We're welcoming investors
5 engineers walked into a bar... Reza Jalili and Mark Hochberg met each other at MIT and stayed in touch over the years. Kamyar Zare and Reza met while both worked at the IBM Research Center in New York. Reza and Joaquin Ruiseco met while each was studying engineering in Boston. This venture's advisors and board are experts in their fields, accomplished, and generous with their time.
Early investors have been supportive and enabled our development to date. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you, get to know you, have you on our side, supporting our goal of bringing Money over IP to the world of retail transactions, the IoT universe, and globally enabling fast, safe, cheap and private transactions, with full control over transaction specifics.
Our management team, Directors and advisors have had strong careers in Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship - our history includes IBM, Microsoft, SWIFT, BlackRock, PayByTouch, Adobe, LiquidMarket/Yahoo!, the Gates Foundation and many more.
We all have worked hard, earned, and learned. We are proud to be together tackling a really big market: money, payments... something so basic as earning a living by selling stuff or services only works if you can get paid. We believe we have a better way to pay and get paid.
We work as a distributed team, providing near 24-hour leadership across regions and languages. We stay in continual touch via WhatsApp, phone and Google Meet. We use collaborative tools for doing and managing most of our work and our workflows, maximizing our ability to contribute individually and as a team.
Joaquin Ruiseco ( Medellin, Colombia )
CEO
Strategy, Investments, Startups, 20+ years Serial Entrepreneur, Global Online Marketplaces, Yahoo!, NBCi.
IMBA / BS EE
Joaquin Ruiseco ( Medellin, Colombia )
CEO
Strategy, Investments, Startups, 20+ years Serial Entrepreneur, Global Online Marketplaces, Yahoo!, NBCi.
IMBA / BS EE
Reza Jalili ( Montpellier, FR )
Technology
Software Architect, Payments, UX. IBM Research, Wall Street, Adobe. Serial Entrepreneur, 30+ commercialized patents.
MIT MS/BS EE
Mark Hochberg ( New York )
Customer Success
Complex financial systems; Integrations & Customer Success.
21+ years BlackRock/ Aladdin, 6+ years CS First Boston.
MIT Computer Science and Engineering
ADVISORS
Ignacio Mas (Barcelona)
Digital Money expert and e-money pioneer
Co-founder at the Digital Frontiers Institute; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Vodafone Group; DoCoMo interTouch; Intel Capital; MIT and Harvard
Ram Puppala (New Jersey)
CTO Financial Services, Serial Entrepreneur, MIT Sloan
CTO of ACI Worldwide; CTO FiServ & State Street. ex-Chief Digital Officer at Metropolitan Commercial Bank
Andre Cappon (New York)
Management Consulting for Financial Services
MIT BS (Math), Columbia U. (Operations Research); Strategy Consulting for Financial Institutions; Previously: Oliver Wyman, Booz Allen, Accenture, OECD
Leonard Schrank
CEO of SWIFT for 15 years (1992-2007). Currently Chairman of the American European Community Association, Brussels.
Previously was Sr. Advisor in the Technology Advantage and Financial Institutions practices of The Boston Consulting Group from 2017-2022, Advisor to HSBC’s Group Board Committee on Compliance and Cyber-security from 2013 – 2017, and recently completed a five-year term (2011-2016) as a member of the MIT Corporation (Board of Trustees).
Robert Ziegler
Advisor on Card Payments, US Banking Systems, and Regulations. The Inventor of PaySecure, Online PIN-debit payments.
Ready and capable to join a high-growth venture with autonomy and drive to bring your best game?
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