Uphold CEO and leadership

Simon Mcloughlin is a COO at UPHOLD INC and is based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Byte Federal, Inc. manufactures Financial Technology oriented kiosks running software completely engineered by us, designed specifically for the unique American regulatory requirements. The Byte Federal kiosk is Made in the USA, operated solely by Byte Federal and not available for purchase. In a nutshell, Byte Federal is a manufacturer, Software & Hardware Engineering firm & Compliance as a Service company.

A highly effective Leader / Operator of early to mid-stage international B2B and B2C technology companies specialising in cross-functional team building, fund-raising, international sales & marketing, P&L management, product development and growth. Proven capability of driving adoption of products addressing new niches and markets.

Stakeholder Management - Led the turnaround of established businesses ahead of exits to market leaders in the European Travel and Business Intelligence sectors.

Strategic Planning / Analysis - Led the University spin out of a unique SaaS Risk Management Platform; established technical team and roadmap; negotiated IP licensing; successfully engaged with FTSE100 and F500 businesses ahead of beta partnership roll out; engaged key external strategic partners; secured seed investment and positioned the company for further investment and commercial launch.

International Business Development - Founded and scaled a networking hardware business in the US achieving 3rd year revenues of $24m. Secured the distribution of OTT gaming service on over 100m smart TV’s worldwide in partnership with leading consumer electronics manufacturers.

Transformational Change - Reinvigorated and re-structured an existing SME European-based Business Intelligence outfit, moving from physical delivery to SaaS model attaining 80% market share.

Jo Svendblad are a Chief People Officer at UPHOLD INC.

Oonagh Van Den Berg is a Chief Platform Officer at UPHOLD INC.

Robin is responsible for building BillFloat’s customer and partnership base, as well as expanding relationships with leading service providers and bill payment companies. Robin has considerable experience in the payments industry, specifically in online bill payment. Robin previously led business development at Billeo, a venture-backed startup that provides bill payment and e-commerce services to Visa, Discover, American Express and six of the top 10 largest U.S. card issuers. Prior to Billeo, he served as director of product development for Visa USA, managing the Visa Bill Payment Initiative. His background also includes marketing and advertising experience as an account supervisor with McCann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson, working on worldwide brands such as Nestle, Lysol and Wells Fargo. Robin earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Experienced engineer currently serving as a joint CTO at Uphold. Execution-focused, obsessed with detail and insatiable learner. A software engineer by day, a security engineer by night and a network engineer on weekends. Open source enthusiast, restless maker and optimist. Interested in problem-solving, coding and new technologies. Working on automating most aspects of life. Author of the Yubikey Handbook. --I am an experienced engineer serving as a joint CTO at Uphold, a global consumer-focused trading platform founded in 2014 that provides cost-effective 'Anything to Anything' trading functionality with offices in multiple continents of the world.During my tenure at Uphold, I have become deeply involved in the fintech industry, particularly within the blockchain ecosystem. Together with an impressively talented team, I have contributed to the design, implementation, maintenance and coordination of complex financial systems with a focus on security, performance and scalability.As an open source enthusiast, I have contributed with several projects and libraries to the community. You can find some of those projects under the handle @ruimarinho on github and npm. I still actively maintain most of them and I am a coder at heart. My work in the home automation open source firmware development has been featured on maker communities like CNXSoft [1].I am also a restless maker with a passion for electronics. My most recent projects are focused on home automation. Whenever I have the time, I blog about some of the technical challenges I face.I am a proud father and a traveler.[1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/08/04/espurna-esp8266-automation-firmware-gets-support-for-bme680-sensors-precise-indoor-air-quality-measurements/

Tiago is a software generalist whose main interest lies on distributed systems, service-oriented application development, scalability problems, continuous delivery, and backend implementations, while following best engineering practices. Currently at Uphold, a cloud-based financial service whereby users can transfer deposits of bitcoin or wire transfers into reserve-backed currencies and commodities allowing anyone with a device to send, receive, and exchange money and commodities for free. He is one of the founders of Seegno, a technology and design development team, capable of taking up on-line, off-line and mobile application projects at any stage, from concept and design to hard-cor...