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Mark Rennie Davis

Mark Rennie Davis is a well-known authority on payments and cards. Currently a resident of UAE, he has worked at PwC, IBM and Mastercard Advisors. Mark has an MBA from Open University Business School and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Georgia. He will be teaching a class on card payments.

Timothy Li

Tim is a serial entrepreneur, academician and co-founder of one of the fastest growing fintechs in the world. With a background in JP Morgan and various lending companies, he is considered an authority in lending science and business. His firm, LendAPI, is funded by leading VCs in North America and has a strategic partnership with Nxtgenpay for the Asian market. The two entities have also agreed to establish a lending training lab in the Philippines. Along with his wife, he has endowed the Vi and Timothy Li Laboratory for Industrial Systems Engineering at San Jose State University. Tim is an alumnus of USC(MS, Operations Research Engineering) and SJSU(BS, Industrial and  Systems Engineering) He will be teaching a class on lending.

Sven Seydler

Sven Seydler is an expert in blockchain and crypto coding. He currently teaches at the University of Munster, Germany. A veteran of Intel, he is a master in Solidity Programming and has built platforms himself. Sven will be teaching a class on blockchain.

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Bhaskar Dasgupta

Bhaskar Dasgupta comes up with a distinguished record in compliance, decisioning science, investments and capital markets. He is chairman of the board for a number of investment companies in the UAE and India, besides sitting on the board in advisory positions for other, besides sitting on the board in advisory positions for other.

Past and Present academic positions include: Visiting Fellow in Finance, University of Exeter; Steering Committee Member, Professional Risk Managers International Association, UK;  Hawkamah Institute of Corporate Governance, DIFC, Dubai, UAE. Member of Advisory Board and Visiting Professor, School of Business & Economics, University of Swansea; Executive Fellow and Member of Advisory Board, Essex Business School; Honorary Research Fellow, Member MBA Advisory Committee –Manchester Business School, UK;  STEM Ambassador UK; Teach First UK Executive Coach, UK; Professor of Practise & Executive Fellow, Woxsen University, India. He has been MD/CEO of UK Export Finance, Global Head of Transaction Management Unit at HSBC and Global Head of Strategy and Change at ABN Amro. Bhaskar has PhDs from Brunel University, Kings College and Alliance Manchester Business School. He will teach a class on digital assets.

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Kaustuv Ghosh

A veteran technologist, author and serial entrepreneur, Kaustuv Ghosh is co-founder of the training program alongside Matthew Lamons. He looks after strategy, revenues and concept development as well as fintech programs. He is a veteran technologist and serial entrepreneur with close to thirty years of experience in electronic and digital media, telco value-added services, sustainability, fintech, AI, tech services and blockchain.He has designed and built advanced products in crypto, fintech and sustainability and is an active dealmaker in frontier technologies. Kaustuv has co-authored “A Quick Sip-A Practical Guide to Understanding and Adopting AI” AI with Matthew and Ethan Lamons and is currently writing books on AI and Healthcare, Fintech and Lending.  Kaustuv holds an MSc in Environmental Management from NUS, a PG Diploma in Communications from MICA, India and a BCom degree from Calcutta University.  He teaches an online Fintech program with MYFINT Malaysia and is visiting professor at Shanti Business School, India. He is a member of the National AI Standards Council of Malaysia.

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