Wences Casares & Meyer Malka

May 18, 2011
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Wences Casares & Meyer Malka are the Co-Founders of Bling Nation

Wences Casares is founder and co-CEO of Bling Nation, as well as a founding partner of private investment firm, MECK, Ltd. Bling Nation's mobile technology platform works to connect users' online and offline customer experiences. Businesses can build loyalty programs, while consumers gain seamless integration of smooth checkout experiences integrated with their social media presences. Casares previously founded Lemon Bank (www.lemon.com), a Brazilian retail bank for the poor, in June 2002. He is also the founder of Wanako Games (www.wanakogames.com), a US based developer of console videogames that seeks to leverage the creativity of Latin American talent. Wanako Games was sold to Vivendi Universal.

Meyer Malka is the Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director of Bling Nation, Ltd. In addition to his role at Bling Nation, Malka is a founding partner of MECK, Ltd., a private investment firm based in Santiago, Chile. Malka has been instrumental in several technology and financial services endeavors. He helped develop Patagon, an online brokerage and Latin America's first comprehensive Internet financial services portal, by founding and developing its Venezuelan branch. He was also a founding member of Classified Media Group, an online classified ads company focusing on Venezuela, Colombia and Central America, which was later sold to MercadoLibre (Nasdaq: MELI). Malka also founded and serves on the board of a Wendy's Hamburger franchise for Venezuela. In addition, Malka founded the broker dealer Heptagon Financial Group and is a board member of Climax magazine. Malka is an Economist from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.