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Pitch Books enables companies to present/showcase themselves in the best possible way. They represent valuable and detailed marketing material to prove why they should be considered amongst the wide variety of financing and other sources of capital.

Water and Shark is a global multi-disciplinary firm of Chartered Accountants, CPAs, Legal and Other Consulting Firms. They provide Tax & Regulatory, Assurance, Transaction Advisory and Business Advisory Services across the globe.

Water and Shark excel in advising global clients on a wide range of issues concerning accountancy and legal advisory segments overcoming any geographical barriers. With their presence in India, USA, UK, Canada, Singapore & UAE they are able to utilize international resources to help clients succeed wherever they operate. Water and Shark and all its member firms offer a powerful range of services and industry expertise to meet client needs – around the globe, around the clock

Eazy Financial Services B.S.C. (Closed) is an Ancillary Service Provider, Licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain. Eazy is a Bahraini Fintech Company focusing on providing Biometric technologies and innovative solutions. Eazy preserves the first of its kind Biometric Payment Network facilitating transactions based on biometrics.

Maxonrow is a blockchain network ecosystem with its headquarter in Singapore. The company is comprised of dreamers, doers, visionaries, and futurists who want to tackle today’s challenges with tomorrow’s technology.

The company has a team of over 100 professionals working around the globe to ensure that blockchain technology helps people, organizations and countries, in a secure, efficient and decentralized way.
Maxonrow is developing the next generation blockchain network that allows the tokenization of real assets in an efficient, secure, decentralized system. Their cutting edge platform allows companies to tokenize both digital and tangible assets with verified KYC and AML on-chain.

MoneyBoxx Finance Limited is an RBI registered Non-Bank Finance Company (NBFC), providing business loans to aspiring microenterprises through its omnichannel business model. The company headquarters is in Mumbai with its operations in tier II and tier III cities in India. Moneyboxx operates through its branches providing business loans in the ticket size of INR 50k to INR 500k.

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.