Marvin Nahmias

Marvin has extensive experience leading and working in the areas of Engineering, Product and Software Development, IT and Digital Innovation in both startups and corporate businesses. He was cofounder and CTO of a FinTech Stealth in LATAM, and previously was the Chief Innovation & Information Technology Officer of Grupo Lala as well as the Head of CoE Technology & Innovation at Coca-Cola Femsa. He is currently on the board of several startups in Silicon Valley and Mexico, such as ExtendedSuites, BillPocket, and 99minutos. On the other hand, Marvin is an entrepreneur by birth; one of his latest adventures, his passion for Mexican Wine, led him to found Vinofrom Mexico and Vinicola Urbana, and he dealt the North American and national markets selling wine directly to consumers and introducing a new model of electronic sale regulated by Internet, putting it on the map in magazines such as WineSpectator, among others. In 2009, Marvin co-founded the ExtendedSuites hotel chain, already having investments of globally recognized funds and growing throughout Mexico with a new extended stay model. In 2008 he co-founded Financiera Alcanza - 2nd SOFOL regulated for consumer credit, acquired by Santander Consumer Finance. In his professional life he has developed as CIO and CTO of companies such as Pagatodo, OneLogin, Tana Holdings, SportsYa.com, Español.com and Ultima Comunicaciones. At the beginning, he held several positions in engineering, technology, security, strategy, software development, network design and innovation at Verizon (Mobile, Enterprise, Government Systems & Corporate), where he ended up as the VP of Technology Strategy and Development of Digital Products, Security and Global Sourcing from NYC. Marvin is an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer from ITESM-CEM, has a Master's Degree in Electronics Engineering and Networks from Cornell University, and innovation and marketing courses from other recognized universities. His hobbies, apart from wine and food, are spending a lot of time with his family, friends and dogs. He actively supports several foundations with published books, as "Mexico de mis Sabores"; when he can, he builds MakerSpaces, and he is very passionate about exponential technologies where he constantly continues with his own experiments.