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CA Dr. Harsh Patel is the Founder and Global CEO of Water and Shark. He has maneuvered the company across different countries since 2012 and has paved the way for its establishment in India, USA, UK, Singapore, Canada, and the UAE. Proficient in Tax, Auditing, Corporate Compliance, Real Estate Transaction Advisory, Start-Up Venturing, and Strategic Advisory, he has created the ideal platform via the company for several CAs, CPAs and professional firms to meet at one place and expand on a global level.

Talal Mahmud, CAMS is a Trade Finance, Financial Crime Compliance, and Operational Risk subject matter expert (SME). In a 20 years banking career, with two major international banks spanning 3 continents, he has a unique combination of experience working at the highest levels of Relationship Management, Sales, Risk, Compliance, and Product Management Detailed Background Talal has 20 years of proven track record spanning almost all areas of banking especially risk management including financial crime compliance, operational risk, credit risk, and business process re-engineering, delivering the same in various markets and roles. He started his banking career with Citibank and moved to Standard Chartered (SCB) after three years and stayed with them for almost 17 years. The combination of operations, client facing, product and risk (managing the two most critical risks in banking – Financial Crime Compliance  and Operational Risk) experience along with an international exposure provides him the necessary skill set to provide advice and consultancy to manage enterprise risk and help deliver on new business, process, and governance change management initiatives. Some of the key roles he has been in while with SCB include: Head of Operational Risk for Transaction Banking and Commodities (both derivatives and physical business), in a global role while based in Singapore (2010-2014). Also Acting Head of Operational Risk for Corporate Finance & Principal Finance (2012-2013) Head of Business Conduct for Transaction Banking, in a global role while based in Singapore, working on all business and financial crime compliance re-engineering projects (2014-2015) Regional Head of Financial Crime Compliance Advisory for Trade Finance (2015-2019) and also covered Financial Markets, Corporate Finance, Cash, and Securities (2018-2019) Head of Product Management for UAE and Regional Head for Trade Finance Products for MENA (2004-2007)

Nathan McFarlane is the Founder and CEO of Overseas Filipino specific financial advisory firm Filpera. He also is a Director of a Debt Management Firm and Financial Services Marketing Company based in Dubai. He has been working as a financial adviser in the Middle East for over 5 years and for the past 3 years specifically with the Overseas Filipino Market. Nathan aims to make his company Filpera the go-to place for Overseas Filipino finance across the Middle East and Asia.

Ritu Marya is the Editor- in- Chief for Entrepreneur India-Asia-Pacific and Franchise India Media, a group company of Franchise India Holdings Limited. She is the Group Editor and leads the editorial desk which comprises business magazines including Entrepreneur, The Franchising World and Retailer together with the Digital media arm of Entrepreneur.com, Franchiseindia.com, wellnessindia.com, indianretailer.com and restaurantindia.in.

Ismail is from London, UK. He spent the early years of his career working within the IT sector as an administrator for global PR, media, technology, financial and recruitment companies. Having left the UK in early 2011 to begin his life within a new sector, hospitality with the focus of new venue openings. In early 2013, having built-up an extremely strong network within the local community, Ismail decided to start his own consultancy, Lambert & Co.

Ksenia is the Founder and Owner of the Financial Affiliate platform Leadgid.eu. Born in Estonia, Ksenia is one of the few female leaders in Fintech community in Russia. She started her business in 2012 and in 2013 she gained the title of the Best Young Entrepreneur.
Ksenia is also the founder of The International Nutra Affiliate Platform Webvork, investor and co-owner of several Fintech-startups. Ksenia is the chairman of FinAdTech – an International Affiliate Marketing conference in the Financial segment.

Nikhil is an experienced entrepreneur and investor with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services and technology industry. He is a seed investor, and Director, Ocrolus East. Previously he was Founder & CEO of InstaPaisa (acquired by Incred Finance in 2015), Managing Director of Rocket Internet India, and a Consultant with Bain & Co, Chicago. Nikhil has an MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, MS Computer Science from University of Southern California(USC), and BTech from Delhi College of Engineering.

A guy who grew up in the country, travelled the world, studied a lot, structured complex financial products at a young age, learnt to fly, climbed a mountain, lead a diverse team, built partnerships for a major bank and thrived on Wall St through the worst financial crisis in our life time. With over twenty years’ experience in financial markets he is known and recognized for high quality customised advice to Australian, US and Canadian partners across a broad range of investment styles (global mandates across asset classes). An innovator who is adept to changes in market conditions and the needs of his clients. A relationship builder with investment partners, technology partners, key internal stakeholders and senior management of the top listed companies in Australia. A demonstrated strategic thinker, having authored a strategic paper for the ASX, now pioneering distribution via the digital channel for funds, advisers and public companies. He has a vision for addressing the problem of user engagement in wealth management. He is vocal about the solution as an industry response in the best interest of their members and it is on the company website for all to see.

Stock broker, Investor, Chief Technical Analyst & Entrepreneur who Rose against ALL ODDS

Kaushlendra Singh Sengar is a renowned name today in the Indian stock broking industry today, with his years of endeavor in providing stock market knowledge, insight, training and technical analysis through his different professional and creatively thought out ventures.

For Deborah, entrepreneurship is about brilliant people creating value by solving meaningful problems. With a passion for understanding what makes people tick, she’s currently researching and writing a book on the impact of technology and the innovators using it as a force for good.

Raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Deborah has experience working across the GCC and other emerging markets. She has a successful track record in identifying high-potential leaders and entrepreneurs, as well as those that are red-flags. Deborah systemised the methodology to help investors de-risk and optimise investments in early-stage and high-growth companies (AMANI™). The most notable example of a company with ‘red-flags’ was Theranos – pre-scandal.