Shur Gonzalez
Strategic transformation leader
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Strategic transformation leader with extensive international management and consulting experience at a Fortune 500 global manufacturing company, an international energy technical service provider, and one of the largest energy services providers in the world. Excels at delivering strategic direction including defining, developing, and implementing robust structures, processes and tools that drive operational quality management and elevate productivity. Shur has been based in 7 countries, worked in over 15 countries, and managed regional international departments across US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific to steer complex projects, post-merger integrations and advised senior leadership with insights and recommendations to improve operations and cut costs. He has developed and managed a global framework to raise supplier performance and improve the lifecycle management of critical assets valued at US$1.5B spread across 18+ operational sites. A well-rounded Engineer with a strong business and investment background. Shur is a partner and board member of a Dubai based investment holding company with a wide range of interests including Asset Management Services, IoT products, Hospitality, and Fintech. Shur holds a diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and is certified in Six Sigma Green Belt.
ANDRUS NORM
Co-founder and CTO
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Currently the co-founder and CTO of Fueleby.net a full service technology and marketing firm and co-founder and former CTO of OBITX, a fintech company publicly trading OBTX. Andrus’ driving the vision and growth of technical operations and enterprise systems. He oversees and directs technical operations, and is also responsible for developer relations and partnerships, an elemental component to cultivating the connection with our developer community. His background includes extensive experience across a variety of disciplines including the planning and development of enterprise infrastructure and systems, team building, massive scale multi-layered data mining, planning and deployments of secure high availability/redundant payment infrastructure, backend service architecture and development, and new technologies testing and deployment. Creator of the advertising network of MegaUpload, media processing cloud services for MegaUpload, Megavideo and Megapix. Nomms duties were to test and develop new technologies and solutions and integrate them into systems while managing a daily user base of 50+million unique ip’s and monitor over 6,500 servers. Co-patent holder on Haultail on-demand logistics gig delivery system. It is Nomms mission to empower developers to solve problems and scale their impact.
Alex Mardikian
Chief Marketing and Information Officer
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Over 30 years in multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, mapping, environmental, and planning services holding federal and state licenses as a Grade II water treatment operator and specialist for distribution and backflow. Serving a diverse client base from municipal, state, and federal agencies; energy, industrial, and commercial companies; and private developers. Formerly the U.S. Western Regional manager for Schlumberger Ltd.
Currently the co-founder and CEO of Fueledby.net, a full service technology and marketing firm and co-founder and former CEO of OBITX, a fintech company publicly trading OBTX. Also directing as the CEO and Designer of the global brands Von Dutch Kustom. Was a partner and owner of 12 licenses for the brands and subcategories of Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier and rock group The WHO (an exclusive licensing of Quadrophenia assigned by Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey). A branding partner to CARO with exclusivity to the GRAMMY label (appointed by The Recording Academy™). And Chief Brand Strategist for Kim Dotcom and all related entities MegaUpload, MegaMovie, MegaClik, MegaBox, Baboom and N1. He offers proven strength in guerrilla marketing and enterprise software development concentric to consumer behavioral incentives and activations, data retention, aggregation and gamification. With data sciences in geo-temporal and conversion of social communities, copywriting and influencing. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Hydraulics and Fluid PowerTechnology from the University of California Riverside.
Federico Yañez
IT systems and consulting
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Career in IT systems and consulting developed at everis and Accenture, responsible for the design, negotiation and implementation of complex IT solutions for major clients with regional and global operations. Formerly head of FMCG sub-sector in the UK as well as the Sustainability practise. Senior Project Manager with 14 years’ experience leading technology change programmes for retail and FMCG companies, and Sustainability innovation programmes across multiple clients. In-depth end-to-end programme delivery experience in the design, build, test, pilot, and implementation phases. Skilled in establishing programme governance, business process re-engineering, change management and training, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
Federico holds a diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and a master’s degree in Project Management.
Gulmira Mardikian
Product Innovator & Engineer
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Is a Product Innovator and an Engineer with an extensive background in leadership in Research and Development (R&D). She has over 16 years of experience in Process Engineering, Product Development, Purchasing and Project Management in a Fortune 500 Global Consumer Goods company. Over the years, she has developed and created many Engineering designs in producing Household and Personal Care products. She holds publications for patents in designing Manufacturing Processes for Laundry products. Gulmira’s professional life is versatile and diverse. First and most she is an Engineer and a Scientist. She has also spent extensive time in Purchasing, where she acquired the skill to negotiate and manage companies spending effectively. Gulmira holds a diploma in Chemical Engineering, Master’s in Engineering and certified in Six Sigma Black Belt.
Gulmira provides technical support and directs the technical aspect of the company, including Process Engineering and Manufacturing. Direct and manage all EPA, AQMD and USDA regulatory documentation for existing and new operations. Lead and place new processes in Engineering that pertains to EPA, AQMD and USDA regulations. Lead processes that are new to the company. Research, lead and communicate new EPA, and USDA regulations.
Ralph Herro
Founder and CEO
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Founder and CEO of iMerchant Direct Inc, Ralph brings more than a decade of payment and financial services experience with about 40K+ current clients and processing +4B annually. His expertise is in operations, expanding fintech solutions both domestically and internationally, merchant relationship development and product development and deployment. With less than a 4% attrition rate, which is a number simply unattainable by iMerchant's competitors, he has one of the strongest merchant communities in the business. With worldwide operations and an extensive customer list in a variety of industries, iMD Lending With a quick application process, high approval rates and fast release of funds this is a viable alternative to traditional small business loans in addition to many other useful products that can be added to an account by a click of a mouse, Merchants can bundle and save bills they already have and through additional products offered they can raise their volume by up to 70%.
Gulaiym Agbal
Support and community
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Currently manages brand support and community sciences at Fueledby.net, a full-service technology. Gulaiym identifies, segments and integrates innovative data science and analytics in order to transform businesses' social influence inorder to change their DNA to data driven decision making - end user conversion. Thereby transforming into efficient and lean enterprises that outperforms their competition. Services include financial analytics, public sector analytics, social media analytics, iOT analytics, enterprise analytics, customer analytics. Overseeing and maintaining over 15K+ mrf and waystations data, communication and driver dissipation information. She graduated from Kyrgyz National University of Jusup Balasagyn with a degree in Information Technology.
ALEXEY NOVINSKIY
Cdesign director
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Currently a design director at Fueleby.net, a full-service technology and marketing firm. Has extensive experience in periodicals (one of the founders of the magazine Green Energy - a edition on all types and technologies of renewable energy, chief-designer of the magazine SALON - a edition on design, decor and architecture, art director of Tele-Week and Telescope - entertainment edition, art-director of the magazine Money - financial and analytical edition, Ukraine Young - a daily political and economic republican edition), printing companies (designer and specialist on prepress in the companies Art-Graphics, Futari-Print) and advertising agencies (TSK-agency, Noblet Media, Art Wings). He has collaborated on various projects with McDonalds, Bosch-Siemens, Carlsberg, Electrolux, Zanussi, Aeg, Interpipe, Allianz, Bravo-Airline and many others. Participated in the preparation of the International Energy Forum Wind & Hydrogen, Green Energy Transition, GlobalWind, Green City Expo and other activities of companies related to renewable energy; such as - Scientific and Technical Center Biomass, Ukrainian Wind Energy Association, VindKraft, Wind Park of Ukraine and others. He graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine with a degree in industrial marketing.