A Dedicated Team
Alistair Copeland has over 20 years of experience as an innovative business leader and highly knowledgeable technology expert. His focus on customer success and integrity has earned him the reputation as a trusted advisor to the numerous clients who seek out his services. During the previous decade, Mr. Copeland was the Managing Director of NashTech — a division of Harvey Nash, based in London. He led the expansive build-outs of new markets, drove significant headcount growth, and managed a successful P & L. Mr. Copeland is a graduate of the Queen’s University Belfast with a Bachelor of Science (Major in Computer Science)
After graduating at Hanoi Law University and working at the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam, Tuan changed career paths to fulfill his passion: developing video games. As the first Game Designer at IEC Global, he was a key component of the A team, helping elevate the company from a small start-up to an industry player. He was also a Game Designer at We ESCAPE — the biggest Escape Room franchise in Vietnam over the last decade. Additionally, he was CEO of Gymath — a gamified educational program. With years of experience in the industry, he considers the interactive element in games to be a gateway to deeply exploring the art of storytelling.
David is responsible for leveraging the roles that sales and marketing play in driving growth for the business, as well as aligning all revenue-generating departments and building strategic partnerships. David has 20 years’ experience in the online payments industry and has spent most of his career developing sales and strategic partnerships channels.
Prior to joining VeryPay, he was Business Development Director for two start-ups. These were FXCPay — a disruptive multi-currency payments solution, and Hokan — a private key management technology provider for crypto custodians. Prior to this, he was VP of Global Partnerships for WorldPay’s e-commerce division. His team developed profitable commercial channels with leading technology platforms and systems integrators across multiple vertical markets.
David has a deep passion for business psychology. He is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner, Cognitive Hypnotherapist, Trainer and Coach. He has led several international leadership programmes and has spent the last 20 years building expert teams.
Andrey has over 20 years of progressive technology development and executive management experience within the card payments industry. Andrey has held VP and CTO positions with leading point-of-sale terminal manufacturers and VARs, including Lipman, VeriFone, ExaDigm, PAX, Dejavoo Systems and Castles Technology. He provides vision, strategy and direction through the full product life cycle — from inception to implementation, market introduction, and maintenance. Andrey holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degrees in Information Technology and Computer Science from Novosibirsk Technical University in Novosibirsk, Russia. Andrey is a US national.
Christian A. Ongecu looks after our business development agenda across Africa based in Uganda, East Africa. He leverages his knowledge of the telecommunications business in the region, his business development and leadership experience to engage with telecommunications and banking industry to present and nurture the VeryPay unique value proposition to operational revenue generating business.
Christian prior to working with VeryPay was Sales Director for the Growth markets at Airtel Uganda and a business development consultant with Project Last Mile in Africa. This experience making up his 2 decades in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry with the Coca-Cola Company in Uganda with stints in Kenya, Tanzania, Diageo Uganda - Uganda Breweries Limited and Kimberly Clark Uganda and Rwanda.
He is a devout Christian and Rotarian drawn to getting work done excellently, making things simpler, better, more efficient, relies on fact-driven decision-making, and uses strategic stakeholder engagement to solve business and community challenges.
Tam Vo is the head of SmartDev’s HR department, keeping an eye on employee affairs in the company. With a deep understanding of the IT field, and experience in sectors such as hospitality, Tam Vo has strong background in admin, T&D, employer branding, talent acquisition, and HR management. With a positive, results-oriented attitude and a amiable personality, Tam is a perfect fit for the job and happily takes on new challenges.
Product Owner / Project manager with more than 12 years' experience, 7 as a software engineer, 5 as manager, I am now in charge of technology directing and managing Scrum projects related to FinTech. I belong to my previous companies' pioneers in Agile and Scrum as I practiced Scrum development for 7 years and became Scrum Master on mobile and web projects. I'm passionate about new technologies, video games and agile. I often participate in agile conferences and Scrum Master training.
Anouk Summermatter has over 18 years of commercial, intellectual property, and executive management experience within the education, entertainment, and gaming industries. Anouk is a New York licensed attorney and has worked for law firms DLA Piper and Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. She has also held Associate General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Director positions with leading publicly traded and private companies including Take-Two Software Interactive Inc. and AFS Intercultural Programs Inc. She has worked across multiple continents and provides legal and risk management strategy, vision and direction. Anouk holds a Master’s Degree (MA) from La Sorbonne law school (Paris), a Bachelor’s degree (LLB) from King’s College of London Law School, as well as an Executive Diploma from INSEAD Business School and a degree from Cornell law school. Anouk is a Swiss national.
Nguyen Le has 14 years' experience in Software Development. He is an experienced Agile coach, with a strong track record in in the outsourcing/offshoring industry. Nguyen is a qualified engineer with a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) focused in IT from RMIT University. Nguyen has honed his skills in a number of European, American and Japanese firms working in Vietnam. He is also a founder of Agile Developer community at Da Nang, which helps developers improve their knowledge.
With up to 30 year experience in IT, Yurii is leading the Presales team of Verysellgroup to bring comprehensive and optimized consultancy for our customers to get business outcome. He can work well with business process & digital transformation professional with expertise in Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insurance & Financial Services.
His lastest company Wallet Factory was a big name in the financial services. He was responsible for Technical & Delivery ownership of the line of products such as Digital Wallet, Reward & Loyalty Management, and Card Management creating financial ecosystems to fight financial inclusion inequality in emerging markets in MENA and LATAM.
Yurii has both academic and practical approach thanks to his acquisition of Certifications from Big Names in Tech: Microsoft Certified System Engineer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified Scrum Master as well as a Microsoft Certified trainer and Cisco Certified Network Associate.
Fernando is a self-taught fullstack blockchain engineer with a background in environmental science. He co-founded the Carribbean Blockchain Network which grew into what is now Kolektivo. As such he has over 3 years of experience in the blockchain industry working in multiple areas including decentralized autonomous organization, Non-fungible tokens, blockchain data and more recently cryptocurrency wallets. He believes that the blockchain industry is laying the groundwork for everlasting innovative social, political and economic transformative outcomes. He is very passionate about the idea of applying blockchain technology to collective forms of economic organizing.
Luan bring to SmartDev over 14 years of experience in accounting and finance in many different industries, including banking, manufacturing, trading and international education services. During her career, Luan has held many critical positions in multinational companies, and she also contributed many innovative ideas to businesses through both growth and recovery phases. She has a deep understanding of the challenges of long-term financial planning and sustainability, business development and annual/multi-year budgeting. She graduated from Hue Economics University, majoring in business finance and accounting.
Alistair Copeland has over 20 years of experience as an innovative business leader and highly knowledgeable technology expert. His focus on customer success and integrity has earned him the reputation as a trusted advisor to the numerous clients who seek out his services. During the previous decade, Mr. Copeland was the Managing Director of NashTech — a division of Harvey Nash, based in London. He led the expansive build-outs of new markets, drove significant headcount growth, and managed a successful P & L. Mr. Copeland is a graduate of the Queen’s University Belfast with a Bachelor of Science (Major in Computer Science)
After graduating at Hanoi Law University and working at the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam, Tuan changed career paths to fulfill his passion: developing video games. As the first Game Designer at IEC Global, he was a key component of the A team, helping elevate the company from a small start-up to an industry player. He was also a Game Designer at We ESCAPE — the biggest Escape Room franchise in Vietnam over the last decade. Additionally, he was CEO of Gymath — a gamified educational program. With years of experience in the industry, he considers the interactive element in games to be a gateway to deeply exploring the art of storytelling.
David is responsible for leveraging the roles that sales and marketing play in driving growth for the business, as well as aligning all revenue-generating departments and building strategic partnerships. David has 20 years’ experience in the online payments industry and has spent most of his career developing sales and strategic partnerships channels.
Prior to joining VeryPay, he was Business Development Director for two start-ups. These were FXCPay — a disruptive multi-currency payments solution, and Hokan — a private key management technology provider for crypto custodians. Prior to this, he was VP of Global Partnerships for WorldPay’s e-commerce division. His team developed profitable commercial channels with leading technology platforms and systems integrators across multiple vertical markets.
David has a deep passion for business psychology. He is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner, Cognitive Hypnotherapist, Trainer and Coach. He has led several international leadership programmes and has spent the last 20 years building expert teams.
Andrey has over 20 years of progressive technology development and executive management experience within the card payments industry. Andrey has held VP and CTO positions with leading point-of-sale terminal manufacturers and VARs, including Lipman, VeriFone, ExaDigm, PAX, Dejavoo Systems and Castles Technology. He provides vision, strategy and direction through the full product life cycle — from inception to implementation, market introduction, and maintenance. Andrey holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degrees in Information Technology and Computer Science from Novosibirsk Technical University in Novosibirsk, Russia. Andrey is a US national.
Christian A. Ongecu looks after our business development agenda across Africa based in Uganda, East Africa. He leverages his knowledge of the telecommunications business in the region, his business development and leadership experience to engage with telecommunications and banking industry to present and nurture the VeryPay unique value proposition to operational revenue generating business.
Christian prior to working with VeryPay was Sales Director for the Growth markets at Airtel Uganda and a business development consultant with Project Last Mile in Africa. This experience making up his 2 decades in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry with the Coca-Cola Company in Uganda with stints in Kenya, Tanzania, Diageo Uganda - Uganda Breweries Limited and Kimberly Clark Uganda and Rwanda.
He is a devout Christian and Rotarian drawn to getting work done excellently, making things simpler, better, more efficient, relies on fact-driven decision-making, and uses strategic stakeholder engagement to solve business and community challenges.
Tam Vo is the head of SmartDev’s HR department, keeping an eye on employee affairs in the company. With a deep understanding of the IT field, and experience in sectors such as hospitality, Tam Vo has strong background in admin, T&D, employer branding, talent acquisition, and HR management. With a positive, results-oriented attitude and a amiable personality, Tam is a perfect fit for the job and happily takes on new challenges.
Product Owner / Project manager with more than 12 years' experience, 7 as a software engineer, 5 as manager, I am now in charge of technology directing and managing Scrum projects related to FinTech. I belong to my previous companies' pioneers in Agile and Scrum as I practiced Scrum development for 7 years and became Scrum Master on mobile and web projects. I'm passionate about new technologies, video games and agile. I often participate in agile conferences and Scrum Master training.
Anouk Summermatter has over 18 years of commercial, intellectual property, and executive management experience within the education, entertainment, and gaming industries. Anouk is a New York licensed attorney and has worked for law firms DLA Piper and Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. She has also held Associate General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Director positions with leading publicly traded and private companies including Take-Two Software Interactive Inc. and AFS Intercultural Programs Inc. She has worked across multiple continents and provides legal and risk management strategy, vision and direction. Anouk holds a Master’s Degree (MA) from La Sorbonne law school (Paris), a Bachelor’s degree (LLB) from King’s College of London Law School, as well as an Executive Diploma from INSEAD Business School and a degree from Cornell law school. Anouk is a Swiss national.
Nguyen Le has 14 years' experience in Software Development. He is an experienced Agile coach, with a strong track record in in the outsourcing/offshoring industry. Nguyen is a qualified engineer with a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) focused in IT from RMIT University. Nguyen has honed his skills in a number of European, American and Japanese firms working in Vietnam. He is also a founder of Agile Developer community at Da Nang, which helps developers improve their knowledge.
With up to 30 year experience in IT, Yurii is leading the Presales team of Verysellgroup to bring comprehensive and optimized consultancy for our customers to get business outcome. He can work well with business process & digital transformation professional with expertise in Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insurance & Financial Services.
His lastest company Wallet Factory was a big name in the financial services. He was responsible for Technical & Delivery ownership of the line of products such as Digital Wallet, Reward & Loyalty Management, and Card Management creating financial ecosystems to fight financial inclusion inequality in emerging markets in MENA and LATAM.
Yurii has both academic and practical approach thanks to his acquisition of Certifications from Big Names in Tech: Microsoft Certified System Engineer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified Scrum Master as well as a Microsoft Certified trainer and Cisco Certified Network Associate.
Fernando is a self-taught fullstack blockchain engineer with a background in environmental science. He co-founded the Carribbean Blockchain Network which grew into what is now Kolektivo. As such he has over 3 years of experience in the blockchain industry working in multiple areas including decentralized autonomous organization, Non-fungible tokens, blockchain data and more recently cryptocurrency wallets. He believes that the blockchain industry is laying the groundwork for everlasting innovative social, political and economic transformative outcomes. He is very passionate about the idea of applying blockchain technology to collective forms of economic organizing.
Luan bring to SmartDev over 14 years of experience in accounting and finance in many different industries, including banking, manufacturing, trading and international education services. During her career, Luan has held many critical positions in multinational companies, and she also contributed many innovative ideas to businesses through both growth and recovery phases. She has a deep understanding of the challenges of long-term financial planning and sustainability, business development and annual/multi-year budgeting. She graduated from Hue Economics University, majoring in business finance and accounting.
