Dan Doney – Securrency

Dan Doney is the CEO of Securrency, Inc, a RegTech/FinTech company that democratizes access to capital markets. Securrency’s platform uses distributed ledgers and a patented compliance model for “single click” token issuance, trade, and transfer. These tokens represent a new kind of financial instrument: liquid, dividend-yielding, digital currencies with the stability of bonds, transferability of…

Fady Seliman – Waha Capital

Mr. Fady Sleiman serves as Head of Information Technology at Waha Capital PJSC. Mr. Sleiman is responsible for information technology at Waha Capital and spearheads its operational transformation programme. He has over 15 years of experience in the finance, oil and gas, healthcare and aviation sectors in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.…

Gregory Simon – Loyaal

Greg Simon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Loyyal, a universal platform for the loyalty and rewards industry using blockchain and smart contract technology. Greg has been involved in the Blockchain industry since early 2013 and believes behavior incentification is the application to unleash the latent value in all things and relationships. Prior to discovering…

John Marx – Redhat

As FSI Region Director and Fintech Strategist, John provides open source technology solutions to FSI (Financial Services Industry) clients. His areas of expertise include OpenStack Cloud (IaaS), OpenShift (PaaS, and Container Orchestration), CloudForms, JBoss Middleware, Ceph storage and Red Hat Virtualization. John is based out of Red Hat’s Manhattan office and serves global clients in…

Mirna Seliman – Fintech Galaxy

A self-taught programmer at age 16, John started his career in IT Professional Services at GE in 1986. He founded Open Systems Group in 1989, spun off Para-Docs in 2001, and is now employed with Red Hat helping enterprise financials respond to the digital disruption wrought by Fintech.

Naimish Shah – EmiratesNBD

Naimish Shah is the Head of Innovation & Fintech at Emirates NBD. With over 20 years of experience in the Banking industry within the region, Naimish deals with Emerging Technologies for the banking industry looking into the future and leads in the space of  Blockchain thought leadership in the region.. He is also a Mentor…

Osama Al Rahma – Al Farden Exchange

Mr. Osama Al Rahma is a Director in Al Fardan Group and CEO of Al Fardan Exchange L.L.C. Al Fardan Group, a renowned family business in the Gulf region and active in the Forex Remittance business, Jewels and precious stones, Real Estate Development and Financial Services. Al Fardan Exchange is now on its 44 years…

Saleem Ahmed – Sharjah Islamic Bank

Saleem has more than 24 years of experience in Information technology with deep financial domain expertise and has worked earlier with Samba in Saudi Arabia and recently with First Gulf bank in Abu Dhabi and has been instrumental in bringing to fruition several Global award winning initiatives in these organizations while delivering core business value.…

Wai Kwok – Abu Dhabi Global Markets

Mr Kwok joined the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) in June 2015. He heads up the Capital Markets division responsible for admission and supervision of financial market infrastructures and capital market intermediaries. The division also regulates the offering of securities, collective investments schemes. Mr Kwok also spearheads FSRA’s strategy…

Alastair Lukies – Motive Partners

Alastair Lukies CBE is a UK businessman and entrepreneur best known as a pioneer and champion for the UK’s global FinTech industry. He founded Monitise in 2003. Three years later, Monitise was recognized as a ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum and in June 2007 Alastair led the company’s demerger from Morse and listing…