A collaborative framework helping Traders , Banks & Corporates manage their digitisation initiatives.
About us
OUR PEOPLE OUR STRENGTH
Traditional Trade & Supply Chain processes struggle with a lack of transparency, visibility & adequate risk-monitoring, in-turn driving a financing gap between capital starved institutions and banks. Covid-19 has accelerated the widening of this inter-entreprise gap amidst a change in deep-tier financing demands from both institutions and banks.
#dltledgers is an integrated digital solution that delivers transparency, visibility & adequate risk-monitoring in real-time is the need of the hour to address financing disequilibria. An extended solution with regulatory participation will close the loop, significantly improving the ability to detect & prevent double financing & other fraudulent activities.
Lack of transparency across parties introduces risks
Lack of adequate risk-monitoring introduces fraud
Delayed or inadequate financing adds costs & delays
Headquartered out of Singapore, a global commodities trading hub, favourable government policy & the concentration of trade flows has enabled us to scale and grow across the APAC region. With a strong sales pipeline well into 2021, we are currently in the process of ramping up our sales, engineering & customer success teams. Lead by an experienced founder and a seasoned leadership team, we are looking to scale and expand globally.Since the first transaction went live in early 2018, over $3 billion worth of live trade finance transactions has been executed via the platform involving 400+ traders, 65+ banks and tertiary partners. A key driver to this success has been our ability to use technology to reduce trade execution times from 45+ days to a matter of hours reducing operational overhead and improving working capital lifecycle by 15-20%.Our clients are mainly large international trading firms, large corporates, supply chain firms and banks. A few of our growing set of key customers are Mitsui, Agrocorp, Shiseido, Wipro Unza, IFFCO and ANZ bank amongst others.
Leadership Team
Samir Neji
Founder & CEO
Samir is a serial technopreneur, with 24 years of experience, predominantly spend on conceptualizing and building startups over the last 20 years. He has lead 4 major startups in his career. #dltledgers is his brainchild, born out of his enthuse to disrupt global cross border trade digitisation. He is tunnel focused on having our platform build efficiency and reduced friction in inter-enterprise transaction.
Farooq Siddiqi
Co-CEO
Senior transaction & corporate banking professional with experience in running global and regional businesses. Deep expertise in emerging markets of Asia and the Middle East. Strong track record in building a new business, driving global level transformation, driving digital strategy, running large P&Ls, managing big-ticket investment budgets, and leading large sales & product teams. Core skills include product sales, product, people, and risk management. relationship building.
Nikhil Joshi
Chief Operating Officer
Nikhil has worked in Finance for 20 years, including 15 years in investment banking, across London and Singapore. His interest lies in the use of technology to complement wholesale banking and related markets. Away from work he is a keen singer and musician.
James Green
Chief Marketing Officer
James is a specialist in marketing, sales, and early-stage venture capital. He has founded and (at least partially) exited five companies, including two marketing/creative agencies, two tech startups, and one early-stage investment fund. He is a limited partner in Singapore-based VC, Investigate, has a private portfolio of 30+ angel investments, and is ultimately responsible for dltledgers’ go-to-market strategy.
Shine Xavier
Global VP - Engineering and Platform Technology
Global Technology and platform engineering, He leads our global engineering with complete responsibility for our development centers and labs in Singapore & India; He had been working in Fintech & Digital transformation platforms for more than 22 years. As a technology leader, he has contributed heavily to the open-source world in AI/ML/Blockchain/Mobility and IoT. He is a hands-on Architect with complete ownership of Platform technical architecture, road map delivery, product development, and continuous innovation. A Thought Leader, and Author in Systems Design & Architecture, he speaks and writes in several forums on interesting FINTECH topics
Vishal G.
Chief Financial Officer
International Finance Career of 16+ years in leading finance teams and controlling operations. Euro-Asian M.B.A. from Premier Institutes and Singapore Chartered Accountant.Extensive expertise in Business Partnering, Managing Risks and regularly Delivering Results in sales, marketing, manufacturing, services and multinational HQ domains.
Atul Patel
Co-founder, VP
Jeremy Kua
Head of FI Relationships
13 years of Experienced Business Development Manager in the financial services industry. Skilled in Origination, Trade Structuring, and Bespoke Financial Solutions. Strong sales professional with a BA focused in Economics from Boston University.
Jos Mathew
Managing Director, MENA
Vinod Bang
Vice President – Sales Adoption
Vinod is a seasoned leader who built many businesses over the last 15+ years – working & living across Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Malaysia & Singapore. He is passionate about helping organizations re-thinking business models in the new decade.
Vinayak Habbu
Customer Success Director
Vinayak is an engineer with 15 years of working in technology consulting. He has led and managed several SaaS and On-premise projects. As a trusted advisor, he helps business derive value and improve efficiency by using technology.
Shahazeen Shaheer
Director Of Digital Marketing
A standing example of young thought leaders in the startup space , With over 6 years in the banking industry, Shahazeen is a young and energetic leader who makes up for his lack of experience with his tangible results in the marketing space . As an early part of the dltledgers team he has kept the dltledgers brand alive globally. He is passionate about constantly learning and exploring new and innovative ways to design, structure and drive marketing initiatives for the organization.
Raji Iyengar
Managing Director, India & South Asia
Arun Antony
Platform Engineering & Projects leader
Leads our entire COE teams in engineering and executes on our Roadmap. A strong FINTECH engineering analyst, Arun has more than 15+ Years in Software Engineering, Product Mgt, Lead Analyst, PMO, and Product Manager. Product engineering and architecture with various technologies and platforms with a strong track record in AI/ML/IOT/Blockchain. He leads our Projects across our COE and builds innovative frameworks from cross functional teams. He is currently running several initiatives internally for building agility and innovation into everything we do.
Gina Sara Mohamed
Head of Operations
Gina leads the Trade Operations and Platform Adoption Team at #dltledgers. She possesses more than 5 years of handling responsibilities in Corporate & Trade Finance. Having experienced challenges at various phases of trade from the customer side of Trade Finance, the blockchain technology completely floored her by the sheer ease and transparency it offers.
As the new lead in the fast-paced tech environment, her goal is not just to simply assist the business to comply with trade and customs regulations, but to utilize automation through systems, tools, and processes to scale with company growth at a global level.
Our Panel of Mentors
Choo Chek Siew
Choo Chek Siew is the Group Chief Financial Officer at ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited, which leads the smart city’s public transport framework in Singapore. He was awarded the “Best CFO in Singapore” and is on the boards of several organisations. A finance leader with 40 years of experience in top finance roles in govt and major banking institutions (DBS, CITI, UBZ, OCBC). Choo is a keen technology enthusiast and is an active mentor of our blockchain initiatives.
Simon Dale
Simon has led several impactful technology and business model innovations in large corporates across Asia pacific and Europe. He is a thought-leader and have consistently identified and led the shift in technology. He continues to mentor initiatives, which are promising, unique and can be the next billion dollar tech companies from Asia. Simon advises dltledgers and supports our idea-generation and GTM efforts, for real life enterprise applications.
Abu Dhabi.
United Arab Emirates.
Ranjan Raj
Ranjan Raj
Japan
MENA
Abu Dhabi.
United Arab Emirates.
Hong Kong - Partner
Thailand
