Felipe Valdes

Felipe Valdes "is the co-founder and CEO of Tiaxa, a Santiago-based rating and billing service provider to telecoms in Latin America. Since graduating as an aerospace engineer from Princeton University in 1993, Felipe has been involved in several successful technology start-ups in Latin America, as well as numerous social and conservation initiatives. From 1991 to 1993, he was COO of Climb for the Cure, a student initiative to foster AIDS awareness among college students. The project raised $1,000,000 for AmFAR and culminated in a successful summit of Mount McKinley. He is a founding partner in the Patagonia Sur LLC. Felipe was also an associate editor of "The Future at Risk,” an analysis of primary public education in Chile, for the Chilean think tank Centro de Estudios Públicos and is the author of "Energy Conservation Potential in Chile" for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the International Institute for Energy Conservation."


 * Director, Patagonia Sur Foundation