Executive Team

Steve Orosco, Founder

Steve Orosco is a former Wall Street broker, professional MMA fighter, and the Founder of The SMASH HQ Corporation. After years in the cage, Steve identified an opportunity to raise the level of class and sophistication in the sport by creating entertainment events for premium clientele.

With an MBA, an MS degree, and extensive professional fighting experience, Orosco is uniquely equipped to lead and manage a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) events organization.

After spending the last 10 years living in Los Angeles he decided to take his knowledge and passion of the industry back to Connecticut where his love for the sport of MMA began. In doing so he opened SMASH HQ, an institute for advanced human performance. From starting his athletic career representing the Rhode Island National Freestyle Wrestling Team and turning Pro in the sport of MMA to training athletes that range from High School All Americans to professional athletes who have become world champions. Steve, has well over 25 years of hands-on performance-based knowledge, is an expert in the art of mindset coaching, and has become a leader in the One Meal A Day lifestyle. As a result, he fully understands all of the different facets related to human performance in order to push athletes to the highest level.

Nicholas DePalmer, Co Founder

Steve approached Nicholas in 2014 with the goal of becoming one of the leading sports and entertainment promotion companies in the booming combat sports sector. Nicholas saw Steve’s vision and has played a significant role in contributing to the success of the SMASH Corporation platform.

Nicholas has worked with multi-national companies including SIRVA, Trojan and UFC; leading brands such as Amazon, DirecTV and Razer; and, major nonprofit organizations such as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s After-School Allstars.

Aside from NOYO, Nicholas has an equity stake with web startup FACE:USA (Aesthetics Sales), was drafted as a professional gamer by the television show Championship Gaming Series (aired live to 100 million homes worldwide). In addition, he has advised for Steve Stoute (Founder and CEO of the New York brand development and marketing firm Translation).

Prior to NOYO, Nicholas studied Business and Computer Science at Thomas College (a private graduate school). Away from SMASH Corporation, Nicholas is a huge fan of professional boxing and can be found boating in San Diego, California.

Greg Jurinka, Technology Director

Greg has been the Director of Technology of SMASH Corporation since 2014. In addition, he is a co-founder of numerous large projects: Szifon.com in 2007, one of the largest Apple-related websites in Hungary with over 180,000 unique visitors per month; Cardy International, which developed a home-use ECG device and corresponding app; Indulhatunk.hu Group, Hungary’s largest travel group; and, AndroidHungary.com which became the most visited Android-related blog in 2010 and 2011.

Greg has been working in the IT Industry for over 13 years. He quickly learned how to create a high ROI with limited resources and is an expert at software automation (self-sustainable technology). He excels as an Apple iOS developer, Android developer, and he is highly skilled at working on any type of website programming and API integrations.

Highly talented, Greg speaks Hungarian, English, French, and German. His hobbies include traveling, spending quality time with friends, and motorcycles. He is a huge fan of Apple products. In addition, he holds a B.A. degree from the University of Budapest for Business, IT & Economics.

Viktor Kotschy, Marketing Director

Viktor brings over 20 years of design expertise to SMASH Corporation. His specialties include illustration, logo creation, branding, and print media. In addition, his passion for web design benefits our clients by providing them with highly creative, innovative, and user-friendly layouts that are immensely functional as well.

His client base encompasses over 50 studios and his portfolio boasts over 1,000 website designs. Viktor holds a degree in marketing management, and he is fluent in English and Hungarian.

Viktor’s love of all things visual and design-based began when he was a child, who enjoyed drawing as well as working on his custom Windows computer that he built himself, rather than limit himself to MAC as typical designers do. Viktor is a huge fan of Samsung devices.

He enjoys spending most of his time with his wife, Viktoria, and daughter, Kyra. His interests range from motorsports and fast cars to photography and traveling. Viktor’s first gift from NOYO Web Development was an official Ferrari jacket which he loves to wear and he also collects autographs from movie stars and professional athletes who sign his work.

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