PureStake

CEO

Derek is a serial as-a-service technology entrepreneur who has spent the past 20 years building successful software and cloud companies.

Prior to PureStake, Derek was the co-founder and CTO of Fuze, where he led the product and engineering teams in the creation of a global Unified Communications-as-a-Service cloud platform with points of presence all around the world, a low latency global network, and a suite of end user web, desktop, and mobile communications applications.

During his time at Fuze, the company grew to 700 employees and a $150M run rate.

COO

Stefan is a serial technology entrepreneur with 25 years’ experience in technical operations leadership roles. He was most recently head of North America technical operations at Samsung Pay, responsible for the infrastructure, security, and customer support for the Samsung Pay service. Stefan joined Samsung through the acquisition of LoopPay where he was a founding member of the executive team, as the company’s COO.

Prior to Samsung, Stefan was the CEO of Collego, the creator of an XML-based NoSQL database, and later CEO of Permessa, an enterprise software company providing large-scale messaging management and analytics applications.

VP of Engineering

Tim brings 20 years of engineering experience as a leader of application development and DevOps teams that are focused on building and supporting as-a-service offerings.

Prior to PureStake, Tim was the VP of Engineering at Computer Services Inc., building a compliance API-as-a-Service and supporting customers such as Google, eBay, Stripe, Facebook, Priceline, Uber, BB&T, Sungard, Huntington, and Cybersource (Visa).