United States
Chicago - Illinois
+1 (630) 310-9766
Brazil
Rua Gomes de Carvalho, 1.510 - 10º andar- São Paulo - SP
+55 (11) 5171-6610
Colombia
CLL 94 No. 11-30 Piso 5- Bogotá
+57 (1) 432-0830
Puerto Rico
PO Box 13876 - San Juan, PR 00908-3876
+ 1 (787) 721 3953
We have a portfolio of more than 2,200 assets installed and under development, including a diverse portfolio of indoor DAS coverage.
We work with all the major operators in the countries where we operate.
We believe in the importance of providing telecommunications services to serve an increasingly connected world.
José Stella is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of QMC Telecom. Previously he was President and Co-founder of VIU Media, the largest private outdoor advertising firm in Puerto Rico, until the company’s sale in 2006 to Lamar Advertising. Previous work experience includes Chase Manhattan Bank, Banco Popular and UBS in Zurich. He graduated cum laude from Babson College with a major in Finance, Investment and Economics and has an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Rafael Somoza is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of QMC Telecom. Previously he was Co-CEO and Co-founder of VIU Media, the largest private outdoor advertising firm in Puerto Rico, until the company’s sale in 2006 to Lamar Advertising. Previous work experience includes Chase Manhattan Bank and CS First Boston. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College with a BA in Economics and Political Science and has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
John Georges is a Senior Partner at QMC and leads the company’s Latin American DAS and Small Cell efforts. Previously, John co-founded and acted as CEO and then Chairman of NextG Networks until its sale to Crown Castle for $1B in 2012. John also co-founded and was President and CTO of LGC Wireless, a telecom equipment manufacturer successfully sold to ADC Telecom. John has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley.
Ricardo Zubieta is CFO of QMC Telecom. Previously, he spent 20 years in investment banking, advising a broad range of technology, media and telecommunications clients on mergers and acquisitions, financing and stock offerings. Most recently, he was Managing Director at Barclay's Global Technology, Media and Telecom Group, where he was Head of Telecom M&A. Ricardo began his career at Lehman Brother's Telecom and Media Group. He graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with an engineering degree and has an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
Aurelio Emanuelli is the General Counsel of QMC Telecom International Holdings, LLC. Bobby has been a partner for more than twenty years in law firms in Puerto Rico, focusing on financial transactions, regulatory and securities affairs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and other general corporate issues. Bobby holds a Bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in History from Yale College and Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
María del C. Betancourt is QMC Telecom’s Chief People Officer. Previously, María served as the People Function Vice-President for Operations and Logistics at Walmart Mexico and Central America where she was named one of the top 30 CHRO’s in Mexico. She also has over 20 years of experience in Latin America, the United States, and other international markets. María holds a B.B.A. degree in Computer Information Systems and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Puerto Rico.
José Javier Martinez is QMC Telecom’s Chief Information and Process Officer. Previously, José Javier was CIO and CTO for Globenet, a submarine cable company. He has over 18 years of experience in IT and process related positions across the Americas and Europe. José Javier holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Universidad de León in Spain and an Executive MBA from IE Business School.
Andre Machado is President of QMC Telecom in Brazil. Previously he was Vice President and a member of the executive management team for Huawei and Ericsson Brazil. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been in senior management positions for the past 11 years. André graduated in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Mackenzie and holds complementary business management courses from the London Business School and the Indian School of Business (ISB), and Standford Graduate School of Business.
Luiza Bet is President of QMC Telecom in Mexico. Previously, she was QMC DAS operations director for Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Prior to joining QMC Telecom, she worked at A.T. Kearney and was a strategic consultant for VIVO & NET in Brazil in important telecommunications projects. Luiza holds a BA in Business Administration from Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and completed her MBA at Stanford University.
Julio Otalora is President of QMC Telecom in Colombia. Julio has more than 19 years of professional experience working for multinational telecommunications and technology companies in Colombia and the United States. Throughout his professional career, he has led Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Adobe and Apple as Country Manager. Julio holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Pontificia Universidad Javerina and an MBA from Thunderbird Graduate School (ASU) in Phoenix, Arizona.
William N. Thorndike, Jr. founded Housatonic Partners in Boston in 1994 and has been Managing Partner since that time. Prior to that, Mr. Thorndike worked with T. Rowe Price Associates and Walker & Company where he was named to the Board of Directors. Mr. Thorndike is a graduate of Harvard College and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
John Locke joined Accel in 2009 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund. John is the lead investor and board member in SeatGeek, GoFundMe, Lightspeed, Wyzant, Invoice2Go, Pond5 and QMC Telecom. John grew up in Ashland, Ohio and graduated from Princeton.
Gerald Risk most recently served as Vice Chairman of Asurion, the world’s largest provider of technology protection services. Before joining Asurion, Gerald was an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. Gerald holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce with Honors from Queen’s University in Canada.
Mark Hilderbrand has been a Managing Partner at Housatonic Partners since 2006. Prior to Housatonic, he was a General Partner at Onset Ventures and a Vice President at Summit Partners. Earlier in his career, he worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company. Mr. Hilderbrand holds a BS from Boston University, a MS from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Arthur Patterson has helped management teams develop companies into market-defining leaders for five decades. Arthur currently serves on the boards of several private companies including: Centrify, Integral Development, IronPlanet, Krux Digital, NewlineNoosh and Poplicus. Prior to co-founding Accel, Arthur was a general partner of Adler & Company. His career in venture capital began at Citicorp Venture Capital. Arthur graduated from Harvard and lives in San Francisco with his wife and their four children.
Chris Torto is the CEO and Founder of Ascenty, a leading data center company in Brazil. Prior to that, Chris was the founder and CEO of Vivax, the second largest cable TV company in Brazil started in 1995 and acquired by NET Serviços in 2007. He was also CEO of Voyager Inc., an internet company that went public in 1999 (acquired by a U.S. telecom group in 2000). Chris holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Maine and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
