City, University of London

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Chairman & CEO GMEX Group & SECDEX Group; Partner at Digital Partners Network

London, England, United Kingdom

GMEX Group is a global provider of innovative multi-asset  exchange trading and post trade business solutions and technology ecosystems.

Providing business expertise, the latest technology, connectivity & operational excellence delivered through an aligned partnership driven approach.  We use our extensive market infrastructure experience and expertise to create an appropriate strategic master plan with exchanges, clearing houses, depositories, registries and warehouse receipt platforms.

Our key business solutions enable the creation and operation of cost effective electronic exchanges and post trade infrastructure in multiple asset classes including equities, debt, FX, derivatives, commodities, cryptocurrencies and digital tokenised assets. We operate in both developing and developed markets through the establishment of cohesive business and technology ecosystems. GMEX offers the added benefit of interconnection to multiple partner exchanges, to create global networks of liquidity.

The GMEX Market Advancement Programme (MAP) is all about partnerships and creating an ecosystem with exchanges and post trade market infrastructure operators to deliver centralised, decentralised & hybrid solutions in a collaborative fashion.

GMEX Group is comprised of four main businesses:
-  GMEX Technologies is a provider of multi-asset exchange trading and post trade technology through a unique partnership driven approach. This includes GMEX Fusion – a Hybrid centralised & Blockchain Distributed Ledger technology solution
-  GMEX Innovation conducts R&D of technologically advanced new product solutions for exchange trading, clearing and settlement
-  GMEX Services provides strategic consultancy, implementing services & support for exchanges and market infrastructure providers
-  GMEX Investments makes selective seed and early stage equity and token strategic investment into market infrastructure  and related Fintech companies

GMEX Group

Chairman & CEO

Focus on Agri-technology enabled financial inclusion and social impact.

Africa Agri Tech Limited [United Kingdom]

Director

Tokenise has been established to create a full end-to-end service, from issuance of tokenised securities, trading and brokerage services to settlement and depository. Tokenise Stock Exchange is a fully regulated entity established in Barbados and authorised by the FSC to launch its digital stock exchange. This will democratise the securities industry by tokenising assets that have previously been inaccessible, illiquid or unavailable to a global community of investors and issuers. It will set the global standard for security token issuances, and operate the world’s first dedicated, multi-jurisdictional global single order book. Our broker at Tokenise.io is now taking registration on the platform in readiness for our full launch.
Currently in process of being appointed to the Board.

Tokenise

Non Executive Director - Group Board

The Seychelles-based Securities, Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (“SECDEX”) is a market infrastructure ecosystem located in the Seychelles. It is a multi-asset hybrid exchange combining the benefits of a digital exchange with those of a traditional exchange. It focuses on securities, debt, spot commodities and derivatives contracts in traditional and digital tokenised form.

The Group consists of
- SECDEX Exchange Limited (“SECDEX Exchange”) is authorised and regulated by the Seychelles FSA to operate a securities exchange regulated by the Seychelles FSA with multi-asset capabilities, which include derivatives and digital assets.
- SECDEX Clearing Limited (“SECDEX Clearing”) is authorised and regulated by the Seychelles FSA to operate as the central counterparty (CCP) clearing house regulated by the Seychelles FSA to clear trades executed on SECDEX Exchange.
- SECDEX Depository Limited (“SECDEX Depository”) is authorised and regulated by the Seychelles FSA to operate as the central securities depository and registry regulated by the Seychelles FSA for securities listed on SECDEX Exchange.
- SECDEX Digital Marketplace (“SDC Digital Marketplace” or “SDM” or “SECDEX Marketplace”) will operate as part of SECDEX Digital Custodian Limited as a trading venue to offer a broad range of digital assets which by being in custody can be listed and traded.
- SECDEX Digital Custodian Limited (“SECDEX Custodian” or “SDC”) will operate a digital custodian for a broad range of digital assets (“SDC Digital Custodian”); will operate a crypto lending platform that allows digital assets in custody to be used as collateral for lending (“SDC Linct”); and will operate a peer-to-peer platform (“SDC Investmint”) to raise capital through project funding and invoice factoring to complement the SDC Digital Marketplace, which it will also operate. Subject to regulatory Sandbox approval by the Seychelles FSA.
<a href="http://www.secdex.net">www.secdex.net</a>

SECDEX Group

Chairman

Digital Partners Network (DPN) provides tailored professional services to meet the demands of disruptive businesses, which focus on automation, digitalisation, use of artificial intelligence (AI) and Blockchain technology.

These include specialist legal, finance, compliance, corporate structuring, finance, strategic consulting, technology-enabled digital transformation and potential investment through a digital fund.

DPN consists of 4 major partners:
- Digital Associates Ltd – a Mauritian based law firm providing cross border legal services.
- Digital Corporate Partners Ltd – providing corporate structuring advice, in partnership with licensed entities such as Management Companies/ Corporate Service Providers in multiple jurisdictions
- Digital Finance LLP – providing accounting, finance, strategic advisory and digital transformation services.
- Digital Investment Fund PCC – providing equity investment into leading-edge FinTech firms and Green Finance (equity and debt) investments.

For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.digitalpartnersnetwork.com">www.digitalpartnersnetwork.com</a>
or follow us on Twitter @DigitalPn

Digital Partners Network

Partner

Arabian Bourse is a joint venture between GMEX Group and Arshad Khan to establish the first of its kind fully regulated, crypto asset exchange and custodian in the region that focuses on institutional and retail investors. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has given In-Principal Approval to the Arabian Bourse to establish and operate a full-fledged crypto asset exchange and digital custodian.

Arabian Bourse

Vice Chairman

MAX Markets Group (‘MAX Group’) is an institutional grade, digital asset ecosystem designed to provide a safe regulated marketplace which permits the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, security tokens and other digital assets. This ecosystem will initially include a UK MTF subject to regulatory approval by the FCA, followed by a SWISS OTF subject to regulatory approval by FINMA, then followed by 1 additional Asian based exchange. There will also be a guarantee fund (ensuring contract performance) and a digital custodian in Europe. A key feature will be access to third party digital asset marketplaces and custodians as well as access to fiat banking. This will differentiate MAX Group from other start-up digital asset exchanges and help secure significant additional cross border liquidity.

MAX Group will also look to acquire or obtain other regulated exchange licences or alternatively partner in key strategic locations such as the EU, USA, Middle East and Africa.

MAX Group consists of:

MAX Markets Limited (‘MAX’), which has been incorporated as a UK company and has applied for an MTF license to the UK FCA. MAX will also partner with a Recognised Investment Exchange for listings.
MAX Markets Swiss Limited (‘MAX Swiss’), which will be incorporated as a Swiss company and will apply for an OTF license to FINMA based on a detailed submission. MAX Swiss will partner with an existing Swiss licensed financial services entity to expedite this.
MAX Clearing Limited (‘MAX Clearing’), which will be a UK company with an integrated guarantee fund.
MAX Custodian Limited (‘MAX Custodian’), which will be incorporated in Europe and will apply for a license to operate a digital custodian.

For more information visit <a href="http://www.maxmarkets.net">www.maxmarkets.net</a> or follow us on Twitter @max_markets

MAXDA Markets

Deputy Chairman & Board Director

USAVE is a global solution which is using blockchain technology to revolutionize the entire supply chain industry. Powered by the Ethereum blockchain, our network will track and record data throughout the entire process — from the miner, through the supply chain, and ultimately to the end consumer.
The USAVE platform also utilizes Blockchain technology to make a social and environmental impact. It guarantees a secure and traceable origin of ethical gold as it moves through the supply chain and is held in vaults by owners, giving all parties full transparency and traceability. Using Blockchain technology, the platform is building an open system that will manage and record the chain of value of eco-responsible gold production. From the extraction to an exchange platform; it will ensure a simple and effective solution for all the parties involved through secure data and transactions.
Visit us at <a href="http://www.usave.io">www.usave.io</a>

USAVE

Board Director & Head of Blockchain

MINDEX – The Mauritius based International Derivatives and Commodities Exchange delivering:
-  A trusted access point and spot exchange for ethically sourced gold from Africa
-  A complete ecosystem for gold from the mine to the buyer with tracking using blockchain technology
Forthcoming plans include:
-  A world class refinery and secure physical vault storage based in Mauritius
-  Digitalised gold buying and selling on exchange based firmly on physical assets
-  Highly secure digital and physical gold settlement and custody
-  Digitalised gold borrowing and lending against electronic receipts
-  A derivatives exchange offering derivative contracts on gold, FX and agricultural products
-  An advanced real-time Central Counterparty (CCP) clearing house

MINDEX

Chairman and Interim CEO

FinComEco, the financial and commodities ecosystem – aims to improve food security and economic diversity by providing the most current business and technological solutions tailored for each country whilst providing economic growth opportunities to all participants, from the local smallholder subsistence farmer upwards in a commercial manner. As previously proven with our successful engagement with the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) in Malawi — our solution of leveraging and enhancing the current logistics, warehousing and standards within Africa (and eventually other countries) establishes a fully vitalised agricultural ecosystem efficiently linking supply and demand underpinned by innovative blockchain technology.

FinComEco, fosters financial inclusion with social responsibility by delivering a holistic secure cloud-enabled financial agri-ecosystem in collaboration with local stake-holders, development organisations, governments, research bodies and the private sector.

<a href="http://www.fincomeco.com">www.fincomeco.com</a>

FinComEco

Founder & Co-Chairman

Central Asian Stock Exchange (CASE) and Closed Joint Stock Company Central Depository (CJSCCD) are new financial institutions functioning in the Republic of Tajikistan as a regulated Exchange and Depository respectively. CASE was established in April 2015 as a unique platform for organized securities trading. CASE has partnered with GMEX Technologies Limited (part of the GMEX Group), a leading provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade technology through a business enabled partnership approach.
<a href="http://www.case.com.tj">http://www.case.com.tj</a>

Central Asian Stock Exchange  -  CASE

Non Executive Director of CASE & CJSCCD

ALTX Africa Group Ltd (AAG) is an exchange holding company based in Mauritius that intends to build exchanges across Africa. AAG has established the ALTX East Africa exchange and ALTX Clearing CSD in Uganda. ALTX exchanges offer equity and debt securities and will offer derivatives. ALTX is also planning to offer commodities and currencies. The exchanges will be interconnected, permitting access to securities in the various countries from any of the member exchanges.
<a href="http://www.altxafrica.com">http://www.altxafrica.com</a>

ALTX Africa

Non Executive Director

<a href="http://www.gmex-group.com">www.gmex-group.com</a>
GMEX Innovation Limited (formerly Forum Trading Solutions Limited) is a wholly owned subsidiary of GMEX Group focused on business, product and technology R&D to foster innovation both from within and with our partners within the exchange and market infrastructure space.

GMEX Technologies Limited (GMEX Tech) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GMEX Group. GMEX Tech is provider of multi-asset exchange and post trade technology covering all the market infrastructure value chain. This includes an FCA and CFTC vetted high performance exchange trading system, through to a leading edge matching engine, market surveillance system, several front end trading platform options as well as clearing house systems, depository and registry systems in addition to a warehouse receipts platform.

We are able to provide technology services from upgrades to full implementation on Greenfield sites for other exchanges and trading venues globally. This coupled with our business expertise and our deep domain knowledge of exchanges makes us an ideal partner.

Chairman & Co-Founder of GMEX Innovation Limited & GMEX Technologies Limited (GMEX TECH)

<a href="http://www.misraventures.com">www.misraventures.com</a>
Electronic trading senior level advisory services providing specialist senior level advisory services to exchanges, trading venues and electronic trading firms.

Misra Ventures Ltd

Ensuring efficient and regulated infrastructure for commodity ecosystems: FarmCoin has been designed and funded with the support of strategic blockchain private equity investor Swarm Fund, and has been launched by Food Asset Coin Eco-System (FACES), a joint venture between Block Commodities and FinComEco (a subsidiary of GMEX Group). The venture’s purpose is to sponsor the development of commodity ecosystems, using tokens (from third-parties initially) as currency for transactions.

The primary focus of the token is financial inclusion and social responsibility. Providing resources to the 700 million unbanked farmers in Africa, the project will maximise production by leveraging existing infrastructure; providing security and regulation to eliminate corruption; and reducing costs so that farmers are able to increase output beyond what is needed to feed their families.

<a href="http://www.farm-coin.io">www.farm-coin.io</a>

FarmCoin

Board Director & Co-Founder

The Greengage mission is to bridge traditional financial services with emerging digital assets to provide the premier trusted platform to access the digital and crypto economy. Greengage aims to bring together the tradition of regulated banking and exchange with emerging innovation and blockchain technology. We will provide traditional banking services and solutions for digital asset businesses, as well as facilitate an entry into the emerging blockchain economy for existing regulated financial services firms. The Greengage team has significant and proven expertise in building successful digital enterprises, putting us in pole position to become the first regulated UK Digital Merchant Bank. We will service client requirements for lending and funding through our own bank, as well as a peer-to-peer platform, curating independently valued deals, with the objective to build an investment ecosystem. Our core team comes from the traditional regulated banking world combined with DeepTech expertise, to uniquely operate within the next industrial revolution at the convergence of AI, data science, blockchain, and the evolution of the crypto economy and financial industry.

Greengage

Adviser & Non Executive Director

EQI will provide innovative banking, trading, custody, lending, clearing and settlement services for fiat and cryptocurrencies and will address certain limitations of fiat banking and blockchain technology by modernising, streamlining and simplifying the siloed design of the financial industry infrastructure with a shared fabric of common information. EQI is well positioned to assist with championing blockchain innovation, supporting greater scalability and providing a trusted regulatory ecosystem to bridge interoperability with fiat currencies.

EQI will provide a seamless fusion of new technology and centuries of market experience that ultimately benefits clients with safety, security, lower costs and faster transaction speeds. As a result, clients only need one banking relationship for their entire fiat, cryptocurrency and digital asset ecosystem.

Board Adviser

Avenir Technology is a new participant in Financial Market software, created by a group of industry professionals disillusioned with the high cost and inflexibility of legacy systems. Avenir has developed a suite of innovative and cost effective systems for post-trade processing for exchanges, clearing houses, central securities depositories (CSDs) and share registrars.

Avenir  -  Technology

Non-Executive Director

Global Reporting Company (GRC) provides firms with a solution to address regulatory reporting requirements imposed by G20-led reforms to the derivatives markets with a focus on corporate and buy side client needs. These reforms are being enacted in Europe through the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and a second version of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). GRC provides an effective, low touch solution allowing clients to centralise their reporting obligations in a single point of access, simplifying the process and its monitoring.
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.globalreportingcompany.com">www.globalreportingcompany.com</a>

Global Reporting Company (GRC)

Director & Co-Founder

GDI is a part of the GMEX Group of companies specialising in innovative solutions for Indices and the development of exchange traded products.

Its primary aim is to aid the transition of OTC products to the Exchange traded CCP model. However GDI will also look to offer solutions to other asset classes where the opportunity arises.

Chairman and Co-Founder

Global Markets Exchange Group Limited (GMEX) is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate GMEX’s exchange. GMEX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GMEX Group and operates GMEX Exchange.

GMEX Exchange (GMEX) - focused on operating exchanges across multiple asset classes, initially centred on the move of OTC derivatives to closely aligned on-exchange alternative products (e.g. the GMEX pioneering IRS Futures Contracts) driven by global regulation and the need for capital efficiency.

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Hirander Misra was responsible for co-founding and running the overall business to deliver specialist high speed trading technology solutions. The business was later sold to ICE with the aim of using the technology to run the NYSE.

ALGO Technologies Ltd

CEO and Co-Founding Director

June 2007 - February 2010 - COO, Chi-X Europe Ltd
January 2006 - June 2007 - Head of Product Development (Instinet Europe Ltd & Instinet Chi-X Ltd)
Profile:

A diverse role which involved:
- A major role to develop and grow the business both in terms of revenue and resourcing.
- Client relationship management at senior stakeholder level be it customers or shareholders/ investors.
- Responsibility for the design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's products/ services.
- Functional responsibility for Trading Operations, Technical Operations, Client Connectivity, Legal, Risk and Human Resources in line with the strategic goals of the company.
- Relationship management external trading venues and interaction with regulators to ensure that the company complies with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Directing and supporting project plans ensuring goals and targets are achieved.
- Strategic Product development to create revenue diversification and vendor relationship management.
- Representing the firm at forums, trade shows and with the press as and when required.

Major achievements: Chi-X became the first order driven Pan European MTF with a launch pre MiFID. Lead FSA application completion with approval granted in June 2006 with full production go live on 30th March 2007.  I was the first full time employee of the company playing a major role in scoping out a concept and turning it into reality. The business was syndicated out to leading banks and major electronic trading firms, with a subsequent exit sale to Bats Global Markets (now part of CBOE Global Markets) for USD$365mn.

Chi-X Europe Ltd.

Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder

Instinet Europe

SVP Head of Product Development & Board Director Instinet Chi-X Ltd

1999 - 2002 - Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, Business Analysis Manager
2002 - 2004 - Project Manager
2004 - 2006 - Head of European Exchange Linkages and Post Execution Technology (from H2 2005)