Bismarck Lepe Founder & Executive Chairman, Wizeline

Bismarck Lepe, founder and Executive Chairman of Wizeline, is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He has led Wizeline through multiple funding rounds, expanding the company to include business and delivery centers in seven countries and talent in over 15 countries. He served as CEO from the company’s inception up until April of 2024, when he moved into the role of Executive Chairman.

Bismarck is Mexican-American and the son of two immigrants from a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. He left a successful career path as an early employee at Google to start his own online video platform company, Ooyala, which sold for US$400 million to Telstra in 2014.

He is passionate about driving economic growth and developing careers in the communities where Wizeline has operations through the investment in education and development of technology infrastructure.

He has been credited as having contributed to the transformation of Guadalajara into a technology hub through StartupGDL and Wizeline Academy. He has generated over 1,500 jobs and attracted hundreds of millions in investments for companies with operations in Mexico and Silicon Valley.

For more than a decade, Bismarck has pioneered Mexico-Silicon Valley cross-border collaboration with Ooyala and now at Wizeline and StartupGDL.