Hirander Misra, Founder and CEO of GMEX Group and ZERO13 & Asad Sultan, CEO of Verdana

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COP28, Bonn Climate Conference…. Global collective efforts for climate change are rapidly gaining traction. Dinis Guarda interviews Hirander Misra, CEO of ZERO13 which is a marketplace aggregation solution for carbon credits as well as ESG real-world assets, and Asad Sultan, CEO of Verdana and its subsidiary EcoConsortium, Asia-Pacific’s first digital carbon registry. The experts discuss the urgent need for end-to-end digital connectivity in the carbon eco-system for transparency, efficiency and scalability.
Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group and ZERO13
Hirander Misra is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group, a company that offers innovative solutions for the creation & operation of electronic exchanges and post-trading services and the CEO of ZERO13, part of the GMEX Group and a regulated digital exchange (SECDEX) and marketplace aggregation solution for carbon credits as well as ESG real-world assets.
In collaboration with Verdana and EcoConsortium, Zero13 offers turn-key digitalization across the carbon marketplace vertical. Given the size of this market ($12b today and growing parabolically), this is potentially a very valuable market proposition.
Hirander is very active in ESG, trading and in the digital assets sectors, bein also the Founder & Co-Chairman of FinComEco, a fully integrated Financial & Commodities Ecosystem providing services to help improve the livelihoods of Sub-Saharan African farmers using blockchain.
Hirander was one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the All Party Parliamentary Group 2018 report on the UK Blockchain industry. He is also on LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. He is featured in the Financial Technologist 2019 list of the 50 most game-changing founders of FinTech companies.
Learn more about Hirander Misra on https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/wiki/hirander-misra
Learn more about ZERO13 on https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/wiki/zero-13
Learn more about GMEX Group on https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/wiki/gmex-group
Asad Sultan, CEO of Verdana
Asad Sultan is a finance industry veteran CEO of EcoConsortium, a pioneering venture jointly established by Verdana and EcoRegistry, and the first digital carbon registry in the Asia-Pacific, with a function for digital measuring, reporting and verification (dMRV) embedded in the platform. He is also the founder and CEO of Verdana, a SaaS Platform and end-to-end automation dMRV and asset management solution that can be used to assess, validate, and certify carbon footprint data and analytics.
In parallel, he is an advisor to ZERO13, a regulated digital exchange (SECDEX) and marketplace aggregation solution for carbon credits as well as ESG real-world assets.
With more than 25 years of experience in the investment banking industry, Asad is also the CEO of Deutsche Malayan Ventures since 2019, a company that provides cross-border advisory services for investment and execution of high-value projects in Malaysia and the CEO of KL Tech City, a venture studio investing in tech industry startups.
Learn more about Asad Sultan on https://openbusinesscouncil.org/wiki/asad-sultan
Learn more about Verdana on https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/wiki/verdana
Learn more about EcoConsortium on https://www.openbusinesscounc

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