Antonio Peña

Current

Advisor Partner at Orugga - Mobile Innovation
General Manager Americas at Iken Solutions
Co-founder and Chapter Organizer at Mobile Monday Buenos Aires

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Past

Founder at Altergaia
Americas Regional Director at Cellent
Founder at www.itegra.com.ar

South cone regional director at Netpeople
Founder at Novacash

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Industry

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Antonio Peña’s Summary

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

Antonio Peña’s Experience

Advisor Partner

Orugga - Mobile Innovation

(Wireless industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)

Orugga, chiefly engaged in creating mobile transactional solutions and value added services for network operators, enterprises and money transfer companies.
General Manager Americas

Iken Solutions

(Wireless industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 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 Chapter Organizer

Mobile Monday Buenos Aires

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

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.
Founder

Altergaia

(Privately Held; 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

(Wireless industry)

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

(Information Technology and Services industry)

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

(Information Services 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.
Founder

Novacash

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1999 — December 2001 (3 years )

Novacash, was 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.

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Antonio Peña’s Groups:

Colaborador Revista de derecho Informático Alfa-Redi - Derechos & nuevas Tecnologías ( www.alfa-redi.org)
Founder Mobile Monday Buenos Aires ( www.momobuenosaires.com )