Taejun Shin cofounded Gojo in 2014 and has led the company's growth until today as the CEO. Before Gojo, Taejun worked at Morgan Stanley and Unison Capital as an investment professional. To deal with an enormous number of investment projects, Taejun studied programming and automated many of the financial models, some of which are used even today. While working in the sector, Taejun founded Living in Peace, an NGO, in 2007, and created the first microfinance investment fund in Japan's history. He led building 3 children's homes in Japan and providing scholarship support for kids under the alternative care system. Taejun played a crucial role in reforming Japan's children's welfare policy, especially in improving the living conditions of kids detained in the government welfare offices.Taejun is the Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and is the youngest founding board member of Endeavor Japan. Taejun is the author of 9 books, a finisher of the 1648 km ultra-marathon, and a Karate black-belt holder. Taejun is fluent in Japanese, Korean, and English. He plays drums and loves shooting street photos of the world.

Alain is CEO and co-founder of FeenPOP. He has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services innovation for major public tech Companies (Nasdaq/Nyse registered) and he became a serial entrepreneur thereafter. Since 20+ years Alain has been involved as a Founder, Board Member and Advisor for startups (Strategy, Business & Corporate Finance) into the emerging world of Digital Technologies toward the transformation of incumbent players that significantly changed their development or operational models. His main focus has been mainly in the industries of Financial Services (Banks & Insurance), eMarketing and Telcos. With the creation of FeenPOP and since that time Alain has been focused on creating a disruptive financing and investing offering for SME/Corporate based on an inclusive Platform for business liquidity financing. Sustainability and balanced value sharing along the whole Finance ecosystems is its motto for FeenPOP.
 

Ziade Zoubeiri is Manager, Sub Saharan Africa within the Private Sector Division of the ITFC (International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation), and is leading the expansion and growth of ITFC’s private sector and SME trade finance operations in West and Central Africa. Ziade has extensive Trade Finance expertise of 14 years across several geographies. In 2008, he started out his banking career as Business Analyst with BNP Paribas UAE, subsequently moved to the Credit Analyst role in charge of a portfolio of clients across the Middle East. He then took up a Relationship Manager position within the Financial Institutions Department of BMCE Bank International plc, London, driving the growth of transaction banking services with Financial Institutions based out in West Africa. In 2013, he joined FIMBank plc, as Vice President Financial Institutions, contributing to the development of Trade Finance business across Africa. Ziade has a master’s degree in “International and Corporate Finance” from the ISC Paris School of Management in France as well as an Islamic Finance Qualification from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment UK.

Rick is the Co-founder and Managing Director of ClickPesa. Rick has been an entrepreneur for several years being active around finance, blockchain and software businesses in emerging markets.