The Founders Peak Podcast

Gaurav Hinduja co-founded axio (formerly Capital Float) in 2013. Under his direction, the company has grown to become India’s leading digital finance company with over 7 million credit customers. As the Managing Director of axio, he continues to drive leadership in the Fintech space through numerous strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Amazon. Gaurav holds an MBA from Stanford Univ...

Wealth manager turned entrepreneur and digitalisation evangelist, Keith Tan’s passion for good coffee and technology kicked off Crown Coffee’s meteoric journey in 2016. Through astute observations, Keith quickly recognised gaps in the labour, service, and quality market that could be enriched by adopting industry-disrupting technology.  Leveraging on robotics, AI and data, Keith started Crown...

Eric Barbier is a serial entrepreneur who has built and scaled multiple payments companies globally. This includes TransferTo (now Thunes and DT One) and Mobile 365 (acquired by SAP). Today, he is the CEO and founder of TripleA, the first cryptocurrency payments gateway to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). TripleA empowers more than 15,000 businesses across 120+ countries t...

Deepti Sanghi is the CEO & co-founder of Kodo, India's fastest-growing corporate card and spend-management platform for startups and scaled businesses. Kodo has raised ~$14M in equity capital from a group of investors led by YC Continuity and Brex. Deepti brings strong domain expertise in India's fintech and financial services ecosystem. Before launching Kodo, she headed Partnerships a...

Jason Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of Partior, the trusted global network for value exchange. He is responsible for steering Partior as it charts its growth strategy to disrupt the payments industry and for formulating strategies for the firm’s expansion and product offerings. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services sector under his belt, Jason is known for...

Ang Xing Xian is the CEO and Co-Founder of CapBay, a leading Supply Chain Finance platform that helps businesses obtain smarter financing. Under his leadership, CapBay has provided more than USD 500 million in digital financing to businesses in Southeast Asia. Xing Xian has extensive experience in management consulting as a management consultant with Accenture Strategy, advising multinational comp...

Derrick Lee is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Accredify. He oversees the entire process of Accredify's new products and features from ideation, to development and release. He is responsible for the firm's technical roadmap, policy, operational processes, and the growth of Accredify's tech team. Derrick began his career in tech at the age of 12, founding a series of mult...

Arvin Singh is the co-founder of hoolah, Southeast Asia’s first Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment provider that empowers consumers to afford the things they want through flexible payment options while helping merchants grow their payment capabilities. With combined experiences in both the corporate and startup world, he currently leads ShopBack’s Partnerships team in scaling its Financial Services...

Yunus Sevimli is the co-founder and CTO of Almond FinTech. His work centres around promoting equitable access to technology across a breadth of fields. Prior to Almond, Yunus held leadership roles in early-stage ventures commercialising cutting-edge medical research, and devised low-tech approaches to poverty alleviation in rural Southeast Asia. He is the author of several patents and scientific p...

Joshua Bao is one of SUNRATE's co-founder and is responsible for driving the sales and marketing strategy of the organisation. Prior to co-founding SUNRATE in 2016, Joshua has more than 16 years of experience in global financial and corporate services. As a co-founder, Joshua had to make countless unpopular decisions that he believed were right. While the majority of those decisions have prove...

Nirav Choksi is the Co-founder and CEO of CredAble, India's largest working capital technology platform that enables more than USD 3BN in working capital and has witnessed 500% year-on-year growth. He co-founded CredAble with the aspiration of building an enterprise that empowers the business ecosystem with a seamless flow of credit. Today, CredAble caters to large, mid-sized, emerging corporates,...

Edmund Ng is a serial entrepreneur, founder of 3 start-ups, one of which grew to $20m valuation in 2 years. A military soldier turned technologist, he has contributed significantly to Singapore’s tech ecosystem, pioneering mainstays like the self-service SAM kiosks and financial and procurement networks behind the scenes. His experience culminates in Doxa Connex, the Collaborative Trade Platform t...

Pratik Gandhi is the Co-Founder and COO at Nium, a leading fintech company that provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment services. As Co-Founder and COO at Nium, Pratik leads the Global Finance, Compliance, Operations & Customer Service teams. Pratik brings over 25 years of leadership experience into Nium, having worked for companies such as A...

Dhruv Arora is the Founder and CEO of Syfe, Asia’s leading digital wealth management platform with a mission to empower people to build their wealth for a better future. Having pursued a career as a trader with a leading investment bank, Dhruv realised that he had a different calling. Having seen the impact of offering wealth management services to high net-worth individuals, Dhruv founded Syfe to...

Debbie Watkins has lived in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Singapore over the past 20 years, and worked in 30 additional countries throughout Africa and Asia. Her focus for this entire period has been technology-enabled inclusive finance - mobile products and services, business and strategy consulting and management - building multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams in a number of c...

Michele Ferrario is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway, the largest digital wealth manager in SEA and MENA. Michele spent half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, as Managing Director at Rocket Intern...

David Brear is the CEO of 11:FS and since his dream of being a sportsperson was crushed (along with the ligaments in his knee!) and he had to get a proper job, he has worked in pretty much every angle of the financial services industry never losing that competitive desire to drive forwards and win. Having pitched, established and run billion-pound transformations for some of the biggest FS compani...

Feng-Yuan Liu is Vice-President of Business Development of Aicadium, Temasek’s AI centre of excellence. Feng-Yuan is a serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur, with a passion for applying data-driven methods and artificial intelligence both in the service of the public good and launching new ventures. He successfully co-founded and exited an early stage Sequoia-backed startup building technology to e...

Naveen Kukreja, one of the most prominent faces of India’s fintech industry, is the Co-founder & CEO of Paisabazaar – the country’s largest marketplace for lending products and free credit score platform. In less than 9 years, Paisabazaar has served over 33 million consumers from 823 cities. Naveen has 2 decades of deep experience in the fintech and financial services markets of Europe and Asi...

Jonathan Levin is Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, where he is regularly called upon to testify for the U.S. Congress and other government hearings on the emerging risks and opportunities in cryptocurrencies. Jonathan is also a mentor for the Techstars Alchemist Blockchain accelerator. Prior to Chainalysis, he was the CEO of Coinometrics, which...

Michael Shaulov is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. He is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He pioneered mobile security in an elite military technological unit (8200) where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor, prior to co-founding Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point. In this talk, Michael s...

Serey Chea is Assistant Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. She is passionate about financial inclusion and women economic empowerment. Achievements under her leadership include the establishment of Credit Bureau Cambodia in 2012 that propelled Cambodia's Ease of Access to Finance to number 7 worldwide in 2017 by the World Bank, the introduction of Bakong, a national backbone payment system...

Phase #0: 15 year intra-preneur, with many firsts in corporate life. Start-up #1: RedPill, pioneered Analytics revolution, exited to IBM Stupidity Gene #2: Crayon Data, go bolder with AI, build a platform - maya.ai . Uppers: sparky daring people, purpose & values-driven journeys: deadly cocktails - of data & intuition; right & left brain; long term persistence & short term impatien...

Sean Lam was the co-founder of Jewel Paymentech which was acquired by Fintech unicorn Advance Intelligence Group in 2022. His passions include imagineering solutions to complex fraud and security problems that impact the whole of society. He previously served as a risk director at the world's leading payment network and prior as a security consultant with a Big 4 accounting firm. Outside of work,...

Jenny Li is a strategy focused and results orientated finance leader, with more than 15 years’ experience in improving financial governance, working in and advising multinational business to high growth start-ups undertaking rapid change and growth. Jenny co-founded AsiaVerify in 2019, a Singapore incorporated regtech company empowering global businesses to verify businesses in Asia, in real time,...