Juan Pablo Cappello, a co- founder of NUE Life Health, The LAB Miami, Miami Angels, PAG Law PLLC, was recently named one of the “Most Influential Hispanics” in by Poder magazine in the areas of science and technology and was selected as a “Top 50 Entrepreneur” by Business Leader magazine.
As an attorney Juan Pablo Cappello was named Lawyer of the Year in derivative and futures law from the Miami area by Best Lawyer. He was also named the Leading Lawyer of the Year in the Corporate/M&A – Latin America category at the Law Awards. Also the editorial staff of Latinvex selected Juan Pablo as one of the top 100 leading attorneys that are involved in the growing legal business in Latin America.
Before launching PAG Law PLLC, Juan Pablo was a Principal Shareholder in the Latin American Group of Greenberg Traurig, an international 1,800+ lawyer law firm. He also started another boutique law firm in Miami unrelated to PAG Law PLLC. Earlier in his career Juan Pablo was a partner in and a director of Patagon.com, which was sold to Banco Santander for a transaction value of over US$750 million.
Juan Pablo is also a well known entrepreneur and deeply involved in supporting venture capital in Latin America. He has co-founded several companies including (i) www.idea.me, the first Latin America crowdfunding site and (ii) Sauber Energy, a green energy company in Chile that resolves the problem of “harmonics” in the electrical grid, while remaining a serial ”seed investor” supporting many projects including Senzari (an international music site like Pandora only better), Urbita (a regional travel site), and LinkedStore (an Argentina site that supports SMEs).
He also serves on the Knight Foundation Advisory Committee, as well as the advisory board of the Institute of Global International Effectiveness at the Kelly School of Management, Indiana University. Juan Pablo also is a GAB member of Endeavor.org and a member of the Legal Committee of the Latin American Venture Capital Association.