Building the Future of Open Money

Prajit Nanu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

Based in the company’s headquarters in Singapore, Prajit is responsible for expanding the company’s geographic reach and establishing Nium as a leading financial technology platform all over the world. He oversees not just Nium’s B2B arm of the business, but also its B2C platform InstaReM, powered by Nium’s technology. Prajit is also responsible for driving innovation in key markets that Nium has offices in, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Prior to co-founding InstaReM and eventually Nium, Prajit held leadership positions in various global organizations. He was the Global Sales Director at TMF Group, a multinational professional services firm headquartered in Amsterdam, and was the Vice President of Sales and Account Management at WNS Global Services, a business process management company.

Prajit holds a Bachelor’s in Commerce & Economics from the University of Mumbai.

Michael is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

As Chief Business Officer, Michael is responsible for expanding the company’s geographic reach and establishing Nium as a financial technology leader in new markets beyond Asia. Based in the US, he drives Nium’s business strategy, sales, and retail and institutional partnerships to transform the way remittance is conducted. He is also responsible for monitoring capital requirements to ensure that Nium’s global offices are compliant in local markets.

Michael brings with him over 15 years of experience in the OTC derivatives, spot FX, and financial services industries. Prior to Nium, Michael was a Director at Gain Capital Forex.com Australia, where he managed all aspects of the company’s Australian entity from licensing and product implementation phases, through to live operations. Michael also led Gain Capital’s Operations and Compliance Teams in the UK and US in his decade at the company. Before that, he was at the Wall Street Technology Association where he spearheaded their Vendor Affiliate Program, enabling vendors to directly meet with clients which provided them opportunities to market their products and services.

Michael graduated from Monmouth University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Pratik is the Chief Operating Officer of Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Pratik is responsible for the Finance, Legal, Operations & Customer Service functions.  He drives focus on Nium’s financial and legal requirements across all global markets, and also leads the Operations and Customer Service teams, thereby guiding Nium’s efforts to deliver the promise of offering great services and experiences through its customer service centers and representatives.

Pratik brings over 25 years of leadership experience into Nium, having worked for companies such as Arthur Andersen, Xerox, PepsiCo and Telstra before specializing in banking in the last 15 years. Prior to joining Nium’s consumer and SME arm InstaReM in 2016, Pratik was Chief Financial Officer at Fullerton India Credit, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. He was also the Chief Finance Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, and the Regional Chief Finance Officer for Consumer Finance Business at Citibank.

Pratik graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) with Finance from the Shri Ram College of Commerce. He is also a Chartered Accountant and a certified Company Secretary.

Rajesh is the Chief Product Officer of Nium, a global fintech infrastructure platform that is redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders.

In his role, Rajesh is responsible for end-to-end product management for both direct to consumers and SME services under the InstaReM brand, and the enterprise platform for other clients to integrate and build upon. In addition, he leads product marketing and data analytics.

Rajesh brings extensive experience in the financial technology sector to Nium, having helmed global product marketing and technology roles in many leading fintech companies from when they were in start-up phase. Prior to his role at Nium, Rajesh was the Head of Product Management at Southeast Asia’s leading super app Grab’s payment arm GrabPay. Before that, he spent over a decade in PayPal where he held multiple senior roles driving consumer and business engagement in Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the US.

Rajesh graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering, specializing in Computer Engineering, from the University of Pune.

Frederick is the Chief Revenue Officer at Nium, a global financial infrastructure platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders.

In his role, Frederick leads Nium’s global enterprise sales, marketing, and communications teams that are aimed at expanding the company’s B2B presence and driving growth within the enterprise business. Through these teams, he looks to increase customer acquisition and engagement, as well as further build Nium as a strong financial technology brand that will shape the way the industry talks about banking-as-a-service and further drive awareness and demand.

Frederick has developed big, new revenue streams for start-ups and large companies in payments and e-commerce for nearly 20 years.  His broad, mixed background of analytics and acquisition leadership enables him to break down a goal into clear business objectives and apply the right sales, marketing, and business development plans behind it. He becomes the catalyst of taking a nascent idea and creating a thriving business out of it.  At the early stages of Veem, he built out the Sales, Marketing, Channel, and Partnership departments that ultimately took the company from 100s of customers to over 170K in under four years.  At Western Union he took a stagnant $100M/yr digital business and more than tripled it in four years by building out global Marketing and Business Development teams in three continents, leveraging the latest in digital marketing, introducing new pricing schemes and through co-leadership in overhauling the Western Union brand.  At PayPal and eBay, his focus on cross-border commerce and payments propelled a new growth pillar that generated $100Ms of dollars for both companies through leveraging new analytics that outlined global demand and working cross-functionally to build the needed product, policy and pricing to unlock it.

Frederick loves merging customer insights with business data to uncover the right approach to bring ideas to market.

Nilesh is the Chief Technology Officer at Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

A technologist with over 22 years of experience in building high- quality software for various businesses, Nilesh plays a critical role in leading Nium to be at the forefront of innovation within the financial technology space. In his role, Nilesh oversees the building and maintenance of Nium’s core technology platform that powers digital financial services for both businesses and consumers (via InstaReM), directing his team of technologists to drive massive growth at scale across a completely disruptive payments platform.

Prior to his role at Nium, Nilesh was a technology leader for multiple multi-national companies, including digital agency Dentsu (Isobar) and J.P. Morgan.

Nilesh graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering, specializing in Electronics, from the University of Mumbai. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Advanced Computing.

Laurent is the Chief Compliance Officer of Nium a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

Based in the company’s headquarters in Singapore, Laurent is responsible for leading worldwide regulatory compliance across Nium’s entire product ecosystem, establishing standards, and implementing procedures to ensure the compliance programs meet business priorities and regulatory expectations in all of the jurisdictions in which Nium operates. As part of the management team, Laurent provides strategic counsel on regulatory and enterprise risks so that management can make informed choices within an acceptable compliance and risk profile.

A well-seasoned compliance professional with over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, Laurent has held multiple leadership positions in leading fintech and financial institutions globally. This includes WorldRemit (Group Risk Director), Earthport (Head of Compliance, Americas), WorldPay, and MoneyGram.

Laurent holds an MBA in Global Management from the Thunderbird School of Management from the USA. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Long Island University.

Pratap is the Chief Experience Officer at Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

As Chief Experience Officer, Pratap is responsible for the overall Employee Experience at Nium. He is charged with bringing holistic experiences to Nium and making it an intrinsic part of the company’s strategy and culture.

Pratap comes with over 20 years of experience in People and Organization transformation. His last assignment was with the Maersk Group, where he was heading human resources globally for its services business. He has managed Human Resources across countries including India, China, US, the Philippines and parts of Europe including UK. Pratap has spent half of his career in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, especially manufacturing and sales HR in organizations like Marico & PepsiCo. Later, he shifted to the IT/ITES sector in organizations like Tech Mahindra & General Electric (GE Capital & Genpact).

Pratap recently graduated in Executive Coaching with New Ventures West and is a practicing Coach and also certified in Leadership tools like The Leadership Circle, Hogan, MBTI, Situational Leadership II. He is a certified coach in both Existential Universal Mapper EUM I/O and Enneagram Coaching.

Pratap holds a Master in Personnel Management from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management. He graduated with an LLB from I.L.S. Law College.

Aditi is the Head of Strategy and Investor Relations at Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

With significant experience in core fintech, investment banking, deal execution, and financial planning and analysis, Aditi has established herself and her team as a trusted partner and credible resource to external and internal stakeholders.

In her role, Aditi leads Nium’s global growth strategy and market expansion along with the firm’s fundraising efforts. Her team is instrumental in getting financial, as well as strategic investors on board. They also focus on key deals and business partnerships.

Prior to joining Nium, Aditi was with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong where she worked as an early-stage fintech investor, specializing in payments, wealth-tech, and alternative lending. Before moving to Hong Kong, Aditi was instrumental in setting up Paytm’s Payment Bank in India. She spearheaded financial product creation and roll-out and collaborated with senior leadership across top banks and NBFCs. Her global markets stints with Citi and BAML round out her resume with FX and equities experience.

Aditi received her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in India. She is also an Electronics and Communication Engineer and a massive nerd in general.

Yogesh is the Global Head of Consumer and SME Business at Nium, a fast-growing financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

Based in the company’s headquarters in Singapore, Yogesh is responsible for expanding Nium businesses across its completely disruptive fintech platform targeted at consumers and SMEs, InstaReM. This involves launching innovative products that will break currency borders and add value to a wide range of customer segments, while at the same time leading consumers and businesses to re-look at how they move funds across borders.

Yogesh has led and managed the regional businesses for many well-known companies within the banking, cards and remittances sector, including PayPal, Citibank and MoneyGram. He has spearheaded the digital transformation for some of the global brands in the region, many of which were achieved through the right blend of digital, social and analytical skills – be it acquisition, conversion or experiential engagement.

Yogesh has an MBA from the University of Chicago (Booth School of Business), a Masters in Management Studies, specializing in Marketing from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and initially graduated from the University of Mumbai with a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering.

Rohit is the Global Head of Institution Business at Nium, a fast-growing financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering businesses and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

A seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in fintech, banking, and the financial services industry, Rohit has a deep knowledge of financial services and banking products. In his role, Rohit is responsible for driving Nium’s business strategy, sales, and partnerships with banks and financial institutions to encourage the digitization of financial services by incumbent and new financial players.  This involves launching new products, services, and schemes that will create additional value to the banking industry.

Prior to joining Nium, Rohit held many leadership roles in leading financial institutions and consultancies, demonstrating expertise in developing and implementing growth strategies across Asia, Europe, and emerging markets. He was the Head of Asia for Earthport, Partner for Financial Risk Assessment at KPMG, and also took on numerous regional leadership roles during his twelve-year stint at Deutsche Bank and nine-year stint at Citibank.

Rohit holds an MBA degree from the University of Notre Dame in the USA. He has a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Accounting from St Xavier’s College (India).

Dana Nino leads Growth, Customer Success and Partnerships for Nium, a global financial technology platform that aims to break currency borders by empowering business and consumers to send, spend, and receive funds anywhere in the world in a more convenient and transparent way.

In her role as SVP of Growth, Dana is responsible for the overall growth, retention and success of Nium’s clients via her leadership over Customer Success and the Solutions teams. She is also responsible for building Nium’s channel partnership pipeline to scale the business.

Dana brings with her more than fifteen years of experience in the global payments space and has worked with numerous hyper-growth, early stage companies providing cross-border solutions in the digital space. Having worked in many leading payments companies including PayPal, Cambridge Global Payments, Geoswift, Emergent Payments, and Mastercard, Dana has built an extensive portfolio in leading the development and launch of complex, innovative solutions, and is particularly skilled in Go-To-Market strategies, enterprise sales, account management, partnerships, and innovation.

Having helmed multiple global teams, Dana understands the nuances of working in different markets across the world, including emerging and high-growth markets such as China, India, and Latin America.

Dana is a regular content contributor for leading payments publications and a guest speaker at global payments conferences and events. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.