Dan meet Charles, Charles meet Dan (Koho Story)
⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux
I was introduced to (the CEO of Koho) Daniel Eberhard by my friend Anthony Tsui.
(Anthony and I have been friends for a number of years, and had met through the tech conferences and tech meetups in Vancouver.)
Anthony sent Daniel this message (over LinkedIn):
Hi Daniel
,
Please meet Charles, I understand that Koho may be looking for a CTO and I think you guys should talk.
Charles has lots of startup tech experience - as a lead engineer at Hootsuite in its early days, and engineering manager at Trulioo when it got started.
He was a Principal Software Engineer at EA applying some hard core machine learning and data science to marketing up until a few months ago.
He's been doing customer discovery and research on his own startup idea for the past few months.
Though he didn't get the validation he needed so he's looking to join another company.
Cheers
, Anthony
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Charles Iliya Krempeaux is the founding chief technology officer (CTO) of Koho Financial — a Canadian fintech company that provides banking services. From 2015 to 2018 he worked on Koho. He figured out how to build a bank — and built one from scratch. This is the story from his point-of-view.