Arnaud Ventura

Arnaud Ventura
Occupation Entrepreneur
Known for Co-Founder PlaNet Finance[1]
Founder MicroCred Group
mBank Holding[2]

Arnaud Ventura is an entrepreneur and co-founder of PlaNet Finance Group.[1] He is also the founder of MicroCred Group, a microfinance investment company; co-founder mBank Holding, a mobile banking microfinance group;[2] and co-founder of LH Forum, the Positive Economy Movement.[3]

Biography

As a young Internet entrepreneur, Arnaud Ventura proposed the idea of setting up an international organization using Internet to develop microfinance. In December 1997, Arnaud Ventura met with Jacques Attali who had developed the idea of a virtual bank using Internet to support microenterprise during an Aspen Institute conference. Both Jacques Attali and Arnaud Ventura worked together to create PlaNet Finance,[3] in Paris, in October 1998.

Before co-founding PlaNet Finance, Arnaud worked for BNP Paribas in France and Argentina. Prior to that Arnaud participated in the creation of two leading Internet providers in France and in Thailand (Club-Internet & Internet Thaïland).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 de Sa’Pinto, Martin (9 May 2008). "AG Prices May Test Microfinance Model". Daily News. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Smart To Power Macrofinance Bank". Manila Bulletin. 11 November 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fouquet, Helene (14 November 2006). "Attali Revels In His Many Lives". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 15 April 2013.