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Şakir Yavuz is the President of Perfect Timing Holding.
Şakir Yavuz was elected by the shareholders of perfect timing holding as the 3rd President of Perfect Timing Holding in 2006.
Perfect Timing Holding has a team of experts from the areas of the economy, law, banking, media, and different technology, the founder shareholders of perfect timing holding Inc. have been active since 1954. The company started in the area of international investment. The American, Asian and European partners first invested in their domestic markets in real estate, commodity traders, and various industry participation areas.
Since the 1980s, they have also developed a highly successful investment strategy in the areas of media, industry and banking participation, as in the hotel business. Also, the basis for a major art collection was laid at this time.
The success of the company also developed the field of consulting, as other companies increasingly on the experience of the team also put investors on an advisory level.
Under the leadership of Şakir Yavuz, the company has further expanded into sectors like energy, consulting, media and many others.
This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector.
Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent.
Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts.
The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances.

Derron is the Founding Managing Partner & Co-CIO of Halfort Merritt LLP, an equity research company with an incubator fund employing value, growth and active trading strategies in the pursuit of generating risk-adjusted alpha. Derron also works as an active broker dealing in the private markets, often playing a pivotal role in the financing process for early-stage growth companies centered around the Southeast Asian region. He is also experienced in the real estate space where he acted as an executive finance advisor to the development arm of a property investment company operating in the Asia-Pacific. In the VC space, Derron garnered valuable experience in his time as a spring analyst at 6 Dimensions Capital, a Biotechnology themed venture fund with offices in China and the USA. He was exposed to the major macro-economic shifts in both Chinese and American healthcare, gathering the fundamental knowledge required to evaluate investment prospects for early-stage cutting edge drug discovery companies. The resilient and disciplined quality that defines Derron came largely from his experience in the Singapore Navy. Right after high school, he enlisted in a special-force unit of the Republic of Singapore Navy. Through the progress of his company Halfort Merritt LLP, along with his talented team of analysts, Derron hopes to be instrumental in the development of the Finance Technology Sector by focusing on facilitating efficient allocation of financial resources, generating economies of scale through working on M&As and gathering pools of talented individuals in contributing to this movement. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances

David Strybosch Founder, Director & Partner Handshake. Handshake is a patented security concept that is set to revolutionize the world of digital security. It is positioning itself to become the preferred method of collecting card payments for all mobile payment solutions and wallets and thus connecting and allowing payments to all global businesses regardless of which wallet or mobile solution is used. He has a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning, Financial Planning, and services from Deakin University. He is also the Founder, Director & Partner of ‘ipRenewal’ and the Director & Owner MyLife (Managing your Lifestyle). Amongst his many achievements, one is Chairman’s Club Award 2015,2017. Infocus’s prestigious Chairman’s Club is a small community of elite Financial Advisers and Business Owners who excel amongst their peers for business acumen, technical skill, practical knowledge application, ambition and ability to deliver outstanding results. David is proficient at Wealth Management, Investments, Retirement Planning. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre.This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances

David Smith is the General Manager Project Finance, Syndication & Real Estate at Alinma Bank. David has achieved over 17 years of experience in the KSA and GCC markets. He is a financial executive with broad experience in all aspects of accounting, auditing, and financial management. David also has significant experience in originating and executing project/ structured finance advisory and debt negotiating mandates. Previously working for the Saudi Industrial Development Fund, a government organization responsible for the development of industrial growth/activity activity in the KSA through financial funding. His primary responsibilities included due diligence, financial appraisal, and recommendation of financial support of International joint ventures in the Kingdom in sectors covering Petrochemical, Pharmaceuticals, Steel, Recycling and consumables. David was also responsible for evaluating and developing SIDF’s core sectoral lending policies. David has an Extensive Emerging market experience through projects in Saudi Arabia, the wider GCC, and Europe and significant experience in corporate reconstructions and insolvency in Europe. He also has direct experience with financial consulting and ventures capital. David’s interest is in early-stage startups as well as companies ‘on the bubble’. His specialties and expertise include Project Finance – Structured Finance – Syndications – Real Estate – Debt Restructuring – Shariah Compliant (Islamic) Finance – Emerging Markets – MENA – GCC – Saudi Arabia. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances.

About Christophe Christophe Derdeyn is the Director of Delaware Consulting Asia Pacific, partner in the Delaware International group, a global IT Services & Consulting scale-up. Since 2012 he has been involved in building Delaware in South-East Asia, focusing on back-office automation through core finance ERP implementations and Information management solutions, catering to the manufacturing, oil & gas, food, and insurance industries. Christophe started in IT consulting with a focus on infrastructure followed by IT system implementations. After a successful roll-out of a laboratory quality management system between 2003 and 2005, he became involved in the set-up and optimization of regional shared services. He also led the technical tracks for a large scale Shared Services transformation for a tier-1 FMCG company covering finance, logistics, procurement, and HR. Post the initial Shared Services setup, he has been in charge of a series of IT optimization projects, amongst which accounts-payable optimization, order-to-cash streamlining and automation and adoption of electronic invoicing platforms for direct interaction with suppliers and customers. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at theLe Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances.

About Christoefel Christoefel Champ Chayadi is the key member of the International Expansion team of Silicon Valley-backed Circles.life, Singapore “one of the world’s first digital telcos” in the Asia Pacific region including Indonesia, Taiwan, and Australia. Christoefel is also the Managing Partner of inhandsagency.com, a digital agency that focuses on helping SMEs with their go-to-market digital strategy. Part of their recent success was leading the viral marketing campaigns that drove a coffee brand expansion to 300+ branches within 4 months across Indonesia. His most recent venture soon to be launched, invesbareng.com which is Asia’s first digital liquidity management platform that empowers people to invest together in any private company across the world with a single touch of a phone. Prior to that, he was part of the Strategy & Planning team in Alibaba-owned shopping platform Lazada where he optimized the logistics supply chain and integrated with Alibaba-owned Order Management System. Early in his career as Development Associate in Garena Online, Southeast Asia’s Largest Internet and Mobile Platform (Forbes, 2016), he was the engine behind the 20,000+ cyber cafes acquired in Indonesia and the smooth customer experience in Shopee Mobile early-stage. He was a biotech geek in training who won a research award from the Ministry of Education and Culture back in 2012. Recently, he was selected as ASEAN MENTOR by Temasek Foundation to groom young talent to be the next leaders in the ASEAN region. About FiNext Awards This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances

About Chirag Chirag Sampat is a Senior Executive with 20 years of experience in Financial Services serving various roles in Finance and Global Markets. Chirag is working as the Head of Global Markets and Treasury at Eradah Capital where he is a member of the founding team setting up a new Digital Bank to be licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE. Chirag is responsible for leading all global market initiatives including setup of Global Markets infrastructure, innovative retail and corporate banking products, funds management, Asset and Liability Management and managing relationships with financial institutions. Chirag is also an independent board member for the First Microfinance Bank He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the University of Mumbai, India. Chirag has also worked as the Director of Global Markets and before that as Head of Finance at Emirates Investment Bank where he was responsible for the entire finance function including regulatory reporting, new core banking system implementation, Basel 2 and IFRS compliance. He also served as the Head of Financial Accounting and Controls with ABN AMRO Bank in Dubai. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts.

Benjamin Choo is the Chief Executive Officer of Assetfort Capital Private Limited, an Independent Asset Management firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He also holds the position of Senior VP (South East Asia) of Assetfort Holdings Limited. Assetfort provides advisory and discretionary mandates to high net worth individuals, family offices and institutions. As a Chartered Banker, Ben has over 15 years of experience in the financial services sector, specializing in Wealth Management. Ben’s last position was with Thirdrock Capital as Director, Client Advisor. He also held positions in Citibank Singapore from 2004 to 2018, most recently as Executive Director in the International Personal Bank. Ben graduated from the Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Hons) and holds an International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance. He is also a member of the Singapore Management University – PAVD Round A Investor (RAIN) club. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances.

Balkrishna is a result-oriented finance professional having over 10+ years of experience in core accounts and finance domains spread across varied sectors such as Retail, FMCG, Trading & distributions, BPO, Manufacturing, and Shared Services. He has handled mid to senior-level positions circled around  Finance Business Partnering, Financial Planning & Analysis and Financial Controllership. He positions himself as a data-driven decision-maker with a doable approach that has yielded his various accolades and recognition. He has led several million-dollar projects related to advanced ERP and BI tools implementations and has been instrumental in change management programs targeted to achieve strategic goals. He has a keen interest in learning and implementing advanced technologies such as RPA, AI, Big Data analytics and mobile apps development. Recently, he developed three  mobile apps that are live and  being used in MNCs. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts.

Balaji Ramaswami is the Managing Director of EMPO Technologies DMCC, a Dubai-based Tax Technology company and a Co-Founder of Emtax, GCC’s first home-grown SAAS solution for VAT Automation. As Co-Founder of Emtax, he has been focusing on building a pioneering cloud-based software platform that provides an end-to-end suite of tax compliance solutions for the MSME segments. With over 3 decades of work experience across multiple global and regional corporates in India and the GCC region, he is an experienced Finance Professional with expertise in fin-tech solutions to address operational challenges in regulatory compliance. Before embarking upon his entrepreneurial journey, he served in senior positions in various financial services organizations across India and Oman with a focus on Risk Management and Remediation. He is also a Council Member of Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Councils, a network of industry practitioners and other professionals worldwide. Balaji is qualified in Risk Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India with a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Madras and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. EMTAX, (www.emtaxtech.com) is a scalable and efficient SaaS solution for effective VAT compliance in the GCC region. It’s innovative, out-of-the-box features enable businesses to fulfill their tax compliance obligations in a timely and correct manner using the power of technology. This FiNext Awards & Conference is to be held on the 26th and 27th of February at the Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre. This is the much-awaited conference of the year as it brings together and celebrates the excellence of companies and people in the FinTech sector. Fin-Tech industry needed space for the smartest, innovative, inventive and ambitious people to connect and create, consequently FiNext Awards and Conference were started as a dedicated platform to serve the needs of the Fin-Tech industry in terms of interaction, innovation, networking and showcasing of the talent. Two days of celebration of people who have put their lives in innovating, transforming the way how people transact through technology. FiNext Awards acknowledge people who are bringing the future of finance through their persistent efforts. The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances.