Ton
@ton
Co-founder
About
I am a strategic and holistic thinker with 30+ years' experience in payments, banking, ICT, insurance, government and start-ups. I have led teams, departments, and companies in program and project management, portfolio management, product development, devops, and cash recirculation. Having met Kelvin more than a decade ago. He has gracefully provided my son with an internship, and although we have always stayed in touch, ASD is our first concrete opportunity to actually work together. My focus is on the business side of our company, and the last quarter of a year has been an exciting rollercoaster ride.
What Drives Me
My drive is transforming an idea into a successful reality, closely working with specialists, partners/suppliers, and customers, while serving all stakeholders equally and in coherence.
Looking Ahead
The world is shifting. Geopolitics is no longer background noise: power blocs are reconfiguring, supply chains are fraying, and Europe is recalibrating strategic autonomy amid an aging, contracting workforce. In this pressure cooker, software becomes policy. AI is moving from novelty to infrastructure; automation is shifting from an efficiency play to a demographic necessity. Talent scarcity means hesitation is now a structural risk. We operate where regulation, ethics and velocity collide, translating uncertainty into executable systems. While others debate sovereignty and labour gaps, we deliver resilient software that lets Europe do more with less. We turn rapid change into measurable advantage. When assumptions expire faster than roadmaps, an extra 15 focused developer hours per week powers continuous experimentation and earlier decisions, so refactors stop problems before they scale. A ~60% reduction in development and test TCO and roughly 60% fewer environment incidents make stability a repeatable capability, not a fragile state—freeing capital and attention for strategic work. 50% faster merge-to-deploy and accelerated PoV-to-Production compress validation cycles so clients leave with tomorrow's architecture, not yesterday's certainty, accelerating revenue conversion and market traction. 10–15% better retention preserves institutional judgment and lowers execution risk. These hard outcomes convert to commercial and valuation upside only when paired with Day-1 governance, SOC metrics and 3–5 enterprise PoV-to-Production references. In a landscape where hesitation scales badly, those metrics turn disruption into predictable leverage. We engineer the future—deliberately, together.
