Mr. Hugo Daley is cofounder and CEO of Transcel Limited, a technology services company focused on the interoperability services required to support complex mobile financial service partnerships. His company currently advises the Development Bank of Jamaica on Mobile Money policy and strategy and is launching service operations in the Caribbean region.
Mr. Daley’s prior senior corporate positions include CEO for Isadra, Inc, and Vice President for Advanced Technology, Verticalnet, Inc. Following the 1999 $50 million acquisition of his Silicon Valley technology company, Isadra, by Verticalnet, Mr. Daley headed the strategy for the deployment of his advanced supply-chain products into the Global 1000 marketplace. In recent years, Mr. Daley has brought his extensive background in technology ventures to a management consulting practice in technology strategy and innovation marketing. In that capacity, Mr. Daley has served in the role of CTO of the start-up company SecureCard Technologies, was Senior Advisor to the “Sustainable Environments” company, SE Corporation, and has provided consulting services to companies developing new cross-border financial services. He is co-founder and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Effective Metrix Inc., a software company focused on optimization in the manufacturing value chain.
Mr. Daley has authored white papers and technical articles on innovation diffusion, Internet commerce and technology impacts on economic development. Mr. Daley holds the M.S. in Telecom Economics and Systems Planning from Syracuse University and completed doctoral work in Information and Computer Science at Stanford University before leaving to pursue his career in high-technology ventures.