MECK board members are: Meyer Malka, Guillermo Kirchner, Wenceslao Casares and Michael Esrubilsky.

Meyer Malka is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. (twitter @mickymalka) Meyer as been instrumental in several technology, financial services and consumer retail endeavors.  He develop online brokerage, Patagon, Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet financial services portal. The company expanded its online banking services to the United States, Spain and Germany and was later sold to Banco Santander, where Meyer was the interim CEO for the Banking division. He helped and participated in the establishment of Wendy’s Hamburgers operations in Venezuela. In his leadership roll at Meck he founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population, which Meyer and his partners grew into the largest private micro-finance institution in Brazil. He was also founding member of Classified Media Group, an online classified ads company focusing on Venezuela, Colombia and Central America that was sold to MercadoLibre (MELI). He is currently founder, co-chief executive officer of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Bling Nation®, a provider of mobile payments services that connects financial institutions, businesses and consumers through mobile tap-and-pay purchases at the point of sale. Meyer was born in London, England and graduated an Economist from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. Meyer hobbies are basketball, trekking, snow skiing and going to the movies.

Michael Esrubilsky is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He developed Patagon Brazil (www.patagon.com ) and later founded and developed Lemon Bank.  Among the businesses of which Michael is in charge are Lemon Bank and the payment networks associated with it like MuitoFácil, Ltda. and MultiBank S.A. Before joining Patagon, Michael worked in the investment bank Goldman Sachs & Co., in New York City, as a financial analyst in the area of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America.  Michael is an Economist from Harvard University.

Wenceslao Casares is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. (twitter @wences). Wenceslao is an entrepreneur specialized in technology and finance. He is currently founder, co-chief executive officer of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Bling Nation®, a provider of mobile payments services that connects financial institutions, businesses and consumers through mobile tap-and-pay purchases at the point of sale.  He founded Patagon (www.patagon.com) . He also founded Wanako Games (www.wanakogames.com), and Internet Argentina (www.interar.com.ar ). Wenceslao was selected “Young Global Leader”, class of 2011, by the World Economic Forum of Davos (www.webforum.org  ) and as Endeavor Entrepreneur by Endeavor (www.endeavor.org ), an organization of which he later became a board member.  As part of its nonbusiness activities, he founded the Fundación Síntesis (www.fundacionsintesis.cl ). Wenceslao studied business administration for three years at the Universidad de San Andrés, in Buenos Aires, and completed the Owner/President Management program in the Harvard University.

Guillermo Kirchner is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was one of the founding partners Patagon (www.patagon.com ) . Guillermo has worked in the investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co in New York, as a financial analyst in the area of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America.  He has a degree in business administration from the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires.

Diego Valenzuela is the legal vice president of MECK and general manager of Inversiones MECK Chile, Ltda.  Diego also participated in the development of the Patagon project, which he joined in early 2000 as the Latin America lawyer at the project’s headquarters, in Miami, Florida, Before joining the group, he worked at prestigious law firm in Chile (Cariola & Company, as an associate) and in Spain (Cutrecasas, as a visiting lawyer). Diego received his law degree from the Universidad Católica de Chile and took postgraduate courses at various institutions in the United States (P.I.L. Harvard Law School 2001, INTA 2002).

Victor Dachille is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of MECK. Victor is certified public accountant of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, in Caracas, Venezuela. He worked at accounting/finance department of well-known companies based in Venezuela (manufacture, finance and services), and then he joined KPMG, where he specialized in diverse accounting, consulting and tributary topics. He was the CFO of Patagon Venezuela before joining MECK.