Ali Pourdad, Ca Email & Phone Number

Nassau, Bs

Quantfury is a global brokerage that offers commission-free trading and investing at real-time spot prices of global and crypto exchanges. Founded by a group of traders, quants, and machine learning professionals in 2017, Quantfury’s mission is to change the exploitative retail trading industry globally, making it cost-effective, fair and transparent. As of 2024, Quantfury has 750,000+ users in more than 60 countries. Quantfury is not available in the United States, Canada, Bahamas, or British Virgin Islands.

Nassau, Bs

Quantfury is a new paradigm of brokerage that offers commission-free trading and investing at real-time spot prices of global and crypto exchanges.

Pourdad Capital Partners is a Bahamas-based family office that both invests and advises young businesses and entrepreneurs with high-potential. Our transactions are traditionally venture style deals at the Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series-A round stage. With deep experience in technology and startups, we are looking for businesses that have potential to achieve market leading positions rapidly. We understand and can support entrepreneurs navigate through early critical decisions and accelerate the path to success.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Progressa (progressa™) (formerly: Creditloans Canada Financing). A leading Fintech company based out of Vancouver, British Columbia focused on helping Canadians find alternative lending options that aids in debt consolidation while removing expensive options similar to pay day loans. Progressa offers flexible installment loan solutions and offers repayment plans that progress a customer through lower interest rates as payments are received. In addition to my duties as an executive, I am a member of the board of directors of the Company.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Named by CB Insights to the 2018 Fintech 250, a list of the world’s top fintech startups, Progressa is Canada’s fastest growing financial technology lender focused on changing the way pay cheque to pay cheque Canadians access and build credit. Since 2013, our mission has been to build a socially responsible consumer finance company that encourages borrowing for the right reasons that Canadians can be proud of. Our enterprise solutions suite, driven by the 5th Generation Progressa Score™, is built for collection agencies, enterprise, and point of sale finance.We empower collection agencies and enterprise to offer proactive solutions and drive healthy recoveries while protecting brand reputation with industry-leading NPS and servicing. For point of sale finance, we allow platform partners and other originators to expand their merchant offerings to service non-prime consumers and achieve industry-leading approval rates. See www.progressa.io for more.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Merchant Advance Capital Ltd. provides financing for small businesses that have cash flow but lack the collateral required to qualify for traditional bank debt. The Company's solution is one of the only non-dilutive forms of financing available for such businesses. Other benefits for our clients include fast approval and flexible automated payments that make cash flow easy to manage. The Company has offices in both Toronto and Vancouver.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

The Canadian Lenders Association (CLA) supports innovative lending promoting the technology and business processes that are transforming our financial industry - www.canadianlenders.org.

Creditloans Canada Capital Inc. was formed to fund an aggressive loan growth plan for Progressa's (Formerly - Creditloans Canada Financing) consumer loan on-balance sheet portfolio. The company is offering secured fixed income bonds (which pay up to 12%) to eligible investors by way of an Offering. The Offering is eligible to retail investors in most provinces, including Ontario as of Q2-2016 (and excluding Quebec).

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

My Recent project experience includes:• Refinancing and/or sale of mining assets and operations of a public companies in the junior mining space;• Preserved, managed, marketed and successfully sold the core going-concern assets and operations of Streetlight Intelligence Inc.(SI); SI was formerly listed on TSX and developed internationally leading adaptive streetlight dimming technology which was successfully deployed in Canada and the US;• Assisted the owners of a real estate rental and development company to refinance and restructure their assets and operations to settle their debts with its creditors, terminate the role of a receiver-manager from another firm and recover a solvent, profitable operation and large tax loss;• Managed the repair, environmental testing and remediation and the marketing and sale of a hotel during a receivership to maximize the net recovery for the secured creditors; a significant premium was obtained through our approach to upgrading the distressed hotel property and managing a competitive sale process;• Managed a successful proposal to creditors for an insolvent public company with a wholly owned subsidiary with a processing business connected with the oil and gas industry; the proposal involved options for creditors to accept cash or shares for settlement of their claims and alternative options for TSX approvals;

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• Experience with wide range of equipment, loan portfolio, and company valuations, including mobile machinery used in the forest industry, marine vessels and mining operations based on future mineral reserves;• Reviewing and auditing controls of all aspects of his clients’ operations, including exploration, processing, financing, cash controls, sales, and administration, where applicable;• Served as project manager on a number of bought-deal financing and convertible bond offerings; providing comfort to underwriters and conducting due-diligence meetings with underwriters and legal counsel; • Client portfolio consisted of assurance engagements in the following sectors: o Forestry, Mining, & Energy/Utilities – Thompson Creek Mining, Red Back Mining, B2Gold Corporation, Roca Mines, Howe Sound Pulp and Paper o Financial Services – Forest & Marine Financial Group, JP Morgan Asset Management (Canada) Inc., Phillips, Hager & North o Restaurant Services – A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund• Significant time at various open-pit and underground mines in BC and the United States and a full range of mining operations involving junior exploration, development and large scale production and involving most North American commodities, including gold, silver, copper, coal, tungsten, and molybdenum.

Chartered Accountant, Accounting And Finance

Insolvency & Restructuring, Insolvency & Restructuring

Accounting, Accounting

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Finance