Executive Team
Graeme Speak
CEO / foundeR
Entrepreneur | Technologist | Kitesurfer
Graeme Speak is a veteran entrepreneur and innovator with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing and cybersecurity. He leverages deep technical insights to solve tangible business problems that can be scaled for commercial success.
Prior to establishing VanishingPoint, he founded BankVault.com, a technology innovation company rethinking cybersecurity which he leads from Silicon Valley / San Francisco. The team pioneered intelligent new approaches to web security with their work backed by Turing Laureate Whitfied Diffie (the Father of Internet Encryption).
He holds 14 patents and has directed the development of 30 distinct technologies.
Alfred Tascon
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / Systems architect
Alfred is technology veteran who helped build the foundations for social network Mig33/Migme (Tencent-WeChat competitor). The system scaled to 45 million registered users handing text messaging, voice calls, and handled user billing and social credits. He built Sanford Securities Stock Trading platform (now ComSec), and court reporting system FTR (For-the-Record) which still operates in courtrooms across the USA.
As a senior software engineer and systems architect, he has deep technical proficiency spanning operating systems, database, networking and application software extended to browsers and mobiles.
Michael van Steen
Business development / financial analyst
Michael is a financial executive with client experience in Banking, Asset Management, Insurance, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, and Energy. He has held key roles in developing and implementing complex modeling software, risk management, and pricing systems at very large financial institutions around the world. With a deep background in statistical modeling, complex system development, and credit portfolio management, he has also been involved in all aspects of managing widely deployed software systems. His expertise covers: • Portfolio Modeling and Management, • Credit Underwriting, • Data Mining and Advanced Data Analysis, • Single-Obligor Modeling, • Credit Risk Management, • Regulatory Trends Analysis, • Complex System Development, • Risk-based pricing, Stress testing, and Recovery analysis, • Project Management of complex Financial and Statistical systems, • Software and consultative services pricing and selling, • Communicating complex technical concepts and results.
Alfredo Cardenas
VP of Sales engineering
Alfredo is a Client Services and Pre-Sales professional with over 20 years of hands on and leadership experience. He has built multiple client facing technical teams from the ground up. Most recently, he built a high performing technical account management team at H2O.ai which started as four employees in North America and grew to 15+ across 5 continents. Prior to H2O.ai, Alfredo built the support, training, pre-sales, and consulting functions serving Federal and Civilian customers at Authentic8.
Lily Chin
Chief Financial Officer
A member of the CPA and IPA, Lily has more than 30 years of extensive accounting experience through public accounting and financial management roles for a variety of industries spanning IT, property investment, hotels, hospitality, and training. She has been CFO with our team working across several companies since 2007 and continues her passion with an ‘eye for figures’ and management.
Veronique Gautier
Brand marketing
Veronique is a Brand-builder. Her passion is to create powerful brands that lead society forward. From her early years working in Advertising in France at Havas to now having over 20 years of experience as a Brand Strategist based in New York (Bright Sun Consulting, Ogilvy & Mather, Selectny, The Brand Union), she has had the chance to contribute to some of the largest companies in the world across a variety of industries (ExxonMobil, BP, HP, Fujifilm, Hitachi, P&G,,…). In 2015 she founded, The BranDNA Lab, to focus on entrepreneurs with “big ideas” and assists in the development of innovations.
Veronique’s core expertise is creating value through the brand, throughout the company. Her trademarked approach, called ‘Distinctive Natural Assets’, focuses on identifying the unique building blocks of a brand, intrinsically holding value, and leveraging them to create long-term value across the company. Inspired by the ‘apple’ model and the genius of Steve jobs, she uses the singular prism of the brand to transform and elevate the business throughout: R&D, Marketing, Communications, Training, C-Level Coaching, … enabling any company regardless of its size to operate at its peak.
Her strength is to be able to laser dive into each brand’s unique business challenge and find the way to naturally connect with its target and ignite a strong and lasting engagement. She is a sharp strategic thinker and a hands-on business partner who knows how to execute.
Veronique holds a Licence Es-Economics from Paris-Assas, and a Maitrise of Communications & Marketing from the CELSA, and Paris-Sorbonne. She is also an Executive Coach.
Lily Chin
Chief financial officer
A member of the CPA and IPA, Lily has more than 30 years extensive accounting experience through public accounting and financial management roles for a variety of industries spanning IT, property investment, hotels, hospitality and training. She has been with our company since 2007 and continues her passion with an ‘eye for figures’ and management.
