We are engineers, product builders and operators who have significant experience in building large scale technology platform businesses at the intersection of core processing, banking, lending and insurtech.
Tallied leverages a diverse, distributed team spanning across – Poland, Canada and the US, this remote-first approach enables us to attract top talent regardless of location, bringing together unique perspectives that drive innovation.
Sunil Singh is a seasoned Fintech executive/operator leader and has over two decades of strategic and entrepreneurial leadership driving product strategy, scaling revenue, and operationalizing businesses for rapid growth-scale and profitability for organizations ranging from early-stage startups to large public companies.
Before founding Tallied, he held leadership roles at several well-known Fintechs including Marqeta, Blackhawk Network, and LendUp where he helped enable these companies to build multi-billion-dollar businesses in card issuance-processing, lending, banking, and payments. He holds an MBA from Babson college and a BS in Engineering from Jadavpur University in India.
Mike Gionfriddo is a lifelong technologist. He has deep experience in building scalable, modern fintech and financial services platforms, for companies like Blackhawk Network and JP Morgan Chase. Prior to Tallied, Mike was CTO at Pie Insurance where he built and led the engineering and data teams and helped deliver the first public API for commercial insurance. As Chief Architect and CTO of Blackhawk, he oversaw productand technology development, leveraging the public cloud to lead the company tobecome the fifth largest and fastest processor on the Visa network, and help Blackhawk to IPO.
Mike earned the prestigious title of Distinguished Engineer from Sun Microsystems and pioneered the use of Java for system and network management as the development lead. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and holds multiple patents.
Vinni Bala is an industry veteran with over two decades of experience in the cards space focused on credit, product, and operations with extensive expertise from large banks to fintechs - building organizations from the ground up. After spending years at managing credit card programs at large banks such as Citi, and Wells Fargo, he made the move to early stage fintech companies in helping them scale. As Chief CreditOfficer at Deserve, Vinni led credit and operations - launching the Sallie Mae credit card program on the platform. After Deserve, Vinni led the credit and debit card division at a $9B credit union and built the operations infrastructure and card program at Kikoff.
Vinni holds a Bachelor’s in English from Creighton University and an MBA from Fordham University.
Ron DiGiacomo has over 35 years of experience as a lawyer, compliance, and business advisor to several major financial institutions and financial services firms. Previously, Ron was EVP and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer - Consumer for Wells Fargo and Chief Compliance Officer for the Consumer Bank at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase & Co., Ron was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for USAA Bank. Before joining USAA, Ron was the Practice Group Leader for Banking and Insurance in Ford Motor Credit Company’s legal department and was responsible for establishing Ford Credit’s insurance arrangements throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. Before joining Ford, Ron was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for American General Finance (now part of OneMain Financial).
Ron is licensed to practice law in Texas and Florida and earned his law degree at Florida State University College of Law and Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Finance at Florida State University.