Mr Bryan Stirewalt joined the DFSA in 2008 and has served as a Managing Director of the Supervision Division since 2010.The Supervision Division includes prudential and conduct-oriented oversight of a variety of financial service providers, including commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, wealth managers, and a variety of advisory services. The Supervision Division also oversees…
Chris joined Abu Dhabi Finance in 2009 and is responsible for overall strategy execution, leadership and management at Abu Dhabi Finance.Chris is an experienced Chartered Accountant with local and international financial services experience, having spent 7 years in the UAE, and with two decades diverse industry experience across the retail, commercial, and corporate banking and…
Dan Doney is the CEO of Securrency, Inc, a RegTech/FinTech company that democratizes access to capital markets. Securrencys 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…
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.…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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.…