Founder Profiles

Corporate Banker with over 25 years with Standard Chartered across Greater China, Japan, Korea, Middle East. Regional business Head and Exco member with P&L responsibility for complex portfolio of USD1bn+. Experienced in regulatory engagements with likes of PBOC and HKMA. Scaled up cash management and trade & working capital solutions business. Board Member of fintech TAS Connect. Certified in sustainable finance. Extensive media experience. Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma holder

Capital Markets, Alternatives, Portfolio Management, Proprietary Trading, and Institutional Advisory specialist with two decades of experience in senior buy- and sell-side roles based in major financial centres. Engineer, CFA Charter holder and INSEAD MBA, with advanced certifications in portfolio construction, machine learning, and DeFi.

Biswajyoti Upadhyay
Dhiraj Chandak
Hugo-Lancelot Marty
Navdeep Marwaha

Consumer finance & payments specialist with 25 years of experience across Southeast Asia, India, and the UK, senior roles in major organization including Mastercard, Bank of England/Financial Services Authority, American Express, and GE Money. Proven track record in market expansion, corporate strategy, roll out of prudential supervision across the EU, commercialization of strategic equity investments. INSEAD MBA and Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma holder

Sam D

Capital Markets specialist with 25 years track record in crafting and delivering strategic growth, improving bottomline from cost and operational efficiencies, enhancing return on financial resources through data-driven approach to resource allocation, management of large-scale business restructuring, due diligence of inorganic opportunities and post-merger integration. INSEAD MBA with work experience at both strategy consultancy (Oliver Wyman) and banks (Nomura, Citi, Mizuho)

Risk and data expert with 30+ years experience in capital markets. In addition to his senior roles in Front office risk, trading, structuring he managed and delivered large scale global programs navigating cross-cultural and cross-functional complexities. Deep expertise across all major markets and products including rates, credit, equity, hybrids, CVA, funds, US mortgages, CLOs and secured funding transactions. Senior management roles at the likes of Nomura Securities, Lehman Brothers and Société Générale