ staff (20%). It was sold in 2000 to T-Online International, Deutsche Telekom’s Internet subsidiary.
In 2000, Martin Varsavsky created EINSTEINet AG, the largest application service provider (ASP) in Germany. Einsteinet was a company built on the premise that most applications were going to migrate from people's PCs to the internet. Unfortunately for Martin Varsavsky and his investors the EINSTEINet did not materialize and the company was sold for practically nothing saving the employees jobs but providing no returns. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Martin Varsavsky’s current venture is called FON. Founded at the end of 2005, FON is a community-driven company dedicated to building the world’s largest global WiFi community, spreading the power of WiFi around the world through an innovative user-generated infrastructure. Headquartered in Madrid, FON is backed by its equity investors and partners Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Skype (NASDAQ: EBAY), Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital to WiFi-enable the planet. // FON Wireless Ltd. ...
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Currently, Varsavsky also acts as an investment partner in various early stage companies including Gspace, Joost, Menéame, mo.neytrack.in, Netvibes, Plazes, Technorati, Vpod, Wikio, Xing, Vuze and Hipertextual. Outside of the telecommunications sector, he is the majority shareholder of the wind park “El Moralejo” (a renewable energy generator) and Proesa, owner of the fashion labels Sybilla and Jocomomola.
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Honors and rewards - World Technology (2006)
- Pickering, Columbia University (2003)
- Spanish Entrepreneur of the Year, iBest (2000)
- Global Leader for Tomorrow, World Economic Forum (2000)
- European Entrepreneur of the Year, ECTA (1999)
- European Entrepreneur in Telecommunications (1998)
- Entrepreneur of the Year, New York City 1995)
Philanthrophic activities Martin Varsavsky is founder and president of the Varsavsky Foundation, devoted to improving the educational conditions in the world. The foundation promotes Educ.ar (Argentina) and EducarChile (Chile), aiming to democratize and modernize the educational systems in each country respectively. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,048 × 1,536 pixels, file size: 991 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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He is also founder and president of the Safe Democracy Foundation, devoted to contributing to the ongoing debates on the leading questions in international affairs with innovative ideas and solutions. The foundation’s goal is to promote fair, transparent and safe democracies.
The Safe Democracy Foundation and the Club de Madrid organized the Atocha Workshop in March 2005 and the international Summit on Terrorism, Democracy and Security to great acclaim. The Secretary General of the United Nations and numerous heads of State met in Madrid to analyze how democracies should protect themselves against terrorism in a more effective way without compromising the spirit and safeguards of democracy.
Varsavsky is on the Board of Trustees of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and the One Voice Foundation.
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