Joseph D. Argilagos

Joseph Argilagos is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Viamericas Corporation, a consumer focused money transfer company with operations in forty-five U.S. states and throughout Latin America. Viamericas has a rapidly expanding presence in Canada, Southeast Asia, and Africa with call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines.

Joseph is also the owner of Fortress Armored Services Inc., a Los Angeles based company focused on Cash Management solutions.

His background also includes being a Founding Partner in Angel Interactive Capital, a New York based venture capital fund.

Prior to that, Joseph was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in New York. Over his 16 year career at Merrill, he was one of the persons responsible for establishing the fixed and equity linked derivative business as Global Head of the Investor Strategies Group. He was appointed Chairman of Merrill Lynch International Bank and was Co-Head of the firm’s Global Foreign Exchange division.

Joseph has served on the Advisory Board of the MIT Financial Engineering Tract. He is currently a Board Member of Home Boy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.

Joseph is also Chairman of Viamistad, an organization providing education, recreational activities and support to adults and children with special needs in Guatemala.

He graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1983 and currently lives in LA.