Samer Saab

Samer is a problem-solver attracted to the toughest challenges. He has spent his career solving clients' and consumers' problems with operational and digital solutions. Today he spends every day driving value for their member banks of the Alloy Labs Alliance.

He facilitates peer member discussions and hands-on Workgroups from the discovery and problem definition phase through solution selection and implementation and commercialization of the results into viable and scalable solutions.

Previously he spend five years financially engaging the world's unbanked as co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at Wala, where his team addressed issues that prevent the world's underserved from accessing basic financial services, utilizing the most innovative tools available in the market, including Dala, a blockchain-based cryptocurrency designed and launched by the Wala team.

Prior to that, he co-founded Unbranded Designs, a crowd-sourced furniture design company and built the world's first online furniture design community and, with that community, brought an innovative design approach to some of the world's most prestigious organizations.

He began his career at ZS Associates as a business operations consultant, working in a number of data-heavy roles and cofounding the process improvement practice.

Samer holds master's and bachelor's degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and is a Tauber Institute for Global Operations Fellow. He is also a Six Sigma Green Belt.