Steve Levely, CEO
Operational executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across software, telecom, marketing services, and payments. Steve is the Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Ackroo, one of North America’s prominent consolidators in the loyalty-program, gift-card, payments, and POS-software business . Steve steered Ackroo through a transformation from startup-stage to a publicly traded consolidator using strategic M&A, capital-markets initiatives, and aggressive sector consolidation. He then sold Ackroo to a strategic buyer Paystone in 2025.
Ramesh Saud, VP of Engineering
Technology leader with a proven track record in architecting scalable systems (Freshii, Pita Pit) across SaaS, commerce, and enterprise applications. As CTO at Shopley, Ramesh leads the development of our modular, AI-powered platform, ensuring every layer of the stack supports speed, flexibility, and long-term growth. With deep expertise in full-stack engineering and DevOps, he brings a hands-on approach to systems design, team leadership, and technical delivery. Ramesh is known for building high-performing teams, translating business goals into robust technical roadmaps, and driving innovation while maintaining engineering excellence.
Eric Bucci, VP of Operations
Operations leader with deep experience scaling SaaS and commerce platforms across retail and hospitality. As a founding team member at Shopley, Eric has led cross-functional teams across customer success, implementation, and support, managing over 200 accounts and driving improvements in onboarding speed, customer retention, and recurring revenue. He helped reduce POS onboarding time from 3 weeks to 3 days, secured major enterprise deals including Canada's largest restaurant group, and launched new revenue streams through value-added services.
Jake Cunningham, Product & Support Manager
As Product & Support Manager at Shopley, Jake blends product design, and technical insight to craft tools that empower small businesses and their customers. Drawing on his background in customer support and system/game programming, he champions customer-led innovation that drives loyalty and growth.
Omar Sahyoun
Serial entrepreneur, notably co-founder of Canada’s first and largest independent daily deal sites TeamBuy & Dealfind, with over 4M members (today Emerge Commerce, tsxv: ECom). Incubator & CBO of recently exited Ario Platform, a digital banking platform for SMB / Retailer financing and backed by Omers. Previously, Executive Advisor at Purpose Financial, next gen asset/wealth management and banking platform with $8B+ in AUM. Co-founding partner at Tidal Impact, a digitally driven investment holding group focusing on Impact / Purpose driven small business.
Gary Kalk
Chairman of the Board at Dealer-FX and Unoapp and with 30+ years of experience accelerating and scaling SaaS businesses, having exited Dealer-FX to global private equity player HGGC in 2015. He is an operator at heart and held senior roles in automotive retail marketing and operations, giving him an awareness of all aspects of a business. Gary has developed customer experience and retention programs for leading OEMs General Motors, Ford, FCA, Lexus, Toyota, Audi, VW, Nissan, Infiniti, Honda, Acura, KIA, Hyundai, Mazda, Mitsubishi & Subaru.
Steve Levely
Operational executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across software, telecom, marketing services, and payments. Steve is the Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Ackroo, one of North America’s prominent consolidators in the loyalty-program, gift-card, payments, and POS-software business . Steve steered Ackroo through a transformation from startup-stage to a publicly traded consolidator using strategic M&A, capital-markets initiatives, and aggressive sector consolidation. He then sold Ackroo to a strategic buyer Paystone in 2025.
His philosophy: consolidation, centralized operations + fast execution.
Greg Larido
Gregory Larido holds B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University and has built a career as an engineer, entrepreneur and investor. With early mentorship from his father and grandfather, he developed a deep value, long-term investing approach, starting in public markets before expanding into private investments. He has led captial raises and financing rounds across multiple industries, supporting both private and public companies.
Gregory brings experience across multiple industries and is currently managing partener at 5 Star Capital, a co-founder of several ventures and a strategic advisor helping companies scale.
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