Antonio Peña
Co-founder & CEO at Pinggers
- Location
- Argentina
- Industry
- Wireless
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Antonio Peña's Overview
- Current
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CEO at Pinggers Advisor Partner at Iken Solutions Co-founder and President at Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
- Past
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Advisor Partner at Orugga - Mobile Innovation Founder at Altergaia Americas Regional Director at Cellent
- Education
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Universidad de Buenos Aires San Juan el Precursor
- Recommendations
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1 person has recommended Antonio
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Antonio Peña's Summary
Antonio is a lawyer and a serial technology entrepreneur.
He is the founder of Altergaia, a technology investment and consulting company built by expert telecom and internet consultants with a razor-sharp focus in wireless telecom in Latin America. Currently, Antonio is CEO an Co-founder at Pinggers.com an active advisor partner in companies such as Kidbox.net, Ikensolutions.com, Gucash.com and Bueeno.com.
Previously, Antonio was the Co-founder 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, 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. He has also co-founded companies such as Mobile2biz, the leading mobile solutions provider in Latam. In 2006 it merged with Netpeople International the biggest mobile provider in the region (nowadays a Zed´s company). And MundoMovil, a innovative electronic platform of prepaid products for retail chains which after a successful rollout in Argentina was sold to Cargaya.
Antonio, is also Co-founder and president of Mobile Monday Buenos Aires, a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials with presence in over 150 cities Worldwide.
Antonio Peña's Experience
CEO
Pinggers
December 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months)
Pinggers, Intelligent Daily Deal Aggregator.
Pinggers is a dramatically easier way for you to find deals on the best daily deals sites. Tell us your tastes and interests with our easy-to-use visual interface and see which deals are most suited for you.
pinggers.com
Advisor Partner
Iken Solutions
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry
August 2008 – Present (3 years 7 months)
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.
Our Vision is to make every software product and solution intelligence-enabled and add intelligence in every business process. Business intelligence (BI) and knowledge automation (KA) play a crucial role in organization's success. The BI makes sense of data available while KA helps in creating, sharing and disseminating organizational knowledge assets. Our unique core technology helps to automate human expertise as well as derive intelligence from available and past data. We have added extensions to our core technology framework to develop solutions addressing specific problem categories.
Co-founder and President
Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
December 2007 – Present (4 years 3 months)
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.
Advisor Partner
Orugga - Mobile Innovation
October 2009 – November 2010 (1 year 2 months)
Orugga, chiefly engaged in creating mobile transactional solutions and value added services for network operators, enterprises and money transfer companies.
Founder
Altergaia
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
June 2007 – December 2009 (2 years 7 months)
Altergaia, it's an exciting web based community of entrepreneurs, software engineers, and catalysts that facilitate smarter and faster startup growth.
Americas Regional Director
Cellent
September 2007 – August 2008 (1 year)
Cellent Technologies is a dynamic and forward-thinking, value added services company, focused on increasing revenues across all areas of the global mobile data value chain. Our business activities include global SMS services, mobile content and entertainment solutions, research and development, artificial intelligence platforms, managed messaging services, mobile marketing platforms and mobile micro-commerce platforms.
Cellent was formed in 2003 and is a privately held company. Cellent Technologies also hold a strategic stake in Iken Solutions - An Indian Institute of Bombay incubated company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence solutions.
Founder
www.itegra.com.ar
January 2001 – September 2007 (6 years 9 months)
ITegra is a Technology Partner and venture capital company incorporated in 2001, its goal is to promote, support and develop new entrepreneurial projects through the management and the investment of capital in return for a participation in the new company.
South cone regional director
Netpeople
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry
January 2005 – January 2007 (2 years 1 month)
NetPeople offers a variety of solutions and mobile applications to satisfy the increasing demand of interactive marketing strategies that nowadays companies have. In the SMS area or third generation (3G) we offer competitive tools thanks to our platform, developed by our group of engineers, allowing us to offer versatility and flexibility.
Antonio Peña's Education
Universidad de Buenos Aires
1990 – 1996
San Juan el Precursor
1977 – 1989
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- Honors and Awards:
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Iken Solutions - Winner of the Tie-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008
Iken Solutions - Microsoft Start-Up Accelerator Progam Company , July 2008
Iken Solutions - Silver Award Winner , "Best Technology Innovation" at the Mobile Content Awards in London, UK
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