Zakir, the visionary founder of CapoFin, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the world of finance advisory. With a background in corporate finance, investment banking and financial strategy, Zakir has dedicated his career to helping businesses navigate complex financial landscapes and achieve sustainable growth.

Before establishing CapoFIn, Zakir held leadership roles in banks, where he successfully optimized financial strategies. His passion for empowering businesses, coupled with a deep understanding of supply chain finance led to the inception of CapoFin in 2023.

As the Head of Strategic relations of CapoFin, Claire is deeply passionate about connecting businesses around the world and empowering them to trade easily and gain simplified access to alternate financing.

She is fortunate to work alongside talented and innovative colleagues at CapoFin, and together she has developed the fintech platform. As she looks to grow and evolve CapoFin in the years to come, she is excited to continue driving CapoFin’s vision of making alternate financing simplified.

Vijay is a Fellow Chartered Accountant in practice for more than 30 years and the founding partner of a diversified and a leading accounting firm having branches in Mumbai, Kolkata and office in Coimbatore. He is currently focused on structuring International Trade Finance across various countries with CapoFin including providing his expertise on a policymaking level.

He worked with major banks and FIs in India on behalf of his firm for the past 25 years in the field of audit, compliance and working capital management. He was also the Chairman and Independent Director for a BSE listed company besides being a peer reviewer for Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Vinod holds an MBA from a leading UK university and an Investment Banking Operations specialist with noteworthy experience in major investment banks. He was raised in India and the UK and worked across major international banks in the operations team. He oversees the operations function at CapoFin.

With the growing importance of data in every organisation, he has shifted his focus on Data Governance and Data Quality assisting many banks and public sector organisations in implementing data governance and data quality framework. He strongly believes in adopting latest technology to simply complex lending solutions.

Bala looks after the Canadian distribution business for CapoFin. He has worked in retail, finance, and manufacturing industries during his 3+ decades of experience. Over this period, he has been involved in handling multiple currencies, complex financial and accounting transactions.

He is currently mentoring his subordinates for membership into both CPA - Canada and CPA - USA. Raised in India, Bala has worked in UAE for over a decade and later in Canada where he has settled. Bala received his CPA, CGA from CPA, Ontario. He has also cleared part of CIMA (UK).

Kamran is an ESG and Sustainable Finance certified banker with 25 years of corporate and investment banking experience in the US, UK, MENA and South Asia encompassing 15 years as lead banker and principal revenue generator. He has a comprehensive understanding of full suite of investment and corporate banking products attained via execution in developed, emerging and frontier markets.

He has extensive experience in investor and regulatory management and has spearheaded numerous first-of-their-kind structured credit transactions and securitizations in the US, UK, Europe, South America, MENA and Pakistan across various asset classes.