MIFOS - Key Persons
Ali is a true visionary in the fintech world and will use his expertise and critical insight into the sector will help shape the ongoing product and community development strategy and advance our sustainability endeavors. Ali wears many hats across the African fintech landscape and will help our ecosystem grow and establish a stronger foothold for Mifos across the African fintech market.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Vice President and Head of Industry Readiness for the FedNow Service
Allison Baller serves as Vice President and Head of Industry Readiness for the FedNow Service, a near real-time payment and settlement service under development by the Federal Reserve Banks to support instant payments in the United States.
With more than two decades of enterprise IT project manaagement, David deftly guides and executes programmatic activities within Mifos with a key focus on our partner ecosystem, volunteer engagement, and digital public infrastructure advocacy.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Innovation Consultant
Deepa Prahalad is an author and innovation consultant. She has worked with start-ups and large multinationals, and co-authored the book, Predictable Magic: Unleash The Power of Design Strategy To Transform Your Business, which was selected by Fast Company as one of the "Best Design Books of the Year".
Job Titles:
- Strategic Advisor - Latin America
Diego is a seasoned banking professional with decades of operational and managerial experience running financial institutions serving the base of the pyramid in Ecuador and all throughout Central America. Most recently he has augmented this practical experience with advanced degrees in sustainability, innovation and digital transformation. Diego will be helping lead advocacy and ecosystem development throughout the region with a focus on digital public infrastructure at the country level. Diego will be helping us accelerate adoption of shared infrastructure for non-bank financial institutions at scale across a number of key countries and markets throughout the region through promotion and advocacy, definition of requirements and refining our go-to market strategy
Ed oversees the initiative, guiding the day to day operations of the community and the growth of the ecosystem. He champions our vision to new members worldwide and ensures our users, partners, and contributors can effectively collaborate.
Job Titles:
- Emeritus of the Board
- Founder
James, the original founder behind the Mifos project, provides a critical and discerning viewpoint and strategic insight from his well-rounded expertise in financial inclusion, ICT4D, MIS, and non-profit management.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Inclusive Fintech Advisor
Marie is a leader in inclusive fintech possessing an immense body of practical knowledge in helping organizations achieve operational excellence and maximize social performance from their technology investments. Marie has more than 25 years of experience in advising, designing, and implementing holistic solutions for businesses and non-profits in the US, Asia, and Africa. She helps ensure we have a holistic approach to delivering and supporting our open source platform and advises on sustainability of our initiative and fintechs in our ecosystem.
Michael brings to the Mifos board
his Java and core banking expertise along with leadership in guiding upstream development in open source communities as a decade-long volunteer to the Mifos Initiative and the lead maintainer of the Apache Fineract platform. He advises on maintaining a healthy contribution model for the community and guiding the technical vision.
Michael has held the roles of Chief Architect, Team Lead, or Head of Engineering in primarily Java-based enterprise software solutions at companies including Temenos, Red Hat, and currently Google. A recognized Java/J2EE/JDO expert, he co-authored the J2EE book "Core Java Data Objects".
Shashi brings more than 20 years of payments and financial services background in developing and developed markets to Mifos and is driving adoption of digital public infrastructure to streamline G2P payments across the public sector. Shashi is currently the founder and CEO of Oaken, a B2B SaaS platform on a mission to expand farmland resources and access.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Head of Open Source Strategy at AWS
Zaheda Bhorat is the head of open source strategy at AWS, where she also leads the open source program office. A computer scientist, Zaheda is a long-time active contributor to open source and open standards communities. She advises Mifos on open source, community development and organisational change.