We are Sakundi

The team is made up of international professionals who are experts in the areas of cybersecurity, systems, the blockchain and fintech ecosystem, the financial industry, among others.

The foundations of Sakundi’s professionals are focused on conducting scientific research and using that knowledge to the development of reliable products and services that are beneficial to the blockchain ecosystem and its influence on society.

Team Leaders

Andrés Gómez
CEO and co-founder

Dr. Gómez is a computer scientist with experience in the research areas of information security, machine learning, computing infrastructure setup, and monitoring. He has finished his Ph.D. at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and CERN. His thesis is used as a starting point for the company’s products and he is the owner of the intellectual properties of such a thesis. His responsibilities will be related to the technical and scientific leadership of the organization. Dr. Gomez will lead the research activities and will also be responsible for the design and development of the company products. He will also participate in fundraising activities.

Loui Al Sardy
COO and co-founder

Loui Al Sardy has completed the Master of Software Engineering for Industrial Applications (M.Eng.). He received his B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 2011. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Chair of Software Engineering at Erlangen-Nuremberg University. Loui Al Sardy is the head of the Jordanian engineers’ liaison committee in Germany. In addition, he has worked over the past seven years as a test engineer at a software development company, as a researcher on the topic “Intelligent Evolutionary Constraint-based Testing Approaches for Software Vulnerabilities Discovery”, and as a teaching assistant in the field of Software Engineering\Cyber Security at Erlangen-Nuremberg University.

Francis Gómez
CTO and co-founder

Francis is a computer scientist from the Universidad Nacional of Colombia and a specialist in Project Management from the UNITEC University. His work experience, acquired in 12 years as part of Grupo Bancolombia, allows him to work in administrative tasks, providing extensive experience in infrastructure management and supplier management, as well as technical issues, leading pioneering AWS cloud migration processes, with experience in infrastructure as code automation, especially through pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Daniel Navarro
CSO and co-founder

Daniel is a business strategy professional with more than 30 years of experience designing, executing, and managing digitization projects for financial services and digital omnichannel for the social, financial, and technological inclusion of the population. He has great skills in partnership-building processes, digital ecosystem development, and business process design related to digital banks, DeFis, and fintech.

Supporter Team

Flor Suárez
VP of growth marketing

Administrative engineering and expert in digital finance.

David Lerma
VP of strategic
alliances

Financial manager and blockchain expert.

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Susan Tachack
VP of CX and Customer Success

Industrial engineering and PMO specialist.

Iván Aguado
CFO

Industrial engineering and Master in Internet Business.

Mentors

Xavier Fernández
Co-founder & Tech Lead

Industrial engineering and Master in Internet Business

Domagoj Rozic
Co-founder & CEO

Industrial engineering and PMO specialist

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