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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms. African ICT Achiever Awards – OVERALL WINNER (Annex.13).

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. I live in the city of Santa Monica.