The Team
We are an interdisciplinary team of four young people living in
Cordoba (Argentina) but with a very international approach to the world
of entrepreneurship. We are eager to innovate and create a
Latinamerican business network that transcends cultural boundaries and
to consolidate over time. We love challenges and focus
all our work in User Research; it is fundamental for us to understand SMEs and Latinamerican businesses
to solve your needs.
Currently Azonia is under development, we are testing and
adapting our platform with a network of 290 companies. We
aware that our collective knowledge may be limited
and we value what others have achieved, so we have
advisors who bring their experience and knowledge to the project.
The development of Azonia is based on what we consider three
pillars: business concept, software development and User Experience Design. It is essential that our
platform is supported by a solid and sustainable business model,
based on creating and delivering value to our users. In addition we aim
to create an unique user experience, which means finding the
most balanced combination of design, functionality and
usability. Finally, it all has to be supported by a
robust and flexible system, and that's where the third pillar of software development comes into play.
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Santiago Bravo
Founder, CEOSanti is the wildcard of Azonia. His strategic role as a developer of business concept contrasts with the dozen of everyday challenges at the tactical level. "Global vision" and "small details" are the two ends of the spectrum in which he moves daily.
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Maximiliano David Bustos
Founder, Chief DeveloperMaxi is a member of the platform development team. Besides his passion for programming, he also enjoys the process of building ideas that will differentiate Azonia. He considers the project a very interesting challenge, which motivates him to work giving the best of himself.
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Facundo Gaich
Founder, DeveloperFacu is one half of the software development team. A programmer since young age, his strong suit are the technical skills necessary for building the platform. However, he knows that success can only be achieved with an interdisciplinary team like Azonia.
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Emanuel Smargiassi
Founder, Art DirectorEmanuel is who channels the ideas and developments through design and contributes to the transformation of Azonia from his designer perspective. He considers Azonia a powerful tool for businesses that must be handled with maximum practicality, and that's where his years of experience in interface design will be relevant for development.
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Eugenia Jongewaard de Boer
UX (User Experience) AdvisorEuge spends her time in making Azonia easier to use, always taking into account the goals of the users. She specializes in the areas of development, usability and web accessibility. She's passionate about finding the perfect harmony between functionality and aesthetics together with business goals to achieve an enjoyable user experience.
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Fernando Miller
E-Commerce AdvisorFernando founded one of the first software companies focused on enabling SMBs to harness the potential of the Internet. He has 20 years of experience in Technology, Business and Marketing; as well as being the founder of Iprocom, he is a consultant, lecturer and broadcaster on the use of the Internet as a sales channel. He contributes to Azonia with his experience and keen vision of the Internet industry.
Sponsors
Azonia was chosen as one of the "40 innovative and visionary enterprises" out of 480 projects submitted to the e+e Business Foundation for Entrepreneurs in 2011. We successfully completed the training and mentoring program, and our CEO is one of the 2011 e+e Entrepreneurs.
Esencias del Boticario has been supporting us from the start and has given us the opportunity to work together. We have built a strategic partnership for the development and testing of the first version of our platform.
