Khalid Kabeer is a fintech and financial-inclusion executive with more than two decades of leadership in microfinance and MSME lending across Pakistan, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. A Fellow Chartered Accountant who started in audit and textiles, he helped build Kashf Microfinance Bank as its first CFO, ran global operations and then led Vitas Group as CEO, steering it toward a data-centric, digital-first lending model and founding its early-stage fintech investment arm, Vitas Ventures. He is now Chief Product Officer at AdalFi, a Lahore-based credit-scoring and lending-technology company taking instant, pre-approved digital credit to scale.
Ciaran Long is the CEO of a.k.a. Brands Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKA), a portfolio of next-generation fashion brands targeting Gen Z and millennial consumers. A qualified Irish Chartered Accountant with 25-plus years of financial and strategic leadership, Long joined a.k.a. Brands as CFO in 2021, stepped into an interim CEO role in 2023, and was named permanent CEO in January 2025. Under his leadership the company returned to net sales growth with three consecutive quarters of double-digit U.S. sales expansion, repositioning the portfolio around a demand-driven 'test-and-learn' merchandising model and a major bet on physical retail expansion. He previously served as CFO of Samsclub.com and held senior roles across Walmart's e-commerce division, and earlier in his career he co-founded CleanGrow, a water quality sensor technology startup.
Jamil Khatri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Uniqus Consultech Inc., a tech-enabled global consulting firm he launched in September 2022 after nearly 27 years at KPMG. A rare dual-qualified Indian CA and US CPA, Khatri spent decades pioneering accounting advisory in India, scaling KPMG's global Accounting Advisory Services to a $1 billion practice with 4,000+ consultants before striking out on his own. Uniqus has since grown to 700+ professionals, raised $42.5 million across four funding rounds including a $20 million Series C in April 2025, and serves blue-chip clients from HDFC Bank to Grammarly - with an IPO and $500 million revenue target firmly on the horizon.
Vicky Bindra is the CEO of Trulioo, a Vancouver-based global identity verification platform that has raised $478M in funding. A Chartered Accountant with an MBA from MIT Sloan, Bindra brings nearly 30 years of fintech and payments experience from leadership roles at Visa, Mastercard, Citi, GE Capital, Pine Labs, FIS, and Nuvei. Appointed CEO of Trulioo on April 1, 2025, he is now focused on accelerating product innovation, AI integration, and establishing Trulioo as the trusted infrastructure layer for digital identity in the era of agentic commerce.