Andrés Freire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andrés Freire

Entrepreneur, businessperson, politician

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1972

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: businessperson, politician, entrepreneur

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Andrés "Andy" Freire (born January 14, 1972) is an Argentine entrepreneur and politician.
For almost two years, he has been Minister of Modernization, Innovation and Technology of the City of Buenos Aires.
He heads the list of pre-candidates to legislators of the City of Buenos Aires by the front #VamosJuntos. As an entrepreneur, he is globally recognized for co-founding and led Officenet (purchased by Staples in 2004), a company that revolutionized the industry of distribution (retail) of office supplies in Latin America raising over 50M USD (most of it after the Nasdaq 2000 crash) from investors including Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, George Soros, JP Morgan Chase, Warburg Pincus, KKR, Thomas H.
Lee Partners, FleetBoston Financial, GP Investimentos and Banco Santander. He is married to Romina Silvetti with whom he has four children: Tomás, Mateo, Sol and Emilia.