Co-Founder & PresidentIndustry FinTech Inc
Austin Business Journal Leadership Trust
Member Since February 2020
About
Sandy is the Co-Founder and President of Industry FinTech Inc which empows funds, deals, private equity, special purpose vehicles, start-ups and family offices with a modern, fully-managed, intelligent back-office platform for greater performance, transparency and trust.Sandy was CTO at VerifyMe, Inc (VRME:NASDAQ) for 8 years. VerifyMe is a pioneer in patented physical, cyber and biometric technology solutions that prevent identity theft, counterfeiting and fraud.Sandy was formerly the CIO at VEEDIMS, LLC. VEEDIMS is an Internet of Things technology company that has revolutionized the way power and data is distributed and data collected in the aerospace and marine markets.Prior to that Sandy was the co-founder and CTO of Zaah.com. Zaah is a full service digital media company that creates big brand websites, mobile apps, games, and develops social media content and strategy.As CTO, Sandy directed a team of over 200 personnel and oversaw the company's strategy and development teams. Offices were spread out through NYC, Long Island, NY, Tampa, FL and Chennai, India.Notable clients of Zaah which Sandy successfully oversaw include Maxim Magazine, Disney, Vistaprint, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Kodak, Fuji, 1800flowers TargetPortraits and J.C. Penny. Also Sandy wrote the patents and created the technology behind VerifyMe.A software management veteran with over 22 years of experience, Sandy began his business career at J.P. Morgan & Co. on the bank’s IT team. He spent his first 5 years in IT on the trading floor on Wall Street.While getting his B.S. in telecommunications and computer science from St. Johns University, Sandy co-founded Shop4Cash.com in 1999.In 2001, Sandy then went on and founded eMerchant Services, applying IP technology to the merchant services industry. With a proven record of success, Sandy started consulting for DataTreasury Corporation and Infinity Payment Systems where he oversaw the development of the first-ever IP-based credit card terminal that ran over the Ethernet with encryption.
