Our Team

Our Team is comprised of industry leaders whose combined knowledge and expertise is set to shake-up the world of Trade Finance documentation.

Sameer Sehgal

Chief Executive Officer
20+ years as a Banker, heading Citi’s Europe, Middle East & Africa Trade. Grew business by 600% in 5 years. Experienced in global trade with a focus on trade technology & operations.

Uzair Bawany

Chief Revenue Officer
Entrepreneur with global experience in building business. Completed first MBO in 2003. Experienced in banking, HR & Executive Search.

Achille D’Antoni

Chief Risk Management Officer
35+ years of experience in Commercial & Private Banking as well as extensive experience in Product & business building.

Asia Pacific

T.S.Shankar

Head

Europe

Sante Zampini

Head of Agent Relations

30+ years of int. experience in corporate banking. Focused on Relationship Management & Sales, involving business development & deal origination across industries.

Shishir Vyas

Chief Client Experience & Digitisation Officer

25+ years in financial services, IT & consulting. Expertise in Internet/Mobile banking, Potal technologies, Information Architecture, Content Management & CRM. Digital Technology head at Citi.

Varinder Dhaliwal

Head of Indirect Sales

20+ years’ experience leading teams in global corporations, most recently as Head of Project Management at Marks & Spencer. Specialising in operational developing & delivering complex business transformations

Sambit Patnaik

Head of Business Implementations

25+ years’ experience specialising in planning & implementing major transformation initiatives across global banks. Most recently held various leadership roles in Program Delivery & Client Implementations at Citi & Barclays.

Helen Thorne

Executive Support

30 years’ experience in administrative & operational roles across various sectors, including NHS & recruitment within Banking & Finance.

Laura Thorne

Manager – People & Culture

An experienced Operations & Facilities administrator, having worked for 12 years within the recruitment industry in various roles.

Sebastian Strub

Financial Controller

20+ years career accountant with 10+ years’ in senior roles as financial controller & director across global organisations. Specialising in management accounting, financial accounting & tax advisory.

James Pennington

Finance Director

CA with 20+ years in Finance. Skilled in building scalable int. businesses, experience of system implementations, financial accounting, int. tax & SAAS. Most recently as CFO for Haygain & prior as Global Financial Controller at Alfresco Software.

Daniel Clayden

Chief Technology Officer

Over 25 years experience delivering technology solutions to the financial services industry in London & internationally. Experienced at senior programme management covering software development lifecycle with a focus on front office technology in Equity Derivative, Cash Equities and Algorithmic Trading. Speciality in Trade Capture & Risk Management for Equity Derivatives and Structured Notes.

Matan Aharoni

Head of Development

Experienced working in different environments ranging from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies, Matan is now an integral part in designing and leading a team of talented developers that will strengthen the core of the Traydstream Platform.

Aleksandar Apostolov

Lead Developer

An integral part in the design, analysis and evaluation of our OCR engine. His quantitative and conceptual problem solving experience in a range of technical environments sets the foundation to understand problems and design solutions for our clients.

Alexandru Adler

Infosec Security Analyst

An accomplished, reliable and pragmatic cyber security and technical compliance professional. Has a vast experience in vulnerability management programs, penetration testing and GDPR with a wealth of ICT experience from several multi nationals.

Sally Tolson

IT Support Lead

Experienced across incident management, new systems implementation and creating sustainable business practices in functional analysis and support documentation.

Moshe Wolfson

Global Sales and Origination Lead

Thirty years of rich experience in the field of direct and indirect sales to major Banking and Corporate clients, Moshe leads charge of the European Banks. Most recent as Executive Vice President Sales at Surecomp where he led the trade finance vendor for over 12 years whilst also developing fintech partner programs with a digitization offering.

Adam Kasraoui

Global Sales and Origination Lead

16 years in the financial and technology sector and most recently at Bolero International where he spearheaded the global strategic sales covering Europe and Middle East, Adam is an integral part of expanding our client reach within Europe & the Middle East.

Steven Cook

Cloud Engineer

Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, Steven will support the platform within the IT Services function.

Claire Saillard

Tech Graduate Analyst

With her recently acquired degree from the London School of Economics, Claire is now an integral member of the Technology Team.

Marcus Bovelle

IT Support Analyst

Graduate from De Montfort University, Marcus’s strong blend of technical skill and interpersonal skill will bolster the client support initiatives.

Edwy Mandret

Infrastructure Software Engineer

Edwy joins the Infrastructure Team. His recent positions in web development and digital security has taken him across Europe where he has successfully created 3D visualizations with Pure C using light reflections and designed compliance analysis tools with Econocom.

Leonardo Bruekers Soares

Software Engineer

With his impressive analytical and conceptual problem-solving abilities, Leonardo offers support to the Development Team.

Bogdan Chelariu

Senior Front-End Engineer

Bogdan has developed a variety of applications ranging from ticketing, pension planning, task management, administration, and video streaming. His experience with conceptualizing, designing, and improving user interfaces helps improve key areas related to our product road map.

Martin Hobbs

Legal Counsel

Martin has over 18 years of in-house legal commercial experience and has advised our Leadership team since our inception in 2016. Martin’s success has helped grow several fintechs where he has formerly acted as a board member and General counsel for Morse PLC, Mobile Money Network, IRIS Software & Services and Boo.com.

Brij Joshi

Business Program Manager

Brij has spent the better part of two decades building and growing product lines and teams in various businesses. His years at Natwest, Barclays and Citi Bank has given him deep expertise in product and client management across the EMEA region. He has extensive experience working in Treasury, GTS, covering Tech, Ops and Product Management.

Daniel Teegan

Support Engineer

Daniel assists the Platform Support function. Daniel voluntarily attended the Finnish military and successfully achieved the rank of Corporal during his tenure. He has also spent time working across different industries that range from IT, sales and construction.

India

Raju Joshi

Lead – Controls

Kavita Gawde

Manager – Trade Rules

Sanu Ghosh

Senior Trade Officer

Ankit Patel

Senior Manager – Pilots

Chirag Jain

Senior Manager – Pilots

Vishal More

Senior Manager – UI / OCR

Dale Lobo

Lead – Pilots

Inder Singh Bajetha

Senior Manager – Controls

Milan Soni

IT Help-Desk, Manager, Mumbai

Rohan Mahadik

Senior Manager – Pilots

Sujish Pillai

Manager – Pilots

Prashant Sawant

Trade Officer

Sumit Dey

Senior Manager – UI / OCR

Shabbir Alam

Sr. Software Developer, Kolkata

Subhrajyoti Banerjee

Senior Manager – Rules

Swarnendu Chatterjee

Senior Software Developer

Ranendranath Haldar

Software Developer, Kolkata

Awanish Pandey

Senior Manager – IT Support

Priyanka Chaudhuri

Lead – Rules

Shivam Soni

Lead – Compliance & OCR

Sanjukta Chatterjee

QA Lead

Yashwini Banjan

Manager – People & Culture

Vikas Thakur

Senior Manager – Quality Assurance

Jayan Menon

Country Head, India

Ashish Karnad

Senior Manager – Cloud Engineer

Sumedh Alshi

Software Engineer

Anshu Ishan

Business Project Manager

Ashin Banerjee

Software Engineer

Rohan Soni

Business Project Manager

Niraj Burnwal

Senior QA Analyst

Rahul Mishra

Senior QA Analyst

Jaydeep Ghuge

Senior QA Analyst

Sukantu Barman

Business Project Manager

Amar Mhatre

Senior Software Engineer

Danish Choudhrey

IT Support Engineer

Mahender Pal Chadda

Senior Manager – Pilots

Harkirat Singh

Dev-Ops Engineer

Abhinav Gujral

Senior Manager – Partnerships Business Analyst

Sayyed Irfan Rizvi

Pilots Manager

Ankit Soni

Trade Rules Manager

Middle East

Asif N. Ali

Chief Product Officer

Ameen Allibhoy

Head of Partnerships

Ganesh Prabhu

Head of Product

Kazim Ali

Head of Architecture

Srividya Subramanian

Global Sales & Origination Lead

Rakesh Kumaran

Sales & Origination Manager

North America

Gary Bhattacharjee

Co-founder, Tech Board Advisor

20+ years in FS, from buy-side to sell-side and technology. Business and Tech leadership in IBM, Citi and Morgan Stanley. Partner in consultancy practise with successful exit to HP. Experienced in FinTech, focus on AI, Data, Trade Platforms and WM. IIT Kharagpur alum.

Asad Allibhoy

Lead – People & Culture

10+ years in operations optimization, talent management and brand strategy development. Passionate about combining data and problem solving methodologies to create a culture of continuous improvement for internal and external clients. Geared toward creating a meritocratic, collaborative and sustainable model that will help today’s young talent transform into tomorrow’s leaders.

Pakistan