Daniel Vogel

CEO & Co-Founder

2017

President & Co-Founder

2015 - 2017

Bitso is a currency exchange - offering a bridge for participants to connect between novel financial platforms, like Bitcoin and Ripple, and the Mexican Peso. Our advanced banking integrations, best practice security standards, and strong focus on regulatory compliance, make Bitso the de facto choice for Bitcoin and Ripple operations in the country. Advanced APIs allow our consumers to programmatically interact with our systems, automate their operations, and build applications on top of our services. Our customers range from Mexican nationals wishing to invest in bitcoin through corporations looking to ease cross-border payment pains. There are a number of Bitcoin exchanges around the world, but few are as well-placed as Bitso. Mexico is the endpoint of the largest remittance corridor in the world (originating in the U.S.); one that in 2014 was reported at over $20 billion USD and expected to keep growing. The 15th largest economy in the world, Mexico has free trade agreements with 46 countries. 2014 exports amounted to over $405 billion USD, imports to over $407 billion. Mexico's vibrant citizens are young (median age is 27 years), well communicated (mobile subscription penetration is over 91%), and have growing access to internet (penetration in 2014 was 43%, with 15% growth). This makes Mexico an excellent candidate to migrate towards faster, safer, and cheaper cross-border payments that leverage state of the art technology. We are strongly driven by a desire to improve the inefficient business models of remittance companies, and have witnessed first-hand the disproportionately high fees paid by underprivileged Mexicans living in the US who send aid money home. Our hope is to make a positive impact in this space - a social mission which is our single biggest motivator. We are committed to forging the foundation for a new cryptocurrency economy in Mexico - one that can transform remittances and make truly frictionless international commerce a possibility.

Partner

2015

Partner & Co-founder

2021

Empowering Latin America's early-stage entrepreneurs. Led by founders from across the region.

Board Member

2017

Product Manager

2012 - 2013

Member of the Strategy Council, responsible for the company’s vision, mission, and strategy Led a cross-functional team to uncover and streamline Quantcast’s operational procedures Identified and executed on Quantcast’s first acquisition: MakeGood Software Filed patent applications on various topics, such as improved online advertising attribution and privacy centric feature analysis for mobile devices

Senior Software Engineer

2010 - 2012

Lead architect of Quantcast’s Real Time Bidding platform, which catalyzed Quantcast's data and became the company's revenue-generating product Became the company’s youngest Senior Engineer Member of the Architecture Council, responsible for overseeing all technical projects Worked closely on several highly sensitive projects directly with the executive team Received several awards and recognitions for outstanding ideas and contributions Developed Quantcast's high-performance network edge--a world-class, globally-distributed data infrastructure that serves over 25 billion Internet events at peak loads of over 450,000 real-time requests per second each and every day. At the time it was one of the largest and most advanced distributed computing systems on the planet Low Latency, High Throughput Systems Real Time Bidding Real Time Computation of Data Streams Real Time Analysis of Trends Large Data Synchronization Across Nodes Distributed Messaging Queuing

Software Engineer

2009 - 2010

Real Time Bidding and Targeting Real Time R&D Integrations for Mobile Applications, Silverlight, Flash, OSMF, JS, HTML5Video

Intern

2008 - 2008

Programmed a set of innovative applications to discover failures in the company’s working model. Built a comprehensive web-crawling application to mine and display data. Handled and revamped Quantcast’s Flash tracking service, used by hundreds of millions of people every month.

Safety & Chassis Electronics Intern

2007 - 2007

Led an international team of eight individuals in restructuring the manufacturing reporting process of the company’s plants located in South Korea, China, Mexico, Germany, Malaysia, and France. Programmed the division’s website and implemented new internal communication protocols in order to automate processes and make information easily accessible for managers worldwide.

Manufacturing Optimization Intern

2006 - 2006

Performed several analyses of the company’s operations in order to improve them. Implemented the aforementioned analyses by working with different teams.

Founder and Co-Owner

1999 - 2005

Designed, programmed, and maintained a website for Remote Controlled (RC) Cars with an Australian partner. The site became the number one RC Movie site on the internet according to several websites and magazines.

Summer Intern

2003 - 2003

Worked for a Telmex subsidiary, CENTEC, managing the local area network.