Balamurugan Ganesan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

As the Chief Product Officer at B3X.ai, I lead a talented team alongside visionary leaders, including our CEO and founding members, who have made significant contributions to the crypto space before founding B3X. Together, we are developing one of the most advanced AI-driven DeFi protocols, with a mission to build innovative, scalable, and secure decentralized financial solutions that are redefining global trading and investment.I’m currently leading the development of three core products that will have a transformative impact on decentralized finance (DeFi):AI-Powered Tokenized Funds: Overseeing the integration of advanced AI algorithms to optimize tokenized fund strategies, driving enhanced efficiency and profitability for users.Injective Protocol Integration: Spearheading the integration of B3X’s protocol with the Injective network to boost interoperability and scalability across the DeFi ecosystem.Perpetual Trading DEX with 1000x Leverage: Leading the creation of a decentralized exchange for perpetual contracts with 1000x leverage, featuring synthetic real-world asset (RWA) tokens. This offering is designed to accelerate adoption while ensuring compliance, security, and trust across the ecosystem.These initiatives are central to our mission of creating decentralized financial solutions that will shape the future of global trading.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At FalconX, a leading prime broker in the crypto space, Balamurugan drives the strategic roadmap for principal and automated electronic trading. Responsibilities include:- Pricing Spreads: Developing solutions for OTC quoting desk to manage risk during market volatility.- Forex Business: Enhancing Forex trading capabilities.- Trade Operations Automation: Improving efficiency and scalability through automation.- Execution Management System: Optimizing order execution and trading strategies.- Complex Accounting: Creating accounting solutions for diverse crypto fund structures.

India

• Product Manager for a cloud-native portfolio management and accounting solution that supports multiple asset classes, multi-currency portfolios and complex global fund structures designed for alternative investment managers like hedge funds, private equity firms and other asset managers• Responsible for defining product roadmap, writing user stories, squad planning and overall release management

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Product owner of the Financial Control team for regulatory products related to Client money segregation• Work closely with Line of Business and Compliance team in designing the products ensuring it meets all the regulatory requirements• Part of scrum teams as product owner managing backlogs and priorities• Successfully launched an European version of the product catering to BREXIT related changes in a very short span of time• Designed an analytical utility product which forecasts various risk parameters related to Client money segregation with visualization capabilities• Currently working on designing and developing regulatory products in AMRS and APAC

Chennai Area, India

● Part of the product management team incubated within CRISIL in the effort to externalize CRISIL’s deep expertise in Financial Research space focused on improving the efficiency and productivity of a Research Analyst● Worked with global research firms and research analysts as customers and launched products to solve their latent needs and pain areas ● Involved in two successful launches of the product covering different modules like Financial Modeling, Data Analysis, Newsflow, Report generation, Database and Earnings management● Responsible for planning the product roadmap, creating user stories and executing sprints● Worked closely with the UX designers and Engineering team in execution - grooming sessions, wireframe mockups, stand up calls and testing● Scaled up a 2 member partner team to 15+ members within a span of 1 year, who work round the clock supporting the earnings of coverage companies powering the data backend of the product● Established processes and built the product flows for the partner data team that resulted in 80% overall time savings● Coordinated all vendor related engagements and handled third party data supplier● Collaborated with the Business Development/marketing team to build a holistic view of competitive Intelligence to track client feedbacks, competitive products and latest development in the industry● Developed several marketing collaterals, conducted numerous client demos after the MVP release and closely involved in pricing and product positioning of the Financial Research platform● Initiated and organized cross-training programs on various SME topics across the organization

Chennai Area, India

● Responsible for Derivatives Product implementation and integration with exchange systems and change management● Managed all the front-to-back-office product implementation, vendor management and regulatory reporting for F&O markets● Functional Expertise in Trading, Clearing, Settlement, Client Reporting, Regulatory Reporting and Exchange Reconciliation● Provide assistance to Derivatives business to get the clearing membership from various exchanges● Requirements gathering, analysis and Functional requirements documentation (FRD) in order to customize the trade/post-trade products to fit as per the business need● Co-ordinate and Implement exchange mandated changes, simulation testing, rehearsals and platform migrations

Chennai Area, India

● Understanding CRM needs and existing sales process of clients ● Preparing the solution designs, presenting prototype solutions and advocating optimum techniques● Responsible for preparing Business requirements document and convert them into functional specifications● Preparing user manuals and conducting customized user and administrator training programs for Salesforce product● Involved in pre-sales meetings and providing product demos● Providing best practices recommendations and helping customers to plan and execute methods to improve the User Adoption● Provided solutions to the clients to improve their ROI on Campaigns, Lead Management, Sales Rep Efficiency Tracking etc● Data Migration from other databases and legacy system to Salesforce. This includes handling volumes of data for Data Reduplication, Data Cleanup and Data Importing

Chennai Area, India

• Involved in understanding the existing development process and designing systems to increase the efficiency of developer’s and better user experience• Designed and developed a centralized Build and Merge system which is being used extensively by the eBay developers• Provide scalable Infrastructure for web development

United Arab Emirates

Pre Investment and Post Investment analysis of Private Equity and Hedge funds• Gathered the requirements from clients and was responsible for the overall design• Studied and analyzed the existing alternative investment process of a large firm in the Middle East with specific reference to Private Equity and Hedge funds• Developed a broad investment selection process to aid in the decision making• Designed qualitative and quantitative tools for selecting and tracking investments in Private Equity and Hedge funds• Handled a team of 3 during the implementation of the investment analysis tools• Interacted with a lot of Investment bankers and gained insight about the investment process during the primary research phase

Chennai Area, India

● Managed full life cycle projects, including requirements gathering, documentation, design, development and deployment● Designed and led development team of VEGA (Verizon Geospatial Application), a database-driven web application for National Engineering and Outside Plant Planning using J2EE and Oracle Spatial● Designed and developed several complex algorithms for the Verizon in-house Geospatial application● Monitored production migrations, patch updates, application releases and reviewed major incidents with the product group teams● Converted several stored procedures written in SQL server to PL/SQL for a database migration project● Converted an existing C# desktop application to a web based J2EE application● In charge of DBA activities (space management, database creation, indexing and fine tuning spatial queries) on the development servers● Gained expertise in writing shell scripts to automate kit build and patch maintenance process resulting in a reduction of deployment time by 50%● Instructed and Mentored a team of three developers during the implementation of address validation process in customer database● Received professional training on UNIX, C++, Java, OOAD, RDBMS, J2EE, Java Struts framework

Pgpm, Finance, Investment Banking

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