Team
People Behind SweetSpots
R. Ryan Ross
CEO & Founder
Ryan Ross is accomplished in emerging technologies, early-stage companies. Ryan's career at Visa Inc covered both the US and International markets where he deployed fintech and innovation technologies for the credit card industry focused on retail and online partners to help expand credit card acceptance and usage. After Visa, Ryan joined Pay-By-Touch and established the first commercial biometric offering at Citibank Singapore.
Nhan Nguyen, PhD
Founding Partner | Chief Technical Advisor
Nhan Nguyen, Doctor of Computer Sciences from Universités de Sciences, Paris, has over 20 years of experience in information technology, transaction processing and diverse computer science technologies. From Fortune 500s to start-ups, he has formulated technical strategies and led the implementation, deployment and operations of groundbreaking products and services for brick-and-mortar, online and mobile businesses.
Daniel Kwong
Chief Operating Officer
Daniel Kwong is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of management experience taking senior management positions at Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks, and Verizon. Daniel has extensive multi-functional management experience including managing a 500-staff global organization and $60M operation budget as a vice president at Juniper Networks. Recently Daniel brought an early stage technology media startup to IPO as a C-Level executive of the company.
Board of Directors
Alain Bandle
BOARD MEMBER AND ADVISOR
Alain holds a master’s degree in business from the University of St. Gallen (lic. oec. hsg). the trilingual, internationally experienced manager worked most recently in Zurich as CEO of Global Ad Placement agency. responsible for Satmap’s expansion of operations in continental Europe. served as CEO of the Versatel telecommunications group in Dusseldorf, which he sold to the american private equity company kkr following a successful re-positioning and turnaround in 2011. Vice-President and General Manager of Dell based in Geneva, he oversaw Europe-wide business relations in the public sector, which constitutes Dell’s largest and most successful business segment with sales volumes of over Eur 2.5 billion and 700 employees. before that, he headed the central Europe (Dach) division at Dell.
Steve Zelinger
FOUNDING PARTNER | BOARD MEMBER AND LEGAL ADVISOR
Steve served as general counsel and adviser to payments and financial services companies such as Visa International, Pay By Touch, Blingnation, and start-ups in Silicon Valley and abroad. He also has served as a federal prosecutor, white collar criminal defense attorney, corporate counsel, law firm partner, and counselor in international public finance in the us and abroad. Steve graduated from Harvard, magna cum laude, and Georgetown Law School and Graduate School of Foreign Service with highest honors.
Ryan Ross
CEO & Founder
R. Ryan Ross has accomplishments in emerging technologies, early stage sales and business development that spans over 20 years. Ross established the first commercial biometric offering at Citibank, McDonald’s and Blockbuster, developing credit card acceptance for new and emerging retail and online industries with revenues now reaching over one billion dollars
