About Us

Sam Hayes

President & Co-Founder

Sam co-founded TangoTrade to solve the trade issues he’s seen at small enterprises he’s served in both the technology and finance functions. Most recently, he served as EVP of Assembled Brands which provides capital and services to emerging global luxury brands. Sam previously served as Senior Advisor to the predecessor of Payoneer Escrow (Armor Payments). Sam was founding Senior Vice President at NASDAQ Private Market and founding COO and EVP, Marketplace of its predecessor SharesPost. Sam previously led corporate development for the Java software platform at Sun Microsystems and business development for two venture backed (Kleiner Perkins, Amazon) start-ups that are now part of market leaders Wine.com and Akamai. Sam received an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and an AB from Occidental College.

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Diego Sabaris

CTO & Co-Founder

With over 20 years of software engineering experience, Diego brings a deep wealth of technical expertise to TangoTrade.  Most recently, Diego worked at Oracle as an integral part of the Oracle Cloud initiative, building infrastructure as a service.  Prior to Oracle, Diego was a member of the initial team that launched Fuego Technologies (acquired by BEA Systems) as one of the lead developers for the industry-leading Business Process Manager product. Other professional experience includes software engineering roles in projects at Citigroup and JPMorgan. Diego holds a Master of Information Systems in Software Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina and received an MBA at IAE Business School, Universidad Austral (Argentina).

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Tim French

General Counsel

Tim leads legal for the TangoTrade team and brings proven experience working with innovative technology, security and financial venture-backed firms. He previously served as Director of Legal Affairs for Coupons.com (NYSE: QUOT) including leading the IPO working group and securing lines of credit. Tim served other leading Silicon Valley firms as an Associate in Latham & Watkins’ top-ranked capital markets practice and at Davis Polk. Earning both BA and JD degrees from University of California at Berkeley, Tim graduated first in his law school class

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Jay Hansen

Former COO & VP eBay Americas

Jay Hanson is a startup advisor and a board member for a number of philanthropic organizations. Most recently, Jay was COO and VP of eBay Americas. Prior to this role, Jay was vice president of merchandising, leading the electronics, motor vehicles, vehicles parts and accessories, business and industrial, and gift cards verticals for eBay North America. Previously, Jay served on the company’s European leadership team as vice president of European Expansion and Cross-Border Trade. Since joining eBay in 2002, he has held a number of roles in both North America and Europe across product management and development, managed marketplaces and technology. Jay also serves on the board of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.

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Greg Kidd

Co-Founder & CEO, GlobalID

Formerly Chief Risk Officer at Ripple Labs, a leading blockchain platform. Adviser/Investor for numerous startups including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Previously founded Dispatch Management Services Corp (NASDAQ). Also worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Education includes an MPA, Harvard Kennedy School, an MBA, Yale School of Management and an A.B., Brown University.

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Guy Rey-Herme

CEO & President, XVELA

One of the industry’s foremost SaaS supply chain experts, Guy Rey-Herme has more than 17 years of experience growing emerging supply chain software businesses into successful and thriving companies. As President of XVELA, he successfully balances an entrepreneurial mindset with the framework needed to guide broad, systemic and transformational changes. Guy previously served as co-founder and COO of GT Nexus, now Infor, one of the most successful many-to-many SaaS platforms in the supply chain space. He has also held executive positions at some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Seabury Trade Finance Exchange, International Trade Bank at Bank of America, and Citigroup.

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Jingming Li

Former Founding President AliPay US

Mr. Li has built and grown global payment businesses at important market leaders including serving as the founding President of Alipay US, the Alibaba payment platform. He also served as Acting President of Ant Financial International. Mr. Li oversaw annual transactions of over a trillion China RMB with 100+ financial institutions. Other roles include VP of Payment Platforms at eBay where he focused on next generation payment functionality. Mr. Li’s engineering leadership includes roles at HSBC, Sun Microsystems and Netscape. He holds engineering degrees from Carlton and Beihang Universities.

 

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Sean Linehan

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Scott Reynolds

Co-founder and Advisor

With extensive payments industry experience, Scott is an accomplished entrepreneur and intrapreneur, leading the development and launch of innovative solutions for startups and within Fortune 500 companies. Scott’s inspiration for TangoTrade was borne out of his experience tackling a wide range of B2B payment challenges over his career. Scott was General Manager, B2B Services at Payoneer, a leading global cross-border payments company. Scott came to Payoneer via the acquisition of Armor Payments, a B2B payments company where Scott was CEO and co-founder. Prior to founding Armor Payments, Scott was Director of Product Management at PayPal, leading a team responsible for products ranging from online invoicing to digital goods, accounting for over $2B in payment volume. Scott also held a management role at MasterCard, overseeing the product team that developed and launched the inControl product suite.

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Alex Antebi

Partner, ObiCapital

Alex previously worked at JPMorgan where he structured and negotiated Corporate Finance and Capital Markets transactions for clients, such as an IPO for a Chilean electricity distributor, a $5bn debt exchange for Mexico, and a private equity placement for a Latin American insurance company. A dual US/Mexican citizen, Alex has worked as a principal of several private equity funds including his own fund ObiCapital. Prior funds where he served in a senior executive position include Gracie Capital, Connective Capital Management, Peakview Capital and Carmot Capital. He is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (MBA) and Brown University (B.A., Rohn Truell Award).

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