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Project Manager – Le Van Duc
Role & Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & Project Management: Oversee all operational and strategic aspects of the project, fostering team collaboration and ensuring the highest quality of deliverables.
Market Research & Opportunity Analysis: Conduct in-depth market analysis to identify trends, evaluate competition, and design effective go-to-market strategies.
User Experience Research (UX): Gather and analyze insights on user needs, behaviors, and preferences to ensure the solution remains user-centric and meets the expectations of stakeholders.
Progress Reporting: Prepare comprehensive reports for Catalyst, detailing milestones, achievements, and challenges, ensuring full transparency and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
Experience & Key Achievements:
Entrepreneurship & Business Growth: Over 10 years of hands-on experience in business development across multiple industries. Co-founder of Big Family Pharmacy, a nationwide pharmaceutical franchise that scaled to more than 1,000 branches within only 3 years.(https://dantri.com.vn/suc-khoe/chuoi-nha-thuoc-lien-ket-big-family-thuong-hieu-don-bay-cua-nha-thuoc-viet-20220326083148786.htm )
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Expertise: More than 7 years in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, with deep knowledge of decentralized applications, tokenomics, and blockchain-based business models.
Community Building & Ecosystem Development: Founding member of Snowball Crypto, a trusted and growing Cardano community brand focused on creating impactful solutions that strengthen the ecosystem.
Certifications: Holder of the Cardano Blockchain Certified Associate (CBCA), demonstrating strong expertise in Cardano’s architecture, principles, and applications.
Community Manager – Nguyen Luong Ngoc
Role & Key Responsibilities:
Community Engagement & Growth: Lead the design and execution of strategies to build, nurture, and expand the GreenSnap user community, ensuring active participation and long-term commitment from individuals and organizations.
Environmental Advocacy: Leverage his expertise in grassroots environmental movements to align community activities with the project’s mission of promoting “green actions” and sustainability awareness.
Partnership & Volunteer Management: Coordinate with local organizations, businesses, and volunteers to implement eco-campaigns, pilot programs, and large-scale events, ensuring smooth collaboration and measurable impact.
Content & Communication Strategy: Utilize strong social media influence to promote project initiatives, create engaging educational content, and inspire community-wide behavioral change toward sustainable living.
Feedback Loop for Product Development: Act as the bridge between users and the development team, collecting insights, feedback, and behavioral data to refine the app and ensure it remains user-centric.
Experience & Key Achievements:
Founder of Saigon Xanh (SGX): Established one of Vietnam’s pioneering grassroots environmental organizations with the mission to prevent plastic waste from polluting waterways and coastlines.
Impact on Environmental Sustainability:
Collected over 3,000 tons of waste from rivers and urban areas.
Organized more than 250 environmental programs with the participation of nearly 2,000 volunteers.
Successfully cleaned 255 waterways across multiple provinces in Vietnam.
Recognition & Awards: Honored by national agencies and local organizations for outstanding contributions to environmental protection and civic engagement.

Social Media Influence & Outreach:
TikTok: 3.6 million followers, 68M+ likes (https://www.tiktok.com/@saigon_xanh?lang=en)
Facebook: 1.4 million followers. (https://www.facebook.com/sgx.vn/)
YouTube: 368K subscribers. (https://www.youtube.com/@saigonxanhgroup)
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Mai Trong Hieu (Mike)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hieu-mike/
Role & Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Architecture Design: Define and oversee the technical vision, system architecture, and product roadmap, ensuring the platform is robust, scalable, and aligned with Cardano’s ecosystem standards.
Blockchain Integration & Smart Contract Development: Lead the design and deployment of secure, efficient smart contracts for eco-action verification, token issuance, and NFT reward mechanisms on Cardano.
Infrastructure & Security Oversight: Ensure backend systems, APIs, and databases are reliable, high-performing, and protected against vulnerabilities, maintaining user trust and compliance with best practices.
Innovation with Emerging Technologies: Apply his expertise in blockchain, AI, and fintech to enhance features such as fraud detection, eco-action validation, and impact data analysis.
Team Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Provide guidance to the engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and best practices in agile software development.
Delivery & Quality Assurance: Oversee technical execution across all milestones, ensure timely delivery, rigorous testing, and smooth integration between blockchain and user facing application.
Experience & Key Achievements:
10+ Years in Software Engineering: Proven expertise in delivering complex, high-performance systems across fintech and mortgage industries, where precision, compliance, and reliability are critical.
Current Role as CTO of Ekotek: Responsible for driving the company’s technological strategy, supervising advanced software solutions, and ensuring the infrastructure is scalable, secure, and future-ready.
Blockchain & AI Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems and machine learning applications, enabling him to bridge cutting-edge technology with practical use cases in sustainability and community engagement.
Proven Record of Technical Excellence: Successfully led multiple digital transformation projects, positioning Ekotek as one of Vietnam's leading technology firms.

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