Stephen McNamara is a seasoned entrepreneur and CTO with a wealth of experience in designing, implementing, and deploying scalable software systems in the payments and crypto industries. With almost 30 years of meaningful executive experience, Stephen is a technical leader with a commercial mindset, who delivers on the business vision. He has a strong track record of mentoring, team leadership, and decision-making, making him an asset in startups or large corporations. Stephen has held different high-level positions, including COO at OMG Network, CTO at Rakuten, EVP Strategy at SYNQA, and Head of Blockchain R&D Strategy at Huawei Technologies.

Stephen's educational background includes studying HND, Software Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is equally comfortable discussing either technical or strategic matters and has proven his leadership in culture change and driving strategic initiatives. He possesses strong communication and presentation skills, which makes him an effective leader, especially on strategic and high-level matters.