THE TALLIERS

We are pioneers in global trade and blockchain

Our founders are adventurous, open minded digital innovators, who are trade finance and fintech experts with deep knowledge and understanding of customer pain points. We have prior experience in successful startup ventures in this field, enterprise experience by providing strategic thought leadership with global banks and software companies, as well as innovation expertise in driving the transformation of the trade finance and payments industry. Our team has worked together successfully to build ecosystems in emerging high growth markets.

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Aditya Menon

CEO

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Steve Tseng

CPO

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Narasimha Suryanarayana

CTO

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Prasad Krishnamurthy

CDO

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Veerendra Kumar

VP Engineering

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Sam Aravazhinavalar

Lead Blockchain Architect

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Raghav Srikanta

Principal Architect

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Jacqueline Tseng

Experience Designer

OUR ADVISORS

Revered and Trusted in the Industry

Ajay

NEW DELHI, INDIA

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Ajay Agrawal

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Ajay Agrawal is co-founder and CEO at SirionLabs. Ajay has been a securities lawyer and a product visionary in the strategic legal technology space for more than 20 years. Ajay founded and led UnitedLex Corporation in 2006 and led the company through a period of explosive, profitable growth creating more than $100mn in enterprise value in 4 years. Between 1994 and 2006, Ajay was a securities law expert in some of the world’s leading firms and investment banks and structured complex securities offerings of structured Tier I capital, convertible and exchangeable securities, hybrid debt instruments, asset-backed securities and trust preferred securities. In addition to his role at SirionLabs, Ajay serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University. Ajay received an LL.M. from Columbia University and holds an LL.B. from Trinity College, Cambridge and a B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University.

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Ajay Agrawal

New Delhi, India

Carol

COLORADO, USA

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Carol Realini

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Carol Realini is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, CEO and expert in financial service innovation. She has created successful companies in multiple new markets including early executive at network computer leader Legato, founder and CEO at banking customer relationship management leader Chordiant Software, founder and CEO of mobile payments pioneer Obopay, co- founder and board member of faster payments innovator Omney (acquired by Mastercard). She has been recognized as a Top 50 Women in Technology by Corporate Board Member magazine. Her non-profit board experience includes GlobalGiving, Search for Common Ground, and Global Business School Network. Realini received her BA with honors in Mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz and her MS in Computer Science from California State University, San Jose. She is the co-author of Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid and Bankrupt.

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Carol Realini

Colorado, USA

Brett King

NEW YORK, USA

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Brett King

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We are honored and proud to have as our Advisor, Brett King – a Speaker, Startup Founder, Bestselling Author, Radio Host, TV Commentator, and Futurist.

Brett King is the CEO and Founder of Moven, a $200m mobile bank start-up, with the world’s first smart bank account. Moven’s app is used around the globe with over a million users.

Brett’s radio show, Breaking Banks, began in May 2013. It was the first global show and podcast on FinTech and has grown to be the most popular with an audience in 177 countries/ 6.5 million listeners. His books on Banking are bestsellers, the most recent one being Bank 4.0 Banking everywhere, never at a Bank.

Brett focuses on how technology is disrupting business, changing behaviour and influencing society. He advised the Obama administration on the Future of Banking and has spoken on the future in 50 countries in the last 3 years. He has fronted TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, The Economist, SIBOS, appears as a commentator on CNBC, and regularly on the likes of BBC, ABC, FOX, and Bloomberg.

in his spare time enjoys flying as an IFR pilot, scuba diving, motor racing, gaming (mostly FPS) and Sci-Fi. As he says – ‘One day soon he may get a full nights sleep’!

Brett King

Brett King

New York, USA

Bhaskar

NEW YORK, USA

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Bhaskar Menon

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Bhaskar Menon was the Group Chief Executive Officer of e4e Inc. Earlier Mr. Menon was an Independent Consultant and Owner of Circa Advisors LLC and was a Venture Partner of New Enterprise Associates and NEA IUV, L.P., was an Operating Partner of FlatWorld Capital LLC. Mr. Menon was a co-founding team member and served as the President of MphasiS until 2006. Mr. Menon has over 18 years in International Private Banking and Investment Banking with Citibank and Merrill Lynch. He served as a Director on the Board of e4e, Inc., APAC Customer Services Inc., ScioInspire Inc., K-Two Technologies and Semantify Inc. He served as a Member of the Advisory Group at Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited.

Bhaskar

Bhaskar Menon

New York, USA

Roberto Mancone

DUBLIN, IRELAND

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Roberto Mancone

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Roberto Mancone is the CEO & Founder of WhatIf, an independent Consultant Firm, engaged in Digital projects with Incumbents, Fintechs and Technology Firms for the development of new Client Centric Business and Operating Models, based on Exponential Technology such as AI, Blockchain and IOT.

Senior Advisor of Oliver Wyman and Professor of Blockchain Certificate at the Master in Digital Entrepreneurship (MADE) at H-Farm.

International experience matured for 29 years in the USA and Europe in corporate and retail banking, in Chicago, New York, London, Milan, Frankfurt, Dublin. Executive experience in leading banks through digital transformation. 

Previous Executive positions in Fintechs as COO and General Manager of we.trade Innovation DAC, the Joint Venture owned by 12 European Banks (Caixa, DB, Erste, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Nordea, Rabobank, Santander, SogGen, UBS, Unicredit), licensing the innovative Trade Platform based on Blockchain in 14 countries in Europe. 

Former Executive positions in Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt as Global Head of Disruptive Technologies & Solutions and previously Global Head of Commercial Banking Products and locally in Italy as Country Head of Private and Business Banking. 

Additional experience matured in BNL – BNP Paribas Group in Italy and abroad as Head of Corporate Banking for 7 years in the United States (Chicago and New York) and 3 years in the UK (London). 

Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milano and Master of Science in Economics, Statistic Econometric from the University Federico II of Napoli. MIT Sloan School of Management Certificate in IoT.

International speaker at international conferences, contributor journalist at EconomyUp, Board of Director Member at Italy4Blockchain and Investor and Senior Advisor in several Startups.

Roberto Mancone

Roberto Mancone

Dublin, Ireland

Mahesh

BANGALORE, INDIA

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Mahesh Jain

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Mahesh Jain is the co-founder and Chairman of the Integra group of companies. He has led Integra’s efforts in building award winning products and services in multiple market segments ranging from banking, imaging, mobile technologies, education and financial inclusion. He is currently focused on building technologies to bridge the accessibility gap with several initiatives in financial inclusion and e-Governance. He has also been associated with education, carbon, and green plantation societies for many years and is the co-founder of a few organizations in this space.

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Mahesh Jain

Bangalore, India

Donald Chapman

BOSTON, USA

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Donald Chapman

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Donald Chapman is an experienced executive and entrepreneur, who specializes in creating partnerships amongst digital innovators across the global banking, ecommerce and retail industries. As a financial services technology professional with over 15 years of experience across business development, product and strategy, he is passionate about collaboration and the formation of mutually beneficial relationships. Nothing beats a win-win-win situation.

Mr. Chapman has developed and launched domestic U.S. and global technology platforms for companies ranging in size from startup to Fortune 100. He graduated from Providence College where he was a Division 1 NCAA lacrosse player and member of the Dean’s List. He earned his MBA with an Investments Concentration from Babson College’s F.W. Olin School of Business – ranked #1 in Entrepreneurship by U.S. News and World Report.

Donald Chapman

Donald Chapman

Boston, USA

Venu

BANGALORE, INDIA

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Venu Parameshwar

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Venu Parameshwar served as Chief Financial Officer at Dunia Finance LLC. Venu has over 25 years of experience in banking and finance in a wide range of functions and countries including India, Australia, Korea, UAE and the UK. His previous roles include Portfolio Risk Manager of Citibank Australia, Treasurer of Citibank Korea, CFO and Treasurer of Citibank India, Regional Consumer Treasurer of Citibank CEEMEA and CFO of Citibank Turkey, Middle East and Africa. His last assignment was the Consumer CFO for the EMEA region for Citigroup where he was responsible for the finance function across Citigroup’s consumer business in Western and Central Europe and the Middle East. Venu is an Economics Graduate from the University of Bombay and has completed his Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

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Venu Parameshwar

Bangalore, India

Johnson

SINGAPORE

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Johnson Lau

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Mr. Johnson Lau has spent more than 30 years in the banking industry in Asia, including banks such as Citibank, ABN Amro, RBS, China CITIC Bank International and Mizuho. Mr Lau served as the Senior Vice President in the Global Transaction Services (GTS) Asia Pacific division at ABN-AMRO Bank N.V. and RBS, where he managed channels and products for Asia Pacific covering 15 countries. Mr. Lau was the General Manager for GTS for China CITIC Bank International; he was also a Director of Sales for GTS at Mizuho Bank in Hong Kong. 

Mr. Lau also has with him over 19 years of banking experience from Citibank where he was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President in Citibank Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. As CIO, Mr. Lau was responsible for the establishment of Information Technology infrastructure for innovative products covering both Corporate and Consumer banking businesses. Mr. Lau also served as an Executive Vice President, Solution Management of BeXcom Pte Ltd which was an eCommerce company for B2B exchange for supply chain services.

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Johnson Lau

Singapore

Sanjay Vatsa

USA

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Sanjay Vatsa

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Sanjay has more than 25 years of experience in senior ‘C’ level global leadership positions having served as Managing Director at Citi, BlackRock, Merrill Lynch, etc. He has been instrumental in modernization & transformation of financial firms and has realized value of over ~$3bn through various initiatives. 

Sanjay is a global expert and has executed innovative solutions in areas of data and analytics, end to end investment trade life cycle, operational risk, business transformation and has managed and set up Shared Services globally.  Sanjay has led transformation & disruption through innovation, leveraging leading edge solutions & technology that address business issues and in evolving / creating new business model & solutions.  Sanjay throughout his career has focused on bringing in disruptive models and technologies to enhance organization value.

He has been a key player in transforming the industry and has been Chairman of multiple industry committees such as Bond Market Association, Asset Management Forum, Securities Industry Association, etc. transforming financial infrastructure and reducing risk on trade. Sanjay, as Chairman of the Advisory Board, was instrumental in building OMGEO– a transformative financial industry utility. 

He is currently focused on creating an eco-system for startup and early stage revenue companies to realize their potential by scaling and growing.  Sanjay is currently a Partner and Mentor of Princeton Growth Accelerator (PGA) and a partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Global Accelerated Venture (GAV).  He is a strategic advisor to Global TIE Women fostering that is Women Entrepreneurship on a global basis across 90 locations – Embrace, Engage and Empower.   Sanjay is an active angel investor / advisor to firms and late state startups where he provides innovative and disruptive solutions in health care, fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain. 

Sanjay Vatsa

Sanjay Vatsa

USA

Alberto

USA

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Alberto Garda

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Alberto Garda is an Experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He was previously founder of SoftAmericas Inc. a Fintech for Assets tokenization.  He is skilled in Business Process, Requirements Analysis, Banking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and IT Strategy. Alberto is a Systems Engineer, who is well versed with new technologies and innovation. Alberto was CTO for ABN AMRO Bank in Latin America. As COO he also led the transformation for ABN AMBRO BANK, Uruguay. In 1984 Alberto became CEO of Datamatic and led the transformation of the company to a software house. It was then that he built the first banking software package that includes PC solutions. By 1987, Alberto went on to create Top System which was a spin off Datamatic, a software company vertically created for the banking industry. He also held position as COO for ACAAC Uruguay Credit Union from 1992 to 1995 wherein he was involved in the transformation of the Credit Union into a Bank. Alberto has been a keynote speaker at many Technology-Banking conferences around the globe, talking about the banking for the future, since 1992 up to today.

Alberto

Alberto Garda

USA

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