Zul Javaid

Zul Javaid is the CEO of UAE Trade Connect, a pioneering initiative co-created by the UAE Banking Community and Etisalat Digital offering blockchain/AI solutions to solve some of banking’s traditional problems particularly in the Trade Finance space. Before being appointed to this role, Zul has been a senior Financial leader in Etisalat UAE since 2010, and prior to that has held CFO and CEO positions in telecom and IT companies. Zul has worked on 4 continents, in several industries, and believes strongly in the power of technology to enable and to disrupt whole industries.