Marcos Galperin
#999Marcos Eduardo Galperin Lebach is an Argentine businessman and technology entrepreneur, best known as co-founder of MercadoLibre. He led the company as Chief Executive Officer for more than two decades and became Executive Chairman on January 1, 2026. With an estimated net worth of about US$7.1 billion, as of September 2026, he is widely regarded as Argentina’s richest individual.
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xAI Grokipedia EnrichedMarcos Eduardo Galperin Lebach is an Argentine businessman and technology entrepreneur, best known as co-founder of MercadoLibre. He led the company as Chief Executive Officer for more than two decades and became Executive Chairman on January 1, 2026. With an estimated net worth of about US$7.1 billion, as of September 2026, he is widely regarded as Argentina’s richest individual.
- 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.
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Marcos Galperin Marcos Galperin Marcos Eduardo Galperin (born 31 October 1971) is an Argentine billionaire entrepreneur renowned as the co-founder, former chief executive officer, and current...