YellowPepper, a mobile banking and payment company focused on Latin America, announced this week that Christian Hernandez, co-founder and managing partner at White Star Capital, has been elected to join the Advisory Board, effective immediately.
Hernandez has over 16 years of operating experience in technology companies, developing and scaling products and businesses internationally. Prior to co-founding White Star Capital, Heranndez worked at Facebook and led the international expansion of the company's Business Development, Platform and Gaming Partnerships groups. He previously held leadership roles in the US and Europe at Google and Microsoft and started his career in technology at MicroStrategy, a startup he joined prior to its 1999 IPO. “His solid business acumen and deep understanding of the financial sector will be key to our ongoing efforts of revolutionizing the mobile payment sector,” said Serge Elkiner, CEO at YellowPepper.
YellowPepper is focused on transforming commerce in Latin America with Yepex, a mobile payment platform that provides financial institutions, corporations and merchants a means to revolutionize the purchasing experience. The Miami based company also offers customized solutions to top financial groups and corporations in the region that currently enable over 5 million monthly active users to execute over 30 million transactions.