Our Team

Paola Santana

CEO

Lawyer, tech entrepreneur, and procurement expert. Fulbrighter. Drone delivery pioneer.

Valentin Dragan

Tech Lead

Senior Developer and expert in e-commerce marketplaces. Has led the development of high-performing marketplaces.

Oneida Franco

CFO

Finance and corporate compliance expert.  Dedicated to setting accounting controls that bring peace of mind.

Wileska Rosario

Product Lead

Business Development and Data Analysis specialist. Entrepreneurship MBA, passionate about tech.

Amada Reyes

Government Growth Lead

B.A in Political Science, experienced in politics. Passionate about government, and bridging the gap between tech and the public sector to better serve the people.

Gerardo Mateo

Chief of Staff

Computer Science B.Eng. and OAS Scholarship Awardee. Experienced in leading strategic initiatives from development through successful execution.

Anthony Rivas

Vendors Lead

Industrial Engineer and MBA, experienced working in supply chain, passionate about tech and about developing innovative ideas.

Andrea Uribe

Business Development

Lawyer, business development specialist and tech enthusiast. Passionate about promoting innovation and enabling new ways to make people’s lives better.

Luis Maldonado

UX/UI Design

UX/UI Designer experienced in creating groundbreaking user experiences for engaging, pleasing and transformative software solutions.

BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. OUTSTANDINGLY

Our advisors have lead key government agencies, designed groundbreaking products, developed cutting-edge technologies, and helped humans explore outer space. We aim nothing less.

Jim Williams

Government Procurement

Former U.S. GSA’s Acting Administrator under President George W. Bush and GSA’s first Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner. Earlier in his career, Jim was the IRS’s leader for Procurement and Program Management, and the federal government’s computer procurement expert for the US-Japan 1990 Supercomputer Procurement and 1992 Computer Procurement Trade Agreements. He has served the US Federal Government for over 30 years, and has been distinguished with two Presidential Rank Awards.

Marc Shillum

Commerce Platforms & Binary UX

Multi-awarded designer and creative director behind Nike, HBO, Discovery, eBay, Aston Martin, Barnes & Noble and other Fortune 500 companies, connecting the dots between business, brand and product experience. He advises category-defining startups like Canary, Molekule, SoftKinetic and served as founding CXO at Matternet. Currently, he’s the Senior Director of Global Brand and End-To-End Product Experience at eBay, and is the author of ‘Brands as Patterns’, a foundational white paper for coherent brand building in the digital age.

Dr. Yvonne Cagle

Global Ambassador

NASA astronaut, chief scientist for the Level II Program Office of NASA’s Commercial Reuseable Suborbital Research program, and lead astronaut liaison for Silicon Valley programmatic partnerships with Stanford University, Google, and others. Her groundbreaking work includes preserving NASA legacy data while galvanizing its leadership in global mapping, sustainable energies and disaster preparedness, with substantial contributions to the longitudinal study on astronaut health, space telemedicine, and the development of cutting-edge technologies for human advancement. She is a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force where she served as a Senior Flight Surgeon, and is the recipient of the National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, United States Air Force Air Staff Exceptional Physician Commendation and National Technical Association Distinguished Scientist Award, having exceptionally served the US government for over 30 years.

Steve Yankovich

E-commerce Platforms Architecture

Steve has spent 37 years in the technology field, from CPU logic designer to founder, CTO and CEO of an enterprise software startup, to Fortune 500 company executive. Most recently, Steve spent a decade at eBay building mobile for all of eBay’s global businesses and driving product innovation for major components of eBay’s marketplace and customer experience. As part of his tenure at eBay, he also helped spin out Magento as CTO when PayPal and eBay split into separate public companies. He serves on a public board (NASDAQ: RST), a private company, a non-profit, numerous startup and several venture capital firms, and has amassed a portfolio of over 100 patents, with 63 granted.

Will Clarke

Acquisition & Supply Chain

Acquisition & Supply Chain Executive with 25 years of U.S. Navy Active Duty experience, where he served in impactful Defense Department assignments in Supply Chain, Procurement and Logistics in Africa, Asia, and the United States. Since 2015, Will has led stores and facilities sustainment efforts in a Fortune 100 Retail Company, and led the Global Supply Chain Management efforts at a large airline company. He has a BSc in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy, a MSc in Finance and Contracts Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, and certificates from Wharton, University of North Carolina, and Georgetown University. Will brings a gritty, disciplined, and principle-driven approach to complex decision-making at the intersection of commercial efficiency and government acquisition strategy.