Our Team – VERU365

Harvey Sax

Founder and Chief Visionary Officer

Mr Sax is the founder of VERU 365 and it’s his vision and drive that created the Company. Sax has a lifetime of experience in the securities industry and is now building the product he started 30 years earlier when he launched one of the first Internet companies on NASDAQ,

The Insiders Fund

Mr. Sax serves as the Portfolio Manager for The Insiders Fund, an SEC-registered long/short equity fund. BarclayHedge has repeatedly recognized The Insiders Fund as one of the Top Ten long/short hedge funds, and the Fund’s performance last year, with a return of 30.83%, placed it within the top decile.

Alpha Wealth Funds

Previously, Mr. Sax was the founder of Alpha Wealth Funds, a wealth management firm based in Park City, Utah, which has been repeatedly recognized as “Best of the Park Record”.

Early Internet Company

Harvey Sax was a pioneer in the Internet era.
President and CEO, HomeCom Communications, Inc.
January 1995–December 2000
Atlanta, Georgia

Established and managed one of the earliest Internet companies.
Led the public listing of HomeCom in May 1997 on NASDAQ through Ladenburg Thallman.
HomeCom was recognized by Deloitte & Touche as the #219 fastest-growing technology company in 2000, with a 5-year growth rate of 1899%.
Successfully raised over $50 million in capital.
The client base included blue-chip organizations such as ABN AMRO, Aetna, AT&T, AFLAC, Allstate, AIG, Brinker’s, Cova, The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, Darden’s, Cuna Mutual, Landry’s, Morgan Stanley, F&G Life, Georgia Pacific, Health Net, IVANS, Marine Midland, Munich Reinsurance, Norwest, John Nuveen & Co, Robinson Humphrey, SouthTrust Bank, Synovus, Summit Bank, THQ, Darden, and many others.
HCOM grew Host America from a zero-customer base to over 3,000 hosted websites.
HCOM developed one of the first online insurance platforms, known as InsureRate.
Participated in the design and product development of one of the first blogging software packages, Internet banking software, and numerous strategic consulting engagements with Fortune 500 companies.

Dmitry Pokhilko

Co-Founder & CEO

Dmitry Pokhilko is the kind of leader who doesn’t just perform under pressure — he’s built for it. A UC Berkeley-educated economist who accelerated through his program a full year early — eager to trade the classroom for real-world impact — Dmitry brings a rare combination of analytical rigor and bold strategic vision to everything he builds. A recipient of the Russian Federation Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Success, his drive for excellence predates his career and has followed him into every room he’s entered since. His years operating in high-pressure trading and quantitative finance, environments where hesitation is a liability and being wrong is expensive, forged a decision-making instinct that is fast, precise, and grounded in data rather than gut alone.

As Co-Founder and CEO of Veru 365, Dmitry has been the driving strategic and operational force behind the company from inception. He leads with the conviction that meaningful progress requires accepting real risk — not recklessly, but deliberately, with clear eyes and a steady hand. Adversity is part of the calculus, not a detour from it, and that resilience is what allows him to make bold calls where others hesitate. An immigrant who chose San Francisco as the place to build something that matters, he has navigated the full arc of starting over in a new country — building credibility, building networks, and building a company — learning through every setback along the way

Kentaro Vadney

Founding Engineer

Kentaro Vadney is the kind of engineer who builds entire systems where most teams would need a department. A UC Berkeley computer scientist and top 1% merit scholar, he has spent his career at the edge of where software is heading rather than where it has been, from co-authoring systems research on fault-tolerant consensus at Berkeley’s RISE Lab to training the language models that now write code alongside him. Before Veru 365 he cut frontend load times in half and rewrote backend services for a fivefold gain in throughput at a prior company, co-founded the engineering team at an early-stage startup, and helped benchmark the autonomous coding agents now reshaping the industry. That blend of deep fundamentals
and frontier fluency is exactly what building a financial platform
from nothing demands.

As Founding Engineer of Veru 365, Kentaro architected the product end to end: the web application, the backend and cloud
infrastructure, a suite of proprietary stock screeners, an
AI-powered financial planning agent, secure bank integrations, and multi-tenant access control. More unusual is how he builds it. Operating as a one-person engineering team, he dispatches parallel AI agents that pick up work, write code, and ship features autonomously, sustaining the output of a full engineering org while keeping the architecture coherent and the quality bar high. He treats AI not as a shortcut but as leverage, a way to move at a velocity that matches the company’s ambition. For Kentaro, the goal was never just to ship features. It was to prove what a single focused engineer can build when the tools finally catch up to the vision.

Munish Gupta

Strategic Advisor & Cloud Architect

Munish brings over 25 years of world-class engineering leadership to the team, having served as a trusted advisor to senior executives at Google Cloud and their customers, Oracle, and the Royal Bank of Canada. With a career defined by driving large-scale digital transformations, he specializes in decomposing highly ambiguous, multi-million dollar business challenges into scalable, high-performance architectures. What distinguishes Munish in the industry is his rare duality of expertise: he pairs deep technical mastery in distributed systems and AI/MLOps with sophisticated financial acumen, having passed all three levels of the CFA program on his first attempt. This allows him to architect solutions that are not only technically superior but are also rigorously optimized for ROI and long-term business value.

Beyond his technical credentials, Munish is a dedicated mentor and strategic advocate known for his ability to build consensus across complex, global organizations. He is passionate about evolving engineering cultures from reactive “firefighting” to proactive, data-driven innovation hubs. Whether he is orchestrating the migration of 800+ distributed workloads or tuning mission-critical database clusters, Munish approaches every challenge with a “reliability-first” mindset and a commitment to transparent communication. His leadership ensures that technology remains a powerful tailwind for the business, enabling rapid innovation without sacrificing system stability or security.