Beacon

Beacon is a customer support center based in Madagascar that specializes in providing customer support services and admin services specifically for the short term rental industry and for the broader hospitality industry.

Founder & CEO

Outpost

Advisor

Responsible for the P&L of four hotels and co-working spaces in Bali and Sri Lanka.

Area General Manager

HUSWELL

With HUSWELL we support owners of a vacation rental, second home or hotel with their property's daily management and optimization while providing our guests with an amazing holiday experience.

Director of Guest Experience

The newest location, Outpost Weligama Bay is a beautiful coliving/coworking space that's right on the beach in Weligama, a sleepy beach town in Sri Lanka full of surfers and yogi's that wakes up every season to enjoy the vibrant nightlife and great food. We have a great lineup of events for our community that emphasizes adventure, work/life balance and giving back to the local community.

General Manager

Outpost Ubud is the original Outpost location. A comfortable coliving space and reliable coworking space in the heart of Ubud with a regular lineup of events to engage our community. We also have our restaurant called Current and our Outpost Cafe.

CASPER kitchens

Jumpsquare Group

Park Manager

BAVET

Group Digital & Process Manager

Accor

Operations Manager

Founder & CEO @ Beacon Customer Support & Frontier Founders

As the CEO of Beacon I help European companies in the hospitality and leisure industry save on their labor cost by outsourcing guest support and reservations teams as well as back-office administration.

Before starting Beacon I spent over a decade in the hospitality industry running hotels, coworking space and restaurants in Belgium, Bali and Sri Lanka.

I also run Frontier Founders, a consultancy that helps people set up their dream business in exotic locations. 

I have a newsletter where I share weekly insights into doing business in South-East Asia and Africa here:
-> https://landing.frontier-founders.com/

Or check out the website at:
-> https://www.frontier-founders.com/

Or my YouTube channel at:
-> https://www.youtube.com/@Glenn.livesoutthere

Glenn N.

Founder

On Startup Sabatical

Smartsoft/Cardtek

Product customization, Technical & product support, presale activities for SmartSoft products (personalization/issuing products, authorization, EMV trainings) in NA Market. 

- Central Issuance
- Instant Issuance
- Authorization
- Training
- Consulting

Regional Technical/Product Manager - NA (U.S.)

Consultant @ RuPay

RuPay is India's banking authority (network scheme) which all the banks are member of. The banks follow its online messaging requirements and new technology specifications i.e. EMV, Transit and Mobile. RuPay today shown as one of the top 10 networks schemes world wide such as VISA, MasterCard. He is selected as consultant on Indian EMV dual specification i.e. contact and contactless EMV and open loop transit specification development. Its EMV Specification will be globally accepted application due to the global agreement between RuPay and Discover.
He as part of work developed EMV Contact (AID) specification, EMV Contactless (AID) specification and domestic interoperable domestic specification. 
The stakeholder parties are the member Acquirer banks, transit operators and the member Issuer banks

Consultant on EMV and Open Loop Transit - RuPay (India)

Smartsoft IT/Cardtek

Product customization, Technical & product support, presale activities for SmartSoft products (personalization/issuing products, authorization, EMV trainings) in NA Market.

Regional Technical/Product Manager - NA (Canada)

Marketting, Bussiness Development, Product Development, Partner Relationships
- VISA/MasterCard Mobile Payment Solutions (VMPA/MMP)

Director - Partner And Product

Software development on banking payment systems and EMV Technologies
- VISA&MasterCard EMV Contactless Migration Projects (Banks in Eastern Europe, YKB/Unicredito, Akbank/Citibank, Vakifbank)
- Transit Migration Projects ( Banks in Eastern Europe, Bankasya, Aktifbank)
- EMV Migration Projects (Banks in Eastern Europe, YKB/Unicredito, Akbank/Citibank, Sekerbank)
- EMV Personalization Projects (Mass & Instant Issuance)
- EMV L2 Contact and Contactless Development (POS & ATM)
- POS Banking Application Development (Schlumberger)
- Banking Payment System Development ( YKB/Unicredito, Akbank/Citibank, Vakifbank, Sekerbank, BKM, Everlink)
- Merchant Management System (Commission, Fees, Enrollment, , Terminal management...) (Aktifbank)
- Card Management System (Authorization, Fund management, Statement, ...) (Aktifbank)
- POS Clearing And Settlement (Aktifbank, Teknoloji holding, ...)
- Statement And Invoice (Aktifbank)
- Authorization & Switch Systems (Unicredito, Bankasya, Vakifbank, ... )
- Campaign Management System 
- Prepaid System (Unicredito, Aktifbank, ...)
- Fraud Management System (Vakifbank, Sekerbank, Bankasya, ...)
- Java Card Applet Development (Sekerbank) 
- Personalization Systems (YKB/Unicredito, Sekerbank, Vakifbank,...)
- Transit Systems (Bankasya, Aktifbank)

System Architect (Card Management, Transportation, Prepaid Systems)

Software development on banking payment systems and EMV Technologies
- VISA MasterCard Contactless Projects (payPass/payWave)
- Transportation Projects
- EMV Migration Projects
- EMV L2 Contact and Contactless Development
- POS Banking Application Development
- Banking Payment System Development
- Merchant Management System
- Card Management System
- Authorization & Switch Systems
- Prepaid System
- Fraud Management System
- Java Card Applet Development
- Personalization Systems

System Architect (EMV-Chip Solutions)

Software development on banking payment systems and EMV Technologies
- EMV L2 Contact and Contactless Development
- POS Banking Application Development
- Banking Payment System Development
- Merchant Management System
- Card Management System
- Authorization & Switch Systems
- Fraud Management System
- Java Card Applet Development 
- Personalization Systems

Technical Manager

Software development on banking payment systems and EMV Technologies
 - EMV L2 Contact and Contactless Development
 - POS Banking Application Development
  - Fraud Management System
  - Java Card Applet Development

Software Engineer

Some of Projects And Customers

Everlink Instant Issuance (Canada)
EMV Training/FIS (U.S.)
AktifBank (Turkey) Card/Merchant Management System
YapiKredi Bank (Turkey) Card Life Cycle Management System
BKM Mutual POS Project (Turkey) 
BankAsya Transportation System (Turkey)
Vakifbank, SekerBank, BankAsya, Turkey Finans Bank (Turkey) Fraud Management System
Vakifbank, BankAsya (Turkey) Script Management System
Teknoloji Holding (Turkey) Schlumerber Banking POS Application
YapiKredi, Vakifbank, SekerBank ... (Turkey) Card Issuing Personalization Systems (Instant Issuing And Mass Perso)
Tool Solutions (EMV Analyzer ,SmartQuality, Personalization Validation System) (Worldwide)

Specialties: English (Fluent), Russian (Intermediate), Turkish (Native)

Multithread system
Oracle OCA and OCP certification 
Microsoft SQL Server 2000-5 certification
Sale and customer relations training

.NET C# and ASP environment : 
    projects developed under C# and ASP for credit card management systems.
C/C++ :
    projects developed under C/C++ for banking host system 
Oracle :
    Credit card host system and others connected systems. OCA and OCP certification from Oracle.
MSSQL Server 2000-5

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