Our Team

Carel van Wyk

Carel co-founded Luno and was an early engineer at Snapscan. He has been building digital payments systems for the past 8 years.

Ben Blaine

Ben is a serial founder and community builder who has spent the last decade turning bold ideas into real-world products. At Neurabuild, he partnered with researchers to create cutting-edge hardware and software from satellite observation to detecting koalas. He previously helped grow SnapScan from zero merchants and built developer communities for OfferZen and Investec. Ben has a knack for spotting product-market fit and rallying talent to make it happen.

Carl Kritzinger

Carl is a master digital product developer and has worked in banking, payments and cyber security. He has co-founded some companies, exited a couple and helped several others to market.

Jacques Marais

A full-stack developer that has been dodging javascript. I've been up and down the stack with a screwdriver in my back pocket. From swapping CPUs in rack servers, upgrading network card firmware, boot-strapping air-gapped clusters to writing and debugging distributed services, parsing protocols, large NoSQL schema migrations, language design for an in house query language, and designing data processing pipelines. I've even done some front-end work with a small back-end UI in Elm.

Brent Petersen

Third-generation practising attorney & Notary Public with 10 years PQE. Core areas of practice: Crypto Asset advisory and compliance, corporate law, commercial law, contract law, company establishment, corporate structuring, and transactional work for startups & SMEs.