COMMUNITY. CULTURE. CURIOSITY.
This is your platform. These are your transformative conversations; your new and inspiring ideas that will progress the borderland region and beyond.
The sister cities of El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, and Las Cruces that make up the borderland are rich in culture and dynamic thinking. This community is resilient in the face of adversity and hungry for innovation. With a long history of cutting-edge engineering developments, economic impact, and influential political thought, accessibility to big ideas for all is critical for progress.
Come ready to feed your curiosity, there is so much to discover.
This is BBI.
Events
CEO Insights - A Conversation with Glide and Pantheon
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
6:00 - 7:30 PM
ONE : ONE
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Jonathan Lopez
CEO, Glide
Jonathan is proud to be born and raised in El Paso. He graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with a BBA in Finance in 2010. He worked in finance throughout college and began his career as a financial planner immediately upon graduation. In 2017, Jonathan partnered with Andrew Harris as founding partners of Truvize Financial Planning, introducing El Paso to an innovative and unique financial services business model. In 2018, he and his partners Andrew Harris and Ernie Alonzo founded Glide, becoming the first company to bring dockless electric scooter technology to El Paso.
Erik Pavia
CEO, Pantheon
Erik is Pantheon's founder and CEO. Prior to starting Pantheon, he was on the founding team of the marketing-tech company Knotch and StartX, the first-ever Stanford-affiliated accelerator. Erik has a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Juris Doctorate from Stanford University. Erik was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, and is a first-generation American, college graduate, and entrepreneur. Outside of building Pantheon, he spends his time teaching about entrepreneurship and technology as a clinical professor at UTEP, as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Medical Center of Americas, and as the host of the Techquila Podcast.
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Jonathan Tavarez
Founder, Borderland Big Ideas
Jonathan is a structural engineer at the American Institute of Steel Construction in Chicago, Illinois. He has experience with high-rise building design, design for safety-related components in nuclear power plants, and now oversees the development of two ANSI-accredited standards that are critical to the structural steel industry. Jonathan obtained his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the founder of Borderland Big Ideas, he is extremely excited to learn more about his hometown and to work with the influential people progressing the region forward.