Siddharth Singhal

Head of Business Development

2023

Driving, coordinating adoption across the stack: L1, Etherlink (non-custodial optimistic EVM rollup) and Tezos smart-rollups

Expert

2021

Global Talent Visa Ambassador

2020

Director, Enterprise adoption

2021 - 2023

Infrastructure for the decentralised web From the Substrate blockchain framework to Polkadot, the sharded protocol enabling blockchains to operate seamlessly together at scale, Parity builds the foundation of Web3 Responsible for driving adoption of Substrate, Polkadot, Kusama across enterprises. Select focus verticals include: web3 infrastructure, Financial Services, Social Networks, Energy, Gaming, Sports, Humanitarian etc Select notable partnerships: FCB (Football Club Barcelona), Mythical Games, Energy Web Foundation, project Liberty / DSNP / Frequency network, United Nations, Transparent Systems, Aventus networks, Neo foundation / Watr protocol, peaq among others Expert Member / Collaborator / Advisor: Multiple networks, enterprises, consortia and initiatives building on Polkadot/Substrate stack. Also, Blockchain for Europe, UN-ITU AWG, Digital Euro association, Stanford FDCI, Digital Dollar Project among others

Global Head of Product Partnerships

2019 - 2021

Funding shouldn't be a barrier to education. Prodigy Finance is revolutionising the way borrowers and investors see student loans through our borderless credit model. Over the past decade we’ve helped thousands of international students gain access to postgraduate education through our loans. Lender to international students from 135 different countries over $1bn cumulatively. VC backers: Index, Balderton and others; debt backers: Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and others. Responsible for: Digital Assets (debt tokenization), Cross border payments, Disbursements, Credit-ratings, Digital Identity, FinCrime, new-products

Business Development & Strategic Relations, APAC

2018 - 2019

R3 is an enterprise distributed ledger (blockchain) firm working with a network of over 300 banks, financial institutions, regulators, trade associations, professional services firms and technology companies. Our Corda platform is already being used in industries from financial services to healthcare, shipping, insurance and more. It records, manages, executes institutions’ financial agreements in perfect synchrony with their peers, creating a world of frictionless commerce. Overseeing RFPs, consortium memberships, key-accounts, investor-relations and network expansion efforts across the region working with financial institutions, central banks, exchanges, and funds across Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Japan & Thailand. Topics: Consortiums, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Identity, Trade Finance, Capital Markets, Insurance, Healthcare

Services & Business Development, APAC

2017 - 2018

R3’s Corda platform delivers on the promise of blockchain for every business in every industry. Overseeing projects, RFPs and network expansion efforts across the region working with financial institutions, central banks, exchanges, and funds across Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Japan & Thailand. Topics: Consortiums, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Identity, Trade Finance, Capital Markets, Insurance, Healthcare

Founder / CEO

2015 - 2017

CipherBoard is a secure keyboard that enables sending digital assets securely across in any app you use. A private on-device machine learning app that gives users better keyboard recommendations without key-logging and enables end-to-end encryption across Andriod/iOS. With our partnership across trusted centralised and decentralised platforms such as Coinbase (http://coinbase.com) and Stellar network (http://stellar.org ; Lumen or XLM), CipherBoard users can now transfer 100s of digital assets securely to friends while texting! CipherBoard is one of the first few production apps to hit the iOS, Android app-stores with live transactions on public-blockchain (Stellar protocol) enabling over 10k users to remit money for almost-free (network fee 0.00001 XLM/tx). With support for 100s of tokens including stable-coins across Coinbase and Stellar networks: BTC, LTC, ETH, XLM, BCH, XRP, JPY, CNY, EURT and 100s more. For security and personalisation the keyboard utilises secure-element on embedded device (iOS and Android) and LSTM - RNNs (Long short-term memory, recurrent neural network architectures) as industry firsts! i.e. CipherBoard user's had access to these features a year before Apple adopted such architecture for iOS Quicktype. About: https://www.cipherboard.com; Founded in 2015, HQ in Singapore, Angel backed Accelerators: Facebook (FbStart Accelerate), YC (StartupSchool) Hiring: CipherBoard is powered by the crypto / alt-coins / stable-coins space, enabling cross-border value transfer including newer, innovative methods involving blockchain (distributed ledger technology) and utility tokens used for value transfers. Join our growing distributed team of over 8 globally: https://angel.co/cipherboard/jobs

Co-founder / Chief Operations Officer

2015 - 2016

HelloSimplify is a productivity platform for teams providing cross-functional calendar, to-do lists, file sharing and messaging as a single service on smartphones. HQ in Singapore and growing team of over 12 globally. Hired as the First employee (VP Product), I conceptualised and brought product to market, ensuring that we build the best & most relevant platform for our users. As COO, I headed the global operations and built the teams: engineering, design, product, marketing. Grew the HelloSimplify presence across markets, and made sure that we're the best place for group productivity needs. Functions: General Management, Hiring, Corporate Strategy, Operations iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/hellosimplify/id1108025103?l=en&mt=8 Connect with us: http://www.hellosimplify.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/hellosimplify/

Head of Product

2014 - 2015

As the global Product Lead, headed the global product strategy, management and execution, led Fastacash's platform efforts by expanding engineering teams and taking the first key payment integrations live across the globe. Managed product team and administered go-live platform deliveries for smartphone applications and web based integrations across financial institutions in Europe, Southeast Asia, Middle East and India. Functions: Product Leadership, Partnerships, Strategy, Hiring, Operations fastacash™ provides a global social payments platform which allows users to transfer value (money, airtime, other tokens of value, etc.) along with digital content (photos, videos, audio, messages, etc.) through social networks and messaging platforms, enabling secure peer–to–peer transactions domestically and internationally. Raised $23.5M in 4 rounds and has over 40 employees globally. MAS FinTech Awards: Best (1st place) awarded by Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of MAS, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and ABS Chairman, Wee Ee Cheong

Mentor

2012 - 2014

JFDI is a seed startup accelerator in Singapore and is the first Techstars Network member in Southeast Asia. Bringing the Y Combinator model of early-stage startup acceleration to Singapore and Southeast Asia.The 100 day program, with participants from all around the world, runs twice per year. Focus areas to support startups: Payments, Digital Security, NFC (Near Field Communications), Hardware, B2B businesses