Antonio Peña
Antonio has 10 years experience in the IT industry developing different companies in LATAM all with great success. Antonio heads and manages Ikens Solutions Americas strategy; he is in charge of developing the Americas rollup of the company.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.altergaia.com |
| Industries: | Information Technology, Internet, Mobile |
| Skills: | Business, Corporate, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Law, Management, Negotiation, Public speaking, Sales |
| Location: | Buenos Aires |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Growing my group, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | Artificial Intelligence, digital media, entrepreneurs, mobile, mobile marketing, mobile monday, social networking, startups, web |
FULL BIO
Antonio studied Laws at Buenos Aires University (1992-1998) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, attending a specialization in “Derecho Informático y nuevas tecnologias”, in the same university. After graduation, Antonio started up Cardecom S.A developer of Novacash, a non banking debit card company, in Argentina. Novacash was the first non banking debit card system in Latin America for buying on internet, mobile phones and money send system. Antonio and his partner roll out the company through Latin America (1999-2001), developing offices in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, backed up by Venture Capital partners from Argentina and United States. In December 2000, the company signed a sale option with Western Union International, a First Data company. Antonio kept working at the company, and after a six month period, and the consolidation of the company. Antonio left the day to day activities in the company (2001) and started up with one of his partners in Novacash, Itegra (www.itegra.com.ar) a technology businesses development company. With Headquarters in Buenos Aires, ITegra developed different technology businesses in Argentina since 2001, such as Mobile2biz (www.mobile2biz.com and www.futmovil.com), merged in 2006 with Netpeople International (www.netpeople.com). MundoMovil S.A which after a successful rollup in Argentina was sold to Cargaya S.A. (www.cargaya.com) and TopKash International (www.topkash.com) a mobile-payment company. Today Antonio heads and manages Iken Solutions ( www.ikensolutions.com) strategy; he is in charge of developing the Americas rollup of the company
Antonio is also involved in the following organizations:
• General Manager Americas, Iken Solutions
• Co-founder and Chapter Organizer at Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
• Founder Altergaia
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Mobile Monday Buenos Aires |
| Position: | Co founder |
| Time period: | April 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. |
| Employer: | Altergaia |
| Position: | Partner |
| Time period: | June 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Altergaia is a technology investment and consulting company built by expert telecom and internet consultants with a razor-sharp focus in wireless telecom in Latin America. Our investment and consulting services cover corporate strategy, legal services, investment & adqusitions, Tax advisory, and business development across the entire wireless industry in the región.
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| Employer: | Iken Solutions |
| Position: | General Manager Américas |
| Description: | iKen Solutions, is a software product company specialized in intelligent business systems backed by hybrid AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques (expert system, case-based reasoning, neural networks and genetic algorithms). It is an IIT Bombay research spin-off. |
Antonio's Startups (4)
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Altergaia
Altergaia is a technology investment and consulting company built by expert telecom and internet consultants with a razor-sharp focus in wireless telecom in Latin America.
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Ikens Solutions
Iken, a software product company specialized in intelligent business systems backed by hybrid AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques (expert system, case-based reasoning, neural networks and genetic algorithms). It is an IIT Bombay research spin-off
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Orugga
Orugga is a mobile startup focused in developing mobile transactional solutions based in the Orugga platform. Our transactional platform facilitates fast, efficient, and secure transactions between consumers and merchants.
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MOOGA
Mooga is a patent pending viral, self learning mobile entertainment ecosystem incorporating Artificial Intelligence techniques to understand, track, predict & recommend mobile content based on individual user tastes, downloads & popular contents.