The Team
We’re a passionate team of entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers with backgrounds in media, technology and publishing.
Nelson B. Thall
Co-Founder and CEO
Nelson is a media and technology entrepreneur with lifelong roots in newspaper and online publishing businesses. He is responsible for setting the company’s overall direction and product strategy. Nelson is passionately evolving the way people experience the web for society to reap greater rewards from the internet, making it easier to discover and discuss the web, and increasing engagement at the places people own, their websites.
Nelson's LinkedIn
Nelson's LinkedIn
Henry Thall
Co-Founder and COO
Henry runs our development team, design, and testing resources within an agile environment. He manages the end-to-end requirements, quality, and delivery of mobile and web applications on various platforms (iOS, Android, Web). Henry is a constant reader and student of media, culture and communication and how it affects the times in which we live.
Kit Gerasimov
Head of Technology
Kit’s task is to bring people closer together with Hvr by making it intuitive and natural. He is a linguist in a very broad sense of the word and studies human communication through language, signs, emotions, and technology. Kit is deeply fascinated with all things mathematical, musical and historical. Cloud scholar, PostgresQL magician, IaC enthusiast, and mobile dev.
Skilled in Python, PostgresQL, Flutter, serverless event-driven AWS stuff - SQS, SNS, EventBridge, AWS Lambda; also - AWS CloudFormation, RDS, ECS, AWS Code* services, S3 and others.Cloud scholar, PostgresQL magician, IaC enthusiast, a bit of a mobile dev. Skilled at: Python, PostgresQL, Flutter, serverless event-driven AWS stuff - SQS, SNS, EventBridge, AWS Lambda; also - AWS CloudFormation, RDS, ECS, AWS Code* services, S3 and others.
Skilled in Python, PostgresQL, Flutter, serverless event-driven AWS stuff - SQS, SNS, EventBridge, AWS Lambda; also - AWS CloudFormation, RDS, ECS, AWS Code* services, S3 and others.Cloud scholar, PostgresQL magician, IaC enthusiast, a bit of a mobile dev. Skilled at: Python, PostgresQL, Flutter, serverless event-driven AWS stuff - SQS, SNS, EventBridge, AWS Lambda; also - AWS CloudFormation, RDS, ECS, AWS Code* services, S3 and others.
Ronen Benin
Strategist and Fractional CFO
In the last 12 years, Ronen has built five companies (enterprise SaaS, consumer SaaS,
biotech/prop-tech), sold 2, and has experienced a tremendous deal of both ups and downs typical to an
entrepreneur’s journey.
Ronen has experience with angel and institutional investor fundraising,
government innovation grant applications, product development, and anything related to managing rapidly
growing teams. He is an adaptive, results-focused strategist who enjoys working on disruptive projects.
Built, scaled and sold multiple ventures, including the acquisition of Tradyo Inc. by Metroland Media (a
division of Torstar) in 2014.
Ronen's LinkedIn
Ronen's LinkedIn
Jesse Capon
Co-Founder
Jesse has been awarded patents in Communication Encryption, IT Security, Digital Platforms, and Networks. Jesse has created and protected IP in the spaces of technology, music, marketing, media, telecommunications, banking & financing, app development, entertainment, higher learning, and not-for-profit.
Co-founder and Director of HVR Technologies Inc, Founder of The Joule Group. Clients have included: Google, Rogers, Cisco and TD. Attended Berklee, York, VIU, and The Banff Center.
Casie Stewart
Sitepartner Program & Social
Casie manages Hvr's Sitepartner program and social media. She is an award-winning content creator and expert in digital media. Casie has been at the forefront of brand storytelling through influencer marketing and started her social media career at MuchMusic & MTV Canada. Casie is also co-host of Hvr's Cast of Creators podcast.
Jackie Lee
UI/UX Designer
Jackie ensures the flow of our products feels familiar, the design system is well maintained, and the visual language meets our expectations. He designs delightful experiences for digital products by crafting visually creative and consistent user interfaces. Outside of Hvr, he continues to sharpen his craft through branding design and illustration.