Rodrigo Arboleda
Rodrigo Arboleda is a senior executive with 50 years of experience in the fields of Architecture, International Business Development, Education and Technology, Civic and Philanthropic endeavors. After graduating from MIT as an architect in 1965, he became an award-winning architect in his native Medellin, Colombia, as well as the honorary president of the Colombian Society of Architects.
As an entrepreneur he entered into several businesses both in Colombia and later in the U.S., ranging from developing a fresh-cut flowers farm for export and later in the transportation and distribution of flowers and other perishables and regular cargo both in ocean vessels and airplanes. In addition to these businesses, Rodrigo managed the expansion of Ogden Corporation, in the fields of airport management, the development of venues in which entertainment and sport events took place in Latin America and in Spain. He was the first president of 33 of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 33 airports as well as the construction of the Rural Society's Fair and Exhibit grounds in Buenos Aires, and the Isla Mágica's theme park in Seville, Spain.
For more than 33 years, he promoted the use of technology in education with his friend and classmate Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at MIT, in Colombia and later as the worldwide CEO of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. He managed the logistics, implementation, training and deployment of the latest versions of the emblematic XO Laptop, and managed the delivery of many of the three million laptops in developing nations. He served in the BOD of Save the Children Foundation and is currently in the board of several philanthropic institutions.
In addition, his current areas of endeavor are related to the impact on education of cheap mobile devices, the promotion of free internet access for children in remote areas of the world and the idea of coding-to-learn, areas of endeavor acquired while at the helm of OLPC.
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