👥Team

Our team puts their deep experience and absolute passion into creating innovative solutions designed to support merchants in their journey to success. We truly believe in the potential of the NBCgate platform and how it can turn the perception of payment solutions for merchants upside down. With our unique approach and extensive experience in FinTech projects, we will ensure that the NBCgate platform is designed to be a robust tool to realize your ambitious goals.

Team contacts

Core team	Experience
Vladimir Ruppel Chief Executive Officer ”At present, many entrepreneurs and people all over the world have a firmly established opinion that cryptocurrencies are for the chosen few and are primarily a speculative tool. That's why the NBCgate platform and its solutions are designed to demonstrate the advantages and safety of cryptocurrency transactions in trade operations”.	More than 17 years of experience in creating, developing and managing FinTech projects. Founder and CEO of Kassa24 group of FinTech companies, which includes: Transaction processing center - kassa24.kz; electronic purse - Plus24; Platform for entrepreneurs (acquiring + fiscalization of commodity transactions) - business.kassa24.kz; last mile operator - mypost.kz. Kassa24 group operated in Kazakhstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Philippines. The valuation of the group for the year 2021 was 100 million USD. Registered copyrights: E-money system "Personal Cash Desk" for mobile applications on iOS and Android platforms; Software to manage the network of POS terminals; E-money system "Personal Cash Desk" (software); The computer system (software complex) "Avangard-Plat Retail Payment Processing System"; The computer system (software complex) "Astana-Plat Retail Payment Processing System".
Mikhail Grankin Legal Director "NBCGate is a forge of modern tools and services allowing entrepreneurs and their clients to make secure and instant transactions in cryptocurrency and the benefits of blockchain technology."	Legal support experience for businesses since 2003. Legal support/provision of fintech companies since 2008. Managing fintech projects since 2014: Involvement in the development, legal support and development of the payment processing system "Astana-Plat" (tm. Kassa24); Involvement in the development, legal support and development of the electronic money system "Личная касса" (Plus24); Legal expertise of payment processing projects in Turkey (vezne24.tr and v24.tr), India and the Philippines (kassa24.ph); Registration of trademarks, inclusion of computer systems in government and other registries, certification of products/services, including security requirements according to the PCI DSS standard; Initiator and Chairman of the Board of two associations in the Republic of Kazakhstan (Association of manufacturers of fiscal hardware-software complexes and Association of electronic money operators). There are certificates for taxation of transactions with non-residents, countering money laundering of income obtained through criminal means, and countering financing of terrorism.
Yevgeny Kuchkovskiy Chief Customer Officer "Professionalism and a thirst for new. Transparency and novelty. Profitability and legitimacy. Adventure and calculation. Balancing on a fine line? Believing in ourselves? - We know how and we practice it."	Since 2008, he participated in the development of the Kassa24 Group project as the CEO of the terminal network project. Kassa24 Group not only took 50% share of the competitive market of terminals in the Republic of Kazakhstan ($200 million turnover per month) but also actively developed new directions: A network of postal terminals to address the "last mile" delivery issue, a universal platform for corporate clients to aggregate various channels of payment acceptance, acquiring for small and medium-sized businesses. At the same time, the team developed foreign projects: in Turkey and the Philippines, payment aggregators with special licenses to provide financial services were opened. Evgeny was directly involved in the management of all projects.
Stanislav Li Chief Product Officer "Following the concept of continuous improvement, each member of the NBCGate team daily works towards personal growth. These changes help us stay flexible, avoid stagnation, regularly improve our business processes, enhance our digital products, and raise the quality of services we provide. Consistency and discipline are not just words for us!”	Higher education in Computer Science and Software. Co-founder of the Ecommerce project in the FMCG sector Was the head of the digital-marketing department of the advertising agency. Promoted both local and international companies on the internet Worked as a marketing director in a financial organization Entered the top 5 marketing directors of Ecommerce companies in Kazakhstan in 2019 Was a member of expert jury in Kazakhstan Contextual Advertising Agencies Rating 2019 Worked as CPO for CRM, ERP systems development company Since 2019 In CPO position was engaged in development of B2B and B2C products in FinTech company Kassa24: Managed product development: internet acquiring, payment fiscalization system Managed the development of Plus24 e-wallet for B2C segment: ranked among the top 3 financial apps in Kazakhstan. Downloaded from App Store and Google Play >500,000 times. Peaked at 100,000 MAUs Successfully launched several B2B projects, including: payroll, mass payouts, Instagram storefront and the Kassa24 Business mobile app for small and medium-sized businesses