• Bio

    Mario Chamorro is a creative wellness and happiness activist with a strong entrepreneurial drive based in Silicon Valley. He is the co-founder and CEO of OYE. Before, Mario was the Head of Latin America for Coursera where he was responsible to bring the best education to more than 16 million learners in the region. His work has been featured in the popular press including Fast Company, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, among others.

     

    Before Coursera, Mario served as a VP of Marketing for SOMA messenger, where he secured 10 million downloads within 30 days of launching the app. It became the fastest-growing messaging app in internet history.

    Mario is also the founder of Make it Happy and Vaca Bacana, social ventures dedicated to the prioritization of sustainable happiness in our work, our communities, and our governments. His parents call him “Happy Man” and the media calls him the “Happiness Ambassador."

     

    Mario grew up next to an active volcano in Pasto, Colombia. In 2004 he left his country, moved to Boston, and learned English while waiting tables, parking cars, and teaching salsa lessons. A few years of hard work and good faith resulted in a Master’s degree from Columbia University. He has held several positions on Wall Street, worked as a consultant in Boston, and organized anti-corruption programs for the Colombian government.

     

    Mario is considered an international ambassador for happiness and an ed-tech activist who has spread smiles across three continents and swapped stories with politicians, former guerrilla combatants, and countless community leaders. His work has touched millions of lives in the private and public sectors. Mario has presented at TEDx events internationally, given a talk at Google Headquarters, spoken before a U.N. panel on happiness, built workshops for socially conscious corporations, coordinated major grassroots activations in the streets of cities worldwide, and mobilized student groups and universities around the globe.

     

    As of today, Mario's initiatives have touched the lives of +45 million people in +33 countries.

     

    Mario's BIO was written by Riley Johndonnell - Founder of Surface Magazine.

    Mario's BIO can be also found on Wikipedia.

  • "My purpose is to use technology

    to make people happier"

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