Mehul Desai Email & Phone Number

Mehul Desai has 30+ years of experience in FinTech, ICT and related New Economy applications worldwide. Mehul has done pioneering work in the field of secure personalized transactions, evolving the Digital Wallet, to a Mobile Wallet, to Lifestyle Containers and upcoming Digital Money technologies (DeFi CBDC).Mehul co-founded C-SAM, a global technology-provider for secure mobile commerce and mobile payments, which was acquired by Mastercard Worldwide in 2014. Mehul co-founded PEaaS, a product-engineering-as-a-service provider, which was acquired by Finablr in 2019. Mehul was an investor and board member of Medici, a global Fintech innovation platform, which was acquired by Prove in 2021.Mehul is founder and CEO of DeZai (www.dezai.co). DeZai provides strategic advisory services and angel investments in the areas of FinTech and New Economy. Mehul is co-founder and Chairman of Tntra, Yntra and Gurukula, a Global Innovation Ecosystem that provides engineering services, future-of-work academy, innovation platform, incubation and funding for ventures around the world.Mehul is an advisor to Strong Force (strongforce.design) and an expert-in-residence at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago (polsky.uchicago.edu).Mehul has founded several companies that include C-SAM, Caspo (IoT/Smart-home solutions), PEaaS, Tntra and Zopus (New-media platform). Mehul was Group Chief Technology Officer for Finablr, a (formerly LSE listed) global financial services provider for forex and payments.Mehul co-authored March of Mobile Money, The Future of Lifestyle Management - which was published by Collins Business in 2010, and subsequently authored August of Money, The Quest for Cashless Society - which was published by Let’s Talk Payments in August 2015.Mehul has over one hundred issued patents, mainly in the areas of secure financial transactions and IoT. Mehul has been involved with several industry forums focused on developing standards for secure mobile transactions. Mehul often speaks at industry conferences on topics related to FinTech, Cashless Societies and Innovation.Mehul’s other areas of interest include Knowledge Methodologies & Knowledge Cities, New Education Models, New Representative Models, Use of ICT in Delivery of Public Services and Food Security.Mehul and the DeZai Foundation support several non-profit initiatives, including the Global Foodbanking Network, ChildFund International and Global Giving.Mehul holds a B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering and a M.S. in Engineering Management.

Listed skills include Mobile Devices, Mobile Payments, Mobile Commerce, Business Development, and 39 others.