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Nghia (Nevill) Ng.

CEO, Managing Director

Nghia has over 15 years of management experience in the software industry. He joined PowerGate Software after managing a large development team of over 300 engineers for UK and US markets for 6 years. Before that he also founded 2 other software companies which were acquired by large corporations.
Throughout his career, his roles have encompassed programming, software architecture design, project management, training, sales, marketing, and operational management where he has held a number of senior roles.
Nghia is a PMP project & program manager, Agile/Scrum master and has a strong background in customer service excellence.

Dustin Hemesath

Partnership Director

Dustin Hemesath is an experienced leader in B2B sales, startups, and growth strategies, boasting 18 years of executive-level expertise in consulting and leadership. He excels at the intersection of technology, services, and strategy, with a decade dedicated to launching and scaling startups across various industries, including sports, healthcare, and mobile technologies. Dustin is passionate about building processes from the ground up, aligning product-market fit, and developing scalable growth strategies. Notably, in 2016, he collaborated with PowerGate Software to create a contactless online and mobile ordering system for Food and Beverage Services. Following this successful partnership, he took on the role of Partnership Director at PowerGate. His core strengths encompass business and sales planning, sales training and execution, product roadmap development and management, P&L management and budgeting, as well as capital raising and financial planning.

Mark R. Smith

Partnership Development Director, UK & Europe

Mark has spent 20 years designing, managing and operating international projects in the media industry, and more recently architecting multi-million dollar partnerships with major cloud vendors, developing national accounts and creating strategic value propositions for companies. He has worked for and in partnership with some of the biggest technology companies including Ericsson, Microsoft and AWS. From this comes experience in selling and delivering complex, high profile, multi-party projects.
A technologist at heart, with a degree in Electronic Engineering and Digital Communications from one of the UK’s leading universities, Mark believes we need to shift our current technology led world to one where designing businesses and solutions for the best consumer experiences comes is the key to success.
Mark’s work at Powergate is complemented by strategy value proposition and partnership advisory work with companies in the media space.

Ky Vinh Tran, MBA

Partnership Development Director, Americas

Ky Vinh Tr. was the founder and CEO of D-Square Solutions, a Montreal, Canada based consulting and professional services which was sold in 2018. Ky Vinh holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA, Université de Sherbrooke, 2011), a postgraduate degree in Finance and Treasury (McGill University, 2002) and a Bachelor of Science degree (McGill University, 1996). He is fluent in French, English and Vietnamese.
A seasoned leader with over twenty (20) years of experience, in Project Delivery – Custom Software and App developments, in Program Management of Enterprise ERP solutions, in Strategy, Business Architecture and Business Analysis. He has worked with organizations from many different industries: Banking & Insurance, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Transportation & Logistics, Software development, Telecom, Retails and the Public sector, to help them focus on bringing value and amazing solutions to their customers and to their employees.

As the Partnership Development Director, Americas (USA, CANADA, Mexico) for PowerGate Software JSC., Ky Vinh will bring the real value propositions to our partners and customers to deliver their Software and App development projects.

Cuong Ng.

Technical Director

Cuong has over 12 years of experience in software development with a proven track record of developing and deploying large systems. For the past 6 years at PowerGate Software, he has been designing systems and leading development for clients in United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. He’s an expert at helping teams overcome difficult technical issues, implementing cutting edge technologies, and bringing teams to higher levels of technical expertise.
Before joining PowerGate, he built large-scale education platforms for the Ministry of Education, FPT Corporation and VTC Online, such as Vi-Olympic platform with 5 million users and IOE with 10 million members.
Cuong holds a Computer Science degree of Software Engineering and Technology.

Thu Ng.

HR Manager

Thu is a highly experienced HR Manager with 10 years of experience in the area. She is an accomplished HR manager, especially in streamlining the talent acquisition process together with building healthy and professional corporate environment strategies. Being accustomed to working for companies in different business fields as well as international cultures with colleagues from all over the world, she has gained extensive experience and flexibility in dealing with HR situations and scenarios.

With MSc. Degree in Information Technology, Ms.Thu has strong knowledge and expertise in developing smart strategies and solutions in IT human resources management to optimize stakeholders’ benefits.