Profil Financier
Marcos Galperin occupe actuellement le rang #579 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $7.0 B ($0 sur 24h).
Marcos Galperin is founder of e-commerce platform MercadoLibre, the eBay of Latin America.
MercadoLibre, which operates in 18 Latin American countries and Portugal, went public in 2007 on the Nasdaq.
In 2026, after 26 years at the helm, Galperin stepped down as CEO and became executive chairman of the company.
He worked at Argentine oil company YPF for three years and as a summer intern at JPMorgan before starting MercadoLibre in 1999.
eBay, once MercadoLibre's largest shareholder with 18%, sold its stake in 2016 for more than $1 billion.
Galperin helped organize Argentina's first-ever presidential debate ahead of the country's 2015 elections.
Galperin hails from Argentine business royalty. His grandfather started Sadesa, a tannery that has grown into one of the country's largest leather manufacturers.