Alok Bhanot is a global technology executive with an impressive background in payments and commerce. With extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor, Bhanot has built innovative products, businesses, and platforms featuring high-caliber teams. Bhanot has operated and built highly scalable systems and services at public companies, such as Verifone, eBay, PayPal, and Visa. He founded Inkiru, which Walmart acquired in June 2013, to address transactional analytics challenges for merchants and financial institutions with a platform that offers real-time predictive intelligence. Bhanot also founded Qopper to provide solutions for operational challenges facing edge devices in commercial environments. Currently, Bhanot is leveraging real-time intelligence and decision-making to transform global supply chains at Cloudleaf, where he serves as the Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer. Bhanot is a former Board Member and Investor at Qopper, previously an Executive Advisor, and has vast experience in payment systems architecture, risk technology, and corporate architecture.