Ram Chari

Ram is the Board Member & Group Director at WadzPay. The infrastructure WadzPay is developing has application and relevance in the Middle East and Africa context. With that in mind, Ram monitors the Middle East and Africa expansion for the company and provides strategic vision and insights at the board level.

Ram is a self-made entrepreneur with a hands-on strategic value-add approach; his credentials include building and scaling Fintech payments companies. With multi-sector and regional experience with deep Principal-to-Principal engagement internationally, in 2010, he successfully delivered the first Billion Dollar Payments Unicorn in the Middle East.

Ram has over 30 years of diverse experience in Payments, Software Products and Technology with hands-on operating functional roles. He is experienced in operating business in markets – Australia, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey, Taiwan, UAE, USA, and regional exposure to North America, Europe, Middle East Africa and APJ.

He has well-rounded exposure to diverse business sectors as varied as Logistics, Banking, Travel, Financial Services, BPO’s and Software Technology. Over the last ten years, he has developed deep working relationships with regional and global PE Investors in operating and identifying M&A investments and helping Founders/Investors raise Capital for In/Divestment.

This entrepreneur has driven shareholder value creation through Constituency Focus and Board positions delivering on strategic imperatives, robust governance for value maximization, diligently engaged the Founders and Institutional Shareholders to raise funding with the VC, PE Funds and Strategic Investors.