TinBu, a leading provider of revenue generating online content, is pleased to announce they have hired Fernando Ascencio to serve as Vice President of Latin American Operations. Ascencio will be in charge of marketing TinBu's patent-pending technology and content channels to Spanish language online and wireless publishers in the U.S., as well as throughout Latin America.
Fernando Ascencio is an experienced internet executive in the Latin American sector. Ascencio worked with the Spanish language broadcasting company Univision for 8-years prior to participating in the initial launch of Quepasa.com in 1999. During his tenure with Quepasa.com he served in a variety of senior executive roles, including as CEO of the Company. During Ascencio's tenure with Quepasa the company grew into one of the largest Latin American social networks in the world, with over 2.5 million registered users from the U.S., Mexico, and Latin America. As CEO of Quepasa Ascencio oversaw over 50 employees, with offices in Mexico and the U.S. Ascencio also worked previously for the ABC Television Group based out of New York City.
"TinBu is fortunate to have a person with as much experience and skills as Fernando Ascencio to head up our growth with Latin American audiences," stated John Brier, TinBu's CEO. "His direct experience in developing online business relationships in the online sector across all of Latin America, as well as with the Spanish speaking audience residing in North America, will be a valuable asset to TinBu as we look to increase our growth among Spanish speaking audiences in the U.S. and in Latin America," added Brier.
As Vice President of Latin American Operations Ascencio will manage the overall performance of the company's growth across Latin America and the U.S. within the Spanish speaking segment. TinBu produces interactive content channels using a patent pending technology that are designed to increase site traffic, user satisfaction, and revenue generation for online publishers who utilize TinBu's content channels. TinBu's interactive content channels are available to online publishers with integrated revenue generation as an option, including Yahoo! search and contextual ads for publishers serving Latin American online audiences.
TinBu currently works with many leading online publishers serving the Latin American audience, including MSN Espanol, AOL Latino, AOL Mexico, Univision, Terra, Seccion Amarillo, Telemundo, and many others. Ascencio will initially work from TinBu's U.S. location, with a planned opening of a Latin American office in Panama City, Panama, or Buenos Aries, Argentina, in 2010.
“I am very proud to be part of the professional team at TinBu, a leader among interactive data producers for the online and wireless business world. It is my strong belief that this new renewed vision and commitment to penetrate the Latin America and US Hispanic technology markets is well-founded and comes at an important time in TinBu’s evolution,” said Mr. Ascencio.
Spanish language content channels available to online publishers serving the Latin American market include international soccer, weather, complete lottery coverage of U.S. Spain, and Latin America, fitness videos, horoscopes, North American Box Office, Celebrity Entertainment, U.S. gas prices, flight tracking, stocks/finance, sudoku, U.S. mortgage rates, MPG Analysis, swimsuit models, and more. TinBu continues to build out additional content channels in both English and Spanish on a quarterly basis. A current listing of their Spanish language content channels can be seen here http://www.tinbu.com/tinbu_web/site/spanish.php .
About TinBu:
TinBu uses patent-pending technology to provide interactive data products to leading online and wireless companies worldwide. TinBu`s clients include AOL, AOL Latino, AOL Canada, AOL Mexico, Telemundo, MSN, MSN Español, MSNBC, USA TODAY, BellSouth, ATT, Media General, Inergize Digital Media, CBS Television, ABC Television, Fox Television, CBS Radio, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Tribune, Toronto Star, CBC New Media, My Red Fish, Local Solutions Networks, Motricity, uClick, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Hello Metro, New York Daily News, DirecTV, Univision, Terra Networks, Yahoo!, People PC, New York Post, and many others. For more information visit them online at http://www.tinbu.com/ .
