About Alqami

David is responsible for reviewing and delivering the business development strategy, creating, and implementing proactive sales strategies to maximise sales and profitability.

David has spent the last 20 years in strategy, leadership, business, and advisory roles in financial services and consulting firms. He has extensive experience in product and proposition development, as well as M&A and post-merger integrations, for both early phase and global organisations. He has held senior positions with Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and the London Clearing House. He started his career in New York, and has subsequently worked extensively across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

David is an energetic and adaptable person who enjoys a wide range of activities outside of work from hiking through to history. He brings these passions into his professional endeavours.

Jon is responsible for the Company’s finance department, funding activities and platform operations. Alqami is Jon’s third startup, following IDT Corp and TMX Ltd.

He has experience across finance, telecoms and advanced technologies and has been advisor to a portfolio of early-stage tech companies in Big Data, AI/ML, IoT, AR/VR, Blockchain, Digital Marketing, and AdTech. Before Alqami, he was Managing Director of Theomobex (“TMX”), a funded early-stage technology company in the AI/M2M data analytics marketing space, until the company’s exit via trade sale in January 2020.

Prior to this, he spent eight years at Cisco, as its Director of S+CC (Smart and Connected Communities) worldwide, where he managed large-scale projects in the IoT solutions portfolio and Cisco’s IoE Venture Fund. Before joining Cisco, Jon spent ten years at IDT Corporation, from its start-up phase in New Jersey, to its IPO on NASDAQ, and its eventual listing on the NYSE as a multi-billion-dollar telecoms and media company. Before transitioning to the TMT sector, Jon had a successful career in banking. His last position was as Vice President, Syndication & Placement at Sumitomo Bank (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.) in New York and Tokyo.

Jon is highly motivated, professionally and in the gym, and applies this sense of grit to any project he gets involved with. Jon is also passionate about diversity and equality, to provide a promising future for his daughter.

Harpreet is responsible for architecting, designing and leading the implementation of the Alqami product portfolio.

Harpreet is a proven technical leader having held multiple CTO roles with Fortune 500 companies. Harpreet was previously the CTO for Juniper’s Global Financial Services Vertical responsible for helping clients in Financial Services Industry with strategy, solutions to achieve Digital Transformation. When Harpreet was at Cisco, he worked with clients in Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare to develop and deliver solutions. He has experience in working with global exchanges, banks, payment processors and insurance companies; developing complex real-time intensive and scalable solutions, including trading desk optimisation, cloud-banking, next gen digital banking.

In his spare time, Harpreet is a guest lecturer at Syracuse University, teaching a course on Blockchain and AI architecture, is an avid yogi and self-proclaimed ‘Geek’.

Michael is responsible for Alqami’s Data science strategy, deep learning and product oversight.

Michael was the first Chief Data Scientist at Neuberger Berman, GIC, the Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund, and Point72 Asset Management. Before taking these roles in the finance industry, he was head of engineering and the head of modelling and optimization at Quantcast, where he led a team of machine learning and computer science experts in the design of high volume, targeted, real-time bidding for internet advertising. Earlier in his career, he was Chief Scientist for Fortent, and Searchspace that provided market leading transaction monitoring, risk assessment, and fraud detection systems for financial institutions.

Dr. Recce was also a product engineering manager at Intel Corporation, where he led the development of new memory products for the company. He has published over 60 peer reviewed papers, and holds eleven patents, including one for research of a behavioural biometric called dynamic grip recognition, and is a recipient of the Thomas A. Edison Award [2005]. Dr. Recce has been a tenured faculty member at University College, London (UCL), and a professor of information systems at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of California Santa Cruz and his doctorate in Neuroscience from UCL.

Voracious reader, particularly on topics related to science, data, and medicine. Left his house once to kill a squirrel with a slingshot – but don’t worry he also drives a Tesla!