Before launching Paymentwall, Honor was the CEO of OutCubator, a virtual incubator where he invested in and co-founded innovative startups in Silicon Valley such as Adperk.com (pioneer in incentivized video advertising), MiNeeds (services marketplace), Rofo.com (office space search engine) as well as Zurna.com (the #2 Turkish social network). While working on Zurna, he and his team pioneered virtual currency payments by integrating with various mobile and off-line payment methods to monetize the userbase in Turkey and abroad. Honor started his professional career as a Program Manager at Expedia.com where he launched the world’s largest cruise agency by unifying 12 cruiseline bookings on a single platform.
Honor graduated with a B.S in Technology Management (an individually designed degree combining HCI/Usability, Finance/Econ, and Sociology of Technology) from Stanford University.
Languages spoken: English Turkish French Spanish some Russian some Portuguese some Italian
Vladimir “Vova” leads the technical and product teams at Paymentwall. Before launching Paymentwall, Vladimir was Director of Engineering of OutCubator, a virtual incubator that launched innovative startups such as Adperk.com (incentivized video advertising platform), MiNeeds (services marketplace), Rofo.com (office space search engine) as well as Zurna.com (the #2 Turkish social network). Prior to that he worked at Incom building ERP solutions.
Vladimir graduated with a M.S. in Computer Science at NTUU – Kiev Politechnic Institute, the top engineering school in Ukraine.
Languages spoken: English Russian Ukrainian German