Bitcoin’s service provider, BitPay, which specializes in enterprise solutions for the digital currency, has established Latin American headquarters in Argentina. The new organization is located in the Bitcoin Embassy Buenos Aires with several other Bitcoin companies like Fundación Bitcoin Argentina. Initially, BitPay will employ six employees. The roles will be one business development manager for the region and five software engineers. Check out the team roster below.
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1. Alberto Liver Vega is BitPay’s Regional Manager in Latin America for Business Development. He has a diverse background in technology and international relation. In the past 15 years of his experience, Alberto has worked on business and higher education agreements with organizations and companies like SAP, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Micros-Fidelio, plus several NGOs and governments.
2. Matías Alejo García, a Nuclear Engineer with a MBA from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, will lead the BitPay Argentina developer team. Matías experience includes a highly successful global movie recommendation site founded in 2008 called Cinefis.com. In 2012, Cinefis made a joint venture with Netmovies BR, which ultimately lead to Matías becoming Netmovies’ CTO.
3. Also joining the ranks of BitPay’s Argentina headquarters is Manuel Aráoz and Juan Ignacio Sosa López. Manuel Aráoz is a software engineer from Buenos Aires who created proofofexistence.com back in 2013. Juan Ignacio Sosa Lopez is a graphic designer with a degree from the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino and has worked with popular publications such as National Geographic.
4. Mario Colque and Gustavo Maximiliano Cortez are the remaining members of the team in Argentina. Mario Colque has 10 years’ experience in web and software development. The last six years he has worked on the open-source Tuquito GNU/Linux Distribution. Gustavo Maximiliano Cortez has worked in web development for two years and helped start the local Linux user group in Tucumán.
It comes as no surprise to see a BitPay headquarters in Latin America, especially after the success Bitcoin has had in Argentina. According to BNAmericas, the digital currency company favored Argentina due to a couple of factors. The first being the instability of the Argentine peso, also extensive capital controls and regulations on purchasing U.S. dollars, and lastly, the relatively high internet and e-commerce penetration. The website also reports that a range of businesses in Argentina now accept Bitcoin as an official form of payment, including hotel and car rental services.
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