Pablo Brenner is a Partner at Prosperitas Capital Partners, the first venture capital fund in Uruguay, and one of the most active in the Latin American VC sector. He is also a board member of Endeavor Uruguay, a non-profit organization aiming at fostering entrepreneurship in developing countries, and a member of the Steering Committee of Programa Emprender, a private/public initiative focused on developing entrepreneurship in Uruguay.

Pablo is also a board member of several companies: Medicaa, Memory, CPGSoft and Interactive Networks, and he works as a consultant in innovation and start-ups.

Prior to Prosperitas, Pablo spent over 15 years in the high-tech industry. In 1993 he co-founded Alvarion (formerly BreezeCOM) in Israel, one of the world’s leading Wimax providers, bringing the company from a small start-up with 2 employees into a multimillion revenue company with hundreds of employees, going through a successful IPO in NASDAQ in March 2000. At Alvarion Pablo acted as Vice President of Research and Development at the Tel Aviv headquarters, and later as VP Latin America, being responsible for 20% of the company’s worldwide sales.

Mr. Brenner was also founder and CEO of Wiplug, a Brazilian-Uruguayan start-up developing power line equipment, Director of Technology at Idea Capital, a boutique Brazilian investment bank, and Chairman of Taho, a Brazilian wireless access provider.

Mr. Brenner has been an active member of international technical standards committees such as IEEE802.11 (today’s WiFi) or IETF, and holds a US patent in “Fast roaming Algorithm’s for Frequency Hopping Networks".

In his spare time Pablo shares his experience, knowledge and thoughts in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology on his blog (http://pablobrenner.wordpress.com).