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Semih Muşabak and the other side of the payment
After years examining financial systems at KPMG, Semih Muşabak crossed into running one. At Sipay, his story is about the work behind an effortless payment - and the decision to take responsibility for it.
Rabih Ramadi
Rabih Ramadi is the co-founder and CEO of Avantos, a New York fintech building an AI-native operating system for client onboarding and servicing inside banks, asset managers, and insurers. He spent a career on the inside of financial services - technology strategy at The Bank of New York, leading capital markets as a senior partner at KPMG, then helping build Unqork from the ground floor as a founding team member and chief revenue officer - before deciding the client-service layer of finance needed to be rebuilt around a knowledge graph and AI agents. In early 2026 Avantos raised a $25 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $35 million.
Jamil Khatri
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.
Kevin Liu
Kevin Liu is a licensed CPA and co-founder of Numeral, the AI-native sales tax compliance platform backed by $57M in funding. Drawing on his Big 4 accounting background at KPMG and hands-on experience building 7- and 8-figure ecommerce brands, Liu brought the tax expertise needed to automate the full sales tax lifecycle - from registration to filing - for thousands of ecommerce and SaaS businesses across 70+ countries.
Max Adams
Max Adams is the CEO of Executech, one of the largest managed IT services providers in the western United States and a flagship company within Evergreen Services Group's portfolio. A licensed CPA who cut his teeth at KPMG auditing clients with up to $60 billion in revenue, Adams joined Executech as CFO in 2023 and climbed to CEO, bringing a finance-first discipline to an industry often run by technologists. He leads a 240-person team serving 700+ organizations with a 97.7% customer satisfaction rate, while advocating loudly for AI and automation as the dividing line between MSPs that survive and those that don't.