Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder
Former founder of Playbasis (Series A
Fintech/loyalty rewards management
startup HQ’ed in Southeast Asia)
Engineering Director
Former CTO at multiple startups
(Playbasis, Salary Hero)
M.Sc. Computer Science
University of Southern California
Software Engineer
Former Front-end Engineer at Refinitiv
(London Stock Exchange Group)
Bachelor of Computer Science
Chulalongkorn University
Software Engineer
Former Machine Learning at Kasikorn
Bank Technology Group (Thailand)
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Chulalongkorn University
Board Director, Co-founder
Successful Entrepreneur and
Management Consultant, Former
Investor at Playbasis
Robert Zepeda is the founder, Managing Director, and CTO of Foremost Technology Company Limited, a tech startup building innovative industry solutions with an AI-first approach.
Prior to establishing Foremost Technology Co. Ltd., from 2013 through 2020 Mr. Zepeda was the founder and former CEO of PlayBasis, an award-winning Southeast Asia-headquartered Fintech rewards management platform powered by a rules-based gamification engine. In 2015, PlayBasis announced that it had successfully raised Series A financing, becoming only the fifth company in Thailand to reach that milestone.
Through his pioneering work at PlayBasis, Mr. Zepeda generated US$200m in gross transaction volume on behalf of clients and US$1m in Software-as-a-Service revenue for the business, achieving a mid-thirties compound annual growth rate and cash flow break-even while growing the PlayBasis platform to 20 million registered users with 20 billion points issued, partnering with key players such as Visa & Amazon Web Services, and acquiring a portfolio of blue-chip clients including Unilever, Development Bank of Singapore, DBS Hong Kong, AIA Group, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Krungsri MUFG Bank, Telenor Group's Digi Telecom and dtac Wallet, StarHub Communications, True Money Wallet, True Corporation, Tops Supermarket, TMB Bank, Thai Airways, and SwissRe.
In addition to day-to-day management of the 20-person company, Mr. Zepeda was responsible for setting the company vision and go-to-market strategy, managing relationships with key stakeholders, leading the execution of the product roadmap, driving sales and revenue, and raising external financing for the business.
Some of Mr. Zepeda's awards and appearances include:
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