JOHN C. ABBOTT, Chief Executive Officer of Quepasa Corporation, has over 15
years of experience in strategic advisory and entrepreneurship. From 1992 to
2005, Mr. Abbott held several senior positions within JP Morgan’s Latin America
M&A team, focusing on advising many of the region’s leading industrial groups on
mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings. Since 2005, Mr. Abbott
has been an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Altos Hornos de Mexico, SA
(AHMSA), Mexico’s leading integrated steel producer. Among his responsibilities,
Mr. Abbott has led the negotiation of AHMSA’s $2 billion debt restructuring. In
addition, over the past two years, Mr. Abbott has led investor groups and has
participated in the executive committees of two startup efforts in Brazil,
namely Click Filmes Brazil’s first hotel video on demand business and
Industria de Entretenimento, an entertainment business that owns the rights to
the Pacha brand in Brazil among others. In 2006, Mr. Abbott assisted in the
formation of Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together, a San Antonio-based non-
profit group focused on improving Mexico-US relations. MATT maintains a
strategic partnership with Quepasa, through which both entities collaborate on
technological and community outreach initiatives. Mr. Abbott has spent a
significant part of his life in Latin America, having lived 13 years in Puerto
Rico, Uruguay and Brazil. He earned his AB in History from Stanford University
in 1992 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.
