Cancelled: Bordofarms: An Innovative Approach to Mexican Deportation

Please note that this event has been cancelled
“Bordofarms: An Innovative Approach to Mexican Deportation”

Speaker: Miguel Marshall, Kauffman Fellow as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Angel Ventures Mexico

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015
Time: 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Location: IR/PS Dean's conference room, UC San Diego
Open to: Students

Join young entrepreneur Miguel Marshall for a discussion into the current issues affecting Tijuana through U.S. migration policies, Mexico’s government approach to this issue and a current productive solution through temporary urban farming jobs: Bordofarms.

Bio

Miguel Marshall is a Kauffman Fellow as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Angel Ventures Mexico. He is the co-founder of AhorroLibre.com, a startup in the LatAm fin-tech industry, and HUB STN, a binational co-working space in Tijuana. Marshall is a global shaper by the World Economic Forum and a mentor for Endeavor Mexico and Startup Mexico. He is also a general partner with SV Latam, a VC Fund focused on linking early and seed stage companies from Latin America to Silicon Valley and vice-versa.

Marshall's professional experience ranges from financial auditing with KPMG to consulting with Deloitte. He launched Endeavor, the emerging market accelerator, in Tijuana and was the regional director for Angel Ventures Mexico, an Angel Group and Co-investment Fund.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from CETYS Universidad and in business administration from City University of Seattle. He also attended the Summer Venture in Management Program from Harvard Business School and is a Riordan MBA Fellow from UCLA Anderson.

Cosponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies.

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first serve basis. Contact Lisa Lee with questions.