Marina Díaz Ibarra

About Marina Díaz Ibarra

Marina Díaz Ibarra is a successful executive with a proven track record in developing digital businesses through innovative technologies, marketing tools, and creative sales strategies. She has extensive international experience driving transformational programs across multiple industries. She seamlessly navigates both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to drive growth while enabling team members to perform to their full potential.

She is a Board Member and Independent Advisor of Bitso, a platform to buy, sell and use cryptocurrencies, with operations in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Bitso is the first cryptocurrency platform in Latin America to be regulated and the sixth worldwide to obtain a license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.

In addition, she is a Member and Advisor to the IFC (International Finance Corporation), the global development institution belonging to the World Bank, which drives growth exclusively in the private sector in developing countries. As General Manager of Mercadolibre.com (2015-17), Marina Díaz Ibarra was in charge of three very different large markets, Argentina, Chile and Peru, where she developed and accelerated the brand implementation process in an innovative way throughout the region.

Prior to her time at Mercadolibre, Marina Díaz Ibarra held the position of Emerging Markets Apparel Manager for Nike, participating in the World Cup project, and was Global Senior Product Manager for Under Armour, both positions based in the United States. Also in Argentina, she held the position of Corporate Marketing Manager at Puratos and the position of Regional Brand Manager for Unilever in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, from where she managed the Dove brand for all of Latin America.

In 2017, she decided to commit to a long-overdue vocation of helping entrepreneurs in Latin America, founding DeltaX, an impact startup accelerator, in collaboration with Singularity University. Later, she was also Managing Partner of Wolox, a digital disruption company, dedicated to providing technology development teams for startups and large companies, which was sold to Accenture in 2021.

She studied Economics at Di Tella University, Master in Project Valuation at the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA) and MBA at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.