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Co-CEO Meyer Malka is based in Palo Alto, California. He is Co-CEO of BlingNation and a founding partner of MECK, Ltd, a private investment firm based in Santiago, Chile. Malka participated in the development of the Internet financial services portal Patagon by founding and developing its Venezuelan branch. After Patagon established a presence in Latin America, the United States, and Europe, it was sold to Banco Santander, where he was the interim CEO of the Spaniard Banco Openbank (Santander’s phone and online banking). Malka was a founding member of Classified Media Group (Tucarro.com, Tuinmueble), an online classified ads business focused on Venezuela, Colombia and Central America. Classified Media Group emerged as a leader in each of its markets and was sold to EBay’s partner in Latin America; MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI). In 2002 Malka along with his partners in MECK, Ltd. founded Banco Lemon, a retail bank for the underbanked in Brazil which they still own. Today Banco Lemon is Brazil's largest microfinance institution in Brazil. Meyer also founded Wendy’s Hamburger Franchise for Venezuela, and the broker dealer Heptagon Financial Group. He is a board member of Climax magazine and Wenco Servicios de Comida Rapida (Wendy’s franchisee). Meyer is an Economist from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas - Venezuela.

(Source: BlingNation)