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Faisal Husain

CEO at Synechron, Inc.

Faisal Husain is an entrepreneur and proven business leader with over 20 years of financial services, technology and consulting expertise. Based out of Dubai, as a Co-Founder and CEO of Synechron, Husain is responsible for providing the vision and strategy that has brought the company from a self-funded start-up to global enterprise with $400M in revenue. He has done so by identifying an important gap in the market for deep financial services domain knowledge combined with technical expertise, allowing Synechron to stand at the cutting-edge of digital, financial innovation. Under Husain’s leadership, Synechron has invested heavily in R&D to drive forward digital innovation, launching Synechron’s global FinLabs, which allow financial institutions to touch and feel new digital technologies. It is this direction that lead to the launch of Synechron’s six blockchain accelerators to help financial institutions to accelerate their blockchain projects and set up a model for future innovation. Prior to Synechron, Husain was responsible for spearheading the technical development of enterprise-level applications for major financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch and Dun & Bradstreet and served as a Partner at Fusion Technologies. Husain understands how financial markets work and how technology can be used to lower cost and increase revenue. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master’s of Science in Computer Science.