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Luis Barros, Founder and Chairman
Click here to see feature and mention on p. 68 on Cover Story of Stereophile (3/09 "Cape Verde Singers: Sexy Sirens from the Islands: Divas of the Diaspora"). Luis is the Founder of Luso Mundo Institute and its related entities, which all specialize in World & Lusophone music, culture and performing arts.
An experienced entrepreneur with extensive venture development and financing experience, Mr. Barros is a native of Cape Verde who came to the United States in 1975. A former mobile and radio DJ, he has been a member of AFTRA and SAG since 1992. His past assignments include consulting with LaFace Records (acquired by BMG) and with Grammy-Award winning producer Dallas Austin's Rowdy Records.
Past projects have been presented in North America at leading Performing Arts Centers (PACs), Commercial Venues , and Festivals and has had extensive media coverage. This includes collaborations with Harmonia Mundi, Lusafrica, and Times Square Records, and some of the artists have been signed to leading agents, such as ICM (now Opus 3 Artists) and Columbia Artists Management (CAMI).
Mr. Barros also serves as the President of LB Ventures, LLC, which provides business development, consulting, and advisory services to accelerate the growth, adoption, and value of companies and brands. Concurrently, Mr. Barros has developed a pedigree of 19 years, with expertise in the entrepreneurial, regulatory, and academic aspects of venture capital & capital markets, with management experience in marketing and business development at several high tech start-ups.
This includes four that were acquired by Microsoft , TIBCO; McKesson and Thompson, respectively; and one that went public via Nasdaq; and consulted with companies that were respectively acquired by ProACT Technologies, Terra Networks, and BMG Entertainment.
Mr. Barros has extensive educational and work experience in the Internet sector, including an MBA from MIT-Sloan, serving as an Adjunct Professor of Internet and eBusiness, and with roles with co’s that pioneered search, visualization and business intelligence analytics, virtualization, eHealth, Peer-2-Peer Education, Open Source Innovation & Health 2.0.
Tom Martorelli, Consultant
Assisting in the launch of LMI is Tom Martorelli, a seasoned nonprofit organization manager with over three decades of experience in fundraising, marketing, finance, operations management, and strategic planning for community organizations throughout the United States. A graduate of Princeton University (1973), he is also one of the first Harvard MBA’s to apply his degree in nonprofit organizations, having done so since his graduation in 1982.
His first job after Princeton was as a researcher at the Watergate Special Prosecution Force under Leon Jaworski, whose management of that organization under crisis conditions was one of Mr. Martorelli’s independent study electives at Harvard Business School.
Organizations at which he has applied his skill and experience include the American Heart Association, the Better Business Bureau of Massachusetts, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, The Appalachian Mountain Club, and multiple museums and environmental start-up organizations in the states of California, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He is co-author of Organizing Outdoor Volunteers (1989), a handbook on how to create and successfully launch a new mission-driven nonprofit organization. In 2002, he drafted a statewide educational plan for the Florida Department of Education.
At Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Tom helped a fledgling runaway youth organization develop into a national model of excellence as a multi-service agency for troubled teenagers and young adults, Bridge is still utilized by the US Department of Health and Human Services as a training resource for similar programs nationwide. Mr. Martorelli also led the agency’s successful application for United Way of Massachusetts Bay support in 1978, an affiliation that is now over 30 years old. He continued to serve as a strategic planning consultant for Bridge until 2005.
His work as a museum planning consultant from 1989 through 1997 included project management at Coca-Cola Olympic City in Atlanta (1994 through 1996), in conjunction with Discovery Communications and Reebok, Inc. Discovery Communications engaged his services again in 1999 to co-manage the initial development of its Titanic Artifacts Traveling Exhibition. In addition to project management, he also provided interpretive and educational copywriting services for multiple science and history museums.
Tom is currently the Director of Marketing for the Harvard Club of Boston, where he oversees programs designed to grow the organization’s membership through the presentation of unique on-site educational content for alumni of Harvard and seven other affiliated colleges and universities. Under his leadership, membership and associated utilization revenue increased 17% in his first full year, and has been steadily increasing ever since – a reversal of years of flat or decreasing revenue from the Club’s members.
In addition to his paid positions, Mr. Martorelli has served as Chairman of the Board of a community health center, and on the boards of several other nonprofits. He currently serves as Membership Chairman on the Board of the Harvard Business School Alumni of Boston.
Advisory Board
Executive Relations Manager
Bentley College
(former Global Marketing and Venture Capital Executive)
Ted Florence
(formerly with LaFace Records and Arista)
Herman Krawitz
(former executive at Metropolitan Opera)
Attorney
Foley, Hoag & Elliott
Eduardo Tobon
Sr. VP and Director, Sovereign Bank
Midori Makino
Senior Financial Analyst
Water & Urban, Africa Region; Lusophone Markets
Team
Angola Brazil Cape Verde East Timor Guinea Macau Mozambique Portugal São Tomé
