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 D. Bandle is a trilingual (English, French & German) Swiss Non - Executive Director, Senior Advisor, and Executive Coach/Mentor with extensive global commercial experience and a proven ability to re-position companies for successful turnarounds and to create and implement business strategies that drive growth. Alain held leading positions at a number of companies including Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Swissair, Veba AG (now Eon), and Dell.
During his career, Alain also held cumulated over 20 years in various non-executive director roles in Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, the Netherlands and the USA.( e.g.Chairman of the Supervisory Board of E-Plus, member of the supervisory board at Bouygues Telecom SA, Paris and at Austrian Airlines in Vienna); Over 10 years’ experience as CEO under private equity, he sold 4 companies to private equity. He is a Partner of The Great Idea Group. GIG is a private venture capital and principal investment firm based in Malta, and with offices in Zug, Switzerland.
Alain holds an MBA from the University St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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
