About Us

Vision

We keep innovating the ways to harness the power of blockchain technology to facilitate financial inclusion. At Pundi X, we want to make digital currencies to be more accessible to more people across the borders and further increase the value of digital currencies for all.

Team

Team Pundi X operates globally with physical offices in Jakarta, São Paulo, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo and Singapore. We have over 100 staff as of January 2022, half of us are R&D focused.

Management team

Zac Cheah

Co-founder & CEO

Zac was an Erasmus Mundus scholar at Sweden's KTH (M.Sc Computing) and Norway's NTNU (M.Sc Security) with B.IT in Malaysia's MMU (Hons). He was Chief Evangelist Officer of Opera China, Chairperson of W3C Interest Group in Beijing and Oslo prior to founding Pundi X. Zac was awarded Top Ten Fintech Leader by Singapore Fintech Association in 2019.

Peko Wan

Chief Ecosystem Officer

Peko Wan has over 15 year experience in the IT industry. Before joining Pundi X, she worked for Opera Software and Ogilvy & Mather. Peko received her MBA from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature from Taiwan's National Sun Yat-sen University.

Sri Balan Krishnan

Chief Liaison Officer

Balan brings with him over twenty years of work experience gained in the public and private sectors. He has extensive experience with governance and compliance matters regulating the blockchain and fintech space. As a practising Singaporean lawyer, he has prevailed in novel cryptocurrency related disputes litigated in the High Court of Singapore and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Balan received his B.Soc.Sci (Political Science) (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Lovely Halim

Director of Finance

Lovely Halim joined Pundi X in 2017 and was Indonesia's country manager prior to leading the finance department. She received her Bachelor of Professional Accounting from Holmes Institute in Sydney, Australia and an Associate Degree in Business Administration from Green River Community College in Seattle, Washington.

João Victor Mendes

Director of Global BD and Partnerships

Graduated in Business Administration from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo Joao has been in crypto since 2016 and is working to push crypto adoption specially in Latin America. He is Pundi X's early supporter since 2017 and was Pundi X Brazil country manager prior to heading global partnerships. Joao flies airplanes and gliders in his free time.

Board of council

Constantin Papadimitriou (Kiki)

President

Kiki has 17 years’ experience as founding CEO of two Indonesian fintech companies - Infinetworks and E2Pay; He has an M.Sc Computer Science (Purdue University) and B.Sc Computer Science (University of Tulsa). Pundi X is the founding member of Blockchain Association of Indonesia and Kiki is the treasurer for the association.

David Ben Kay

Council

David has over thirty years of legal and tech experience. David is the president of Function X Foundation and Pundi X's Chief Legal Counsel. Prior he was Ethereum Foundation's governing board member, General Counsel of Microsoft China, and Managing Partner of Denton Hall. David graduated JD from UCLA.

Danny Lim

Council

Danny is a core contributor of Margin X exchange and a financing and tokenomics expert. He has product design experience with Baidu, Lenovo and co-founded Pundi X. Danny is a PhD Law scholar from Tsinghua University and holds ACMA and CGMA accounting qualifications. He is an avid jogger.