At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Arab Emirates based CEO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Zachary Cefaratti
CEO and Founder of Dalma Capital
Zachary Cefaratti is Chief Executive Officer and principal founder of Dalma Capital Management Limited. Zachary has over 12 years’ professional experience in the financial services industry, having initially worked his way through his studies at Franklin University Switzerland, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, London School of Economics and University of Pennsylvania while operating independent mortgage brokerage, merchant and insurance businesses. He holds a dual bachelor’s degree in International Finance and Banking and International Business Management. Zachary began his search for alpha at age 7, when he began trading bonds and equities in an effort to grow assets he earned as a childhood film and television SAG/AFTRA actor. Throughout his career and education, he has been an active member of the investment community – he founded the Franklin University Investment Club and spearheaded the formation of the AIMA Middle East Executive Committee, representing the Alternative Investment Management Association in the MENASA Region. He was the principal organizer of the AIMA Middle East Hedge Fund Investors Summit and went on to found AIM Summit, the largest gathering of Hedge Fund, Private Equity, Venture Capital and Private Debt professionals in the Middle East. He regularly speaks at global industry events and has been a regular Market View contributor to the Khaleej Times. His efforts at Dalma Capital have been dedicated to seeking alpha generating portfolio managers and strategies, providing a platform on which they can maximize their alpha realization and capture. This is achieved by significantly reducing barriers to entry, substantial complexity, distribution hurdles, time to market and operating costs without compromising the robust operational, regulatory, legal and technological infrastructure that institutions demand.
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About Dalma Capital: Hedge fund manager, accelerator, pioneer in the institutionalization of crypto asset management, custody and investment banking
Ola Doudin
Co-Founder & CEO of BitOasis
Ola Doudin is the Co-Founder and CEO of BitOasis, a bitcoin consumer wallet and instant exchange focused on cash-based emerging markets. BitOasis aims to change the way people transact and send money by making it easy and secure to use bitcoin. She is also the co-founder of Yellow, a bitcoin payment processor, and currently serves as an advisor. She holds BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham and previously worked in IT Advisory for financial institutions at Ernst & Young London. Moving back to the Middle East, She was involved in various entrepreneurship initiatives supporting and mentoring tech startups and social entrepreneurs.
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About BitOasis: BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform offering a digital asset wallet and exchange to buy, sell, and trade.
Ahmed Omar
CEO of Odiggo
CEO at Odiggo Inc.
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About Odiggo: Odiggo is an NFT marketplace that enables users to Create, Collect, Sell NFT Books.
Basil Al Askari
Chief Executive Officer of MidChains
Basil Al Askari and Chris Ryan founded Midchains in 2017, since which Basil has been serving as its chief executive officer.
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About MidChains: MidChains is an upcoming regulated digital asset exchange and custodian
Mohammad Raafi Hossain
Co-founder and CEO of Fasset
Mohammad Raafi Hossain is the Co-founder and CEO at Fasset.
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About Fasset: A globally regulated digital asset exchange for the next billion.
Bokang Jia
CEO of Opus
Bokang has over 5 years experience in the software engineering industry. Having started multiple successful ventures, he drives the development of Opus.
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About Opus: Opus is a open-source decentralized music sharing platform with demo based on Ethereum and IPFS.
Christopher Fernandez
Chief Executive Officer of Block Gemini Technologies
Born in Toronto, Canada, Chad started his journey into the IT space as a hobby – slowly developing into a passion and resulting in a growing expertise in the field. His innovative drive has allowed him to succeed in various projects, including innovating proprietary advertising technology algorithms that perform vast targeting metrics, and developing a proprietary mortgage origination platform, currently utilized by Canada’s most trusted online mortgage brokerage – Mortgages.ca.
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About Block Gemini Technologies: BlockGemini is Blockchain development & Consultancy firm – over 25 years experience in software – now focusing on the blockchain revolution
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