Founders and leadership

Meet the founders behind ProsperApps.

Two co-founders anchor the company across technology, product direction, commercialization, and operations.

Co-founders

Two founders with complementary responsibilities across product, technology, operations, and market direction.

Jan-Erik Vinje

Co-founder, CEO/CTO

Jan-Erik combines company building, product strategy, deep technical architecture, and open-standards work across real-world spatial computing. Public sources describe him as CEO and CTO of OnSiteViewer, a co-founder and Executive Co-Director of the Open AR Cloud Association, and a contributor to Open Geospatial Consortium GeoPose work and related interoperability efforts.

At ProsperApps, that mix maps to company direction, portfolio coherence, platform architecture, and the technical quality bar across product lines.

CEO and CTO of OnSiteViewer, focused on AR-assisted urban-planning and on-site visualization.
Co-founder and Executive Co-Director of the Open AR Cloud Association.
Contributor and co-chair-level participant in OGC GeoPose and open spatial-web standards work.
Public speaker and collaborator across AWE, OGC, Metaverse-related standards efforts, and allied conference ecosystems.

LinkedIn OnSiteViewer Open AR Cloud

Ali C. Hantal

Co-founder, CMO, COO

Ali brings commercialization, strategic partnerships, operational leadership, and emerging-technology ecosystem work. Public sources describe him as a strategic technology advisor and entrepreneur, CEO of XR Masters, Executive Co-Director of the Open AR Cloud Association, and an active participant in Metaverse Standards Forum, OGC-adjacent interoperability work, and Augmented World Expo events.

At ProsperApps, that maps to go-to-market direction, strategic partnerships, operations, market communication, and making the broader company story legible without flattening the substance.

CEO of XR Masters and active strategic advisor across XR and spatial-computing initiatives.
Executive Co-Director and current co-president-level leader in the Open AR Cloud Association.
Publicly active in Metaverse Standards Forum, interoperability efforts around GeoPose and POI, and AWE-related speaking and organizing.
Experienced in turning frontier-technology ideas into partnership, ecosystem, and market-development work.

LinkedIn XR Masters Open AR Cloud

Combined relevant experience

Prior work across products, standards, ecosystem building, and public-facing technology leadership.

The founders bring a mix of company-building, platform architecture, commercialization, operations, interoperability work, and public field-building across spatial computing and adjacent technology ecosystems.

Company building and product direction

Founding and operating new technology companies

Together the founders bring experience from OnSiteViewer, XR Masters, advising work, product strategy, go-to-market work, and building new ventures around emerging technology.

Open standards and ecosystem work

Interoperability, GeoPose, OGC, OARC, and Metaverse Standards Forum

Their public work spans Open AR Cloud, GeoPose, Open Geospatial Consortium efforts, Metaverse Standards Forum participation, and broader advocacy for open, interoperable spatial computing.

Public speaking and field-building

Conference, community, and industry-facing leadership

That includes visible activity across AWE and related conferences, standards groups, ecosystem organizing, and public efforts to make frontier technology more legible and more responsibly built.

Leadership model

The company still needs a broader operating structure around the founders.

Founder roles matter, but ProsperApps also needs clear stewardship across governance, product, operations, customer work, and security if it is going to scale without drifting away from its stated standards.

Ownership, governance, and long-horizon alignment

Foundation stewardship

ProsperApps exists to operate inside the Prosper Foundation logic, so leadership must keep ownership structure, mission integrity, and declaration commitments aligned.

Platform strategy, quality bar, and interoperability

Product and architecture

Product and technical leadership must keep ProsperApps coherent across multiple solution lines while protecting portability, privacy, and long-term product quality.

Execution, staffing, financial discipline, and service reliability

Operations and delivery

Operational leadership is responsible for turning the declaration into daily practice instead of letting it remain branding language.

Data minimization, trust posture, and incident resilience

Security and privacy

Security leadership ensures that privacy promises and data-handling discipline become part of how services are designed and operated.

Bespoke SaaS engagements and commercial fit

Customer solutions and partnerships

Partnership leadership helps determine when a third-party build request can genuinely be delivered under the declaration without compromising the model.

Leadership standard

Competence and responsibility without corporate excess.

Leadership should be paid well for skill, accountability, and delivery, but not financed into absurd executive lifestyles.
The point of leadership here is to steward a foundation-aligned software company, not to optimize private extraction from it.
Product, operational, and financial decisions should remain legible against the commitments ProsperApps claims to stand for.