About me
Alberto is a co-founder of SocialBon a technology company that’s changing the social gaming industry. His role is to oversee technology and gaming teams making sure “the trains leave and arrive on time”. SocialBon is a company incubated by Next Generation – a fund where Alberto serves as CTO and technical partner.
Before joining Next Generation, Alberto founded TigerTag – the first free lost & found service for consumer electronics where he was responsible for product and technology development. During the same period Alberto served as interim CTO for ABD3, LLC developer of YellowPin, a Facebook/OpenSocial application that enabled subscribers to draw on their existing social networks and engage in real world using any mobile device that supports SMS.
From 2004 to 2008, he worked as CTO at Entertainment Media Works, Inc. (EMW), a VC-funded Series C developer of contextual commerce technology mixing entertainment and social shopping. Alberto was part of the founding team and managed product and technology groups located in New York, Europe, India and Brazil.
From 2002 to 2004 he served as CTO of Byte Interactive a professional services company later acquired by Story Worldwide a global advertising conglomerate. Prior to that Alberto worked on technical and project management roles for big online agencies like Digital Drive, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies and Modem Media, which he joined in the early days of the Internet.
Alberto was also part of the first generation of bloggers and worked as contributing editor for AOL’s Engadget. During this time he created the localized Spanish versions for Engadget and Autoblog (top blogs in their categories).
He teaches at the Design and Management department of Parsons the New School of Design at New School University in New York since 2004.
