Giorgio Talegon
Founder and CEO

Giorgio Talegon is a serial entrepreneur with various innovations to his name from Ad-Tech to Blockchain to Fintech. He has over twenty years of experience developing web based technologies. While at University in Southern California, he built a web based database called Brentstar for both union and non-union actors that showcased their resumes, which also published some casting dailies for actors. He then went on to form his first web development firm; Webest, where he built web sites for small to medium sized companies. After Webest, he founded Hyperbidder, an ad exchange network with proprietary bidding system. In addition, he started an open source Blockchain project called JEXOS to try and make the Digital Advertising more transparent and fair to all parties involved. He is currently also involved in a Fintech venture called PayLuft, a Biometric Payment solution that requires no device or substance to make a payment. Giorgio is a technology pioneer, who strives to improve on the existing or new technologies by developing/providing new solutions or technological breaktroughs. Giorgio is an IT professional with extensive software project management, architecture design, and software engineering experience as well as a savvy marketer and businessman with extensive background in international business, marketing and IT industry. He attended Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA (Marketing), Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA (Business Administration), College of the Sequoia, Visalia (Business Administration) with honors. Aside from coding and working with start-ups, Giorgio enjoys spending time with his dog, playing basketball, skiing, and cycling.

Sam Weyermann
Co-Founder and CTO

Sam Weyermann is an experienced software architect with over 15 years in the field. He has broad industry experience across disciplines including large-scale web services, massive data pipelines, machine learning, and computer security. In his more than 10 years at Google, he led the development of highly reliable web services and made several contributions to improving the security and safety of Google accounts. Prior to that he spent 5 years at the US Department of Defense where he led a group pioneering the development of MapReduce data analysis algorithms to discover novel network intrusions, designed and built full-stack applications on Python Django and MySQL to enable end users to analyze large amounts of data, and performed vulnerability analysis on complex systems. During his studies, Sam was a research assistant in the BYU IDeA Labs under the guidance of a PhD graduate from MIT. There he studied and published in fields including dynamic systems, operations research, and graph theory. At the completion of his studies in 2008, Sam earned an MS in Computer Science.

Evelyn Hofstetter is a Corporate Attorney specializing in Corporate Law, Contracts, M&A, Financing, IPOs, Employment Law, Staff Leasing, Recruitment Services, Banking and Finance. She is a member of Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), and Swiss Bar Association (SAV). She has been an Attorney at Law since 2007, and a junior partner since 2017 with Badertscher Attorneys at Law. She has vast experience in projects with start-ups, and holds various member of the board or director positions in many startups in order to support the young companies in their early stages. Evelyn has been involved in many M&A projects in different sectors while leading a team of up to five lawyers. She was also part of a team guiding and founding a Swiss Bank in Geneva. In addition, she was a lecturer at University of Lucerne. Evelyn also enjoys teaching and supporting law students. She graduated from University of Zurich and University of Lyon (Lic. iur. 2004).