| @andrewdeandrade | |
| Birthplace | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Birthdate | 5/24/82 |
| North Carolina State University, BS | 2004 |
| Textile Technology and Apparel Management | |
| North Carolina State University, BA | 2004 |
| Psychology |
Andrew de Andrade / Mentez
Andrew de Andrade is co-founder of Improvisu, a startup that uses cyberspace to help make it easy for people to get together with one another in meatspace. At Improvisu, he is the resident jack of all trades, master of none (user experience, usability, design and front-end engineering (html, css, javascript)).
Improvisu is currently finishing development of the the first half of its MVP and will begin testing it in September 2011.
Prior to working to co-found his first startup, Andrew was the Vice President of Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management at Mentez. He is responsible for maximizing the monetization of the social network applications in Mentez’ portfolio, such as BuddyPoke, Colheita Feliz, Gangues and Bolão Placar.
Andrew was the lead product manager for Locaweb’s IaaS Cloud Computing product, the fastest growing product in the company’s history, and before entering Brazil’s Internet industry, Andrew worked as an associate equity research analyst at Itaú Securities.
Andrew holds a BS in Textile Technology and Apparel Management and a BA in Psychology from NC State University. He’s also just a few credits shy of a physics minor and math minor. However, by this point in time, he’s pretty sure that all the new stuff he’s learned since graduating has pushed the old stuff from college out of his brain.
