Ayodo Foundation's Board 

Brian has a degree in Science from UVic and a diploma in Urban Land Economics from UBC.  He  founded Ayodo Foundation with a mandate to use digital technologies to help alleviate poverty.  Brian is a serial entrepreneur having founded and managed several tech start-up companies especially in the payments arena.  He has served on numerous boards, raised millions of dollars in venture funds, conceived and developed and/or patented new technologies.
Leslie has degrees in Life Sciences and Physiotherapy from Queen’s and McGill Universities.  She has lived and worked as a clinician in Canada, VietNam, Singapore, and Qatar, in varied clinical settings from orphanages to private clinics to tertiary care hospitals.  She now works as the administrator of a busy medical practice in Canada.  She has been a Director and the Treasurer of Ayodo Foundation since 2012.  Leslie is an intelligent and caring person working tirelessly to reduce inequities and make remittances more affordable.

Past Support from  TEAM PLAYERS​ 

​The following individuals contributed in some manner to the development of our open source, non-profit, merchant centric - pre-paid mobile payment and money transfer product. Ayodo's products are unique in being derived from crowd sourced Fintech projects.  The following individuals have supported,  and often continue as personal time and employment conditions permit,  to voluntarily support Ayodo .  Ayodo's management is extremely grateful for their considerable support. Thank-You to all of you for your superior skills,  your exceptional and considerate support and for your many unpaid hours of labor.  Ayodo would not be possible without your kindness and dedication.  It takes a team effort to enhance financial inclusion and change the world.  If  while reading this you decide that you have  technical/ programming  or management skills and wish to join our team, please contact us at [email protected] . Thank you also to those independent corporate entities who consent to allow their employees to contribute some of their expertise, skills and passion on their days off.

Prakash Shetty

Jay Shetty is a senior software engineer with UNIVAR with extensive expertise in the cloud server and data base realms. Jay serves as the Foundation's CTO and is responsible for Ayodo's backend. 

Yun Lu

Yun Lu is an acknowledge expert on Blockchain security .  Yun with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh is responsible for ensuring Ayodo's  open source MQR Digital Identity , with biometric authentication token,  is enabled for ledger technology and interoperability.
Luis Talavera
Luis has a MSc in Computer Science from PUC in Rio de Janeiro with a specialty in Networks and Distributed Systems.  Luis is an expert in Android coding,  having started working for Yodo in 2012  to develop YodoPay  under Renato Marroquin our former CTO.  Luis now lives and works in Lima  as a developer for Globrant ( formerly Belatrix ) and Renato now works for Oracle Labs. Thank you Luis and Renato our products are being used daily by tens of millions of South Americans who previously were unbanked.
Shawn Doyle
​Shawn  has a Law degree from Harvard University and practiced Corporate law with  Cleary Gottlieb in New York for several years prior to relocating to Santiago, Chile where he served as Inside Counsel for a multi billion dollar global Mining Company.  Shawn is currently a partner at McCarthy Tétrault  while continuing to provide  pro-bono legal counsel to  both Yodo  Incorporated and  Ayodo Foundation.
Sina Jahabin
Sina  has a PhD in machine vision from the University of Texas.  Sina has developed state of the art 3D machine vision systems for Tencor used for quality control in chip production. Sina advised on suitable face verification algorithms.  Sina currently works as Senior Algorithm Officer for Apple.
Jose Ayerdis
Jose is a Fulbright scholar and has a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Buffalo specializing in Machine Learning. Jose developed the POS application Pozool now licensed to Ayodo for free distribution as MojaPOS.   Jose currently works for PayPal.
Jon Jacox
Jon Jacox has a BEng from UVIC in computer engineering.  Jon  primarily  helped at the early product development stage by advising the team on hardware and coding issues. Jon currently works as a software engineer  for Novatel Inc.
Sonya Majidian
Sonya is a graduate from the University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.  Sonya's work experience includes time spent supporting  a NGO in Iran. She served as an Executive  Assistant for Ayodo Foundation working in operations and public relations for the Middle East.  Sonya currently works in the Canadian Banking industry.