Marcos Galperin
Background
Marcos Galperin is an Argentine billionaire entrepreneur who earned his undergraduate degree in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Role at MercadoLibre, Inc.
Marcos Galperin is the visionary founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of MercadoLibre, Inc. While at Stanford in 1999, Galperin conceived MercadoLibre to overcome the fragmentation of Latin American retail. For over 25 years, Galperin guided MercadoLibre through the dot-com crash, built Mercado Pago into the region's largest fintech, engineered the Mercado Envios logistics network, and scaled the business to a $95B public titan, earning recognition as Latin America's foremost tech visionary.