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Africa Tech Festival 2024 – The Home of AfricaCom, AfricaTech & AfricaIgnite
Event dates: 11-14 Nov 2024
Exhibition Opening Dates: 12 - 14 Nov 2024Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town

Simit Naik
Director, Commercial & Strategy at nChain
Speaker

Profile

Simit has over 14 years of commercial experience career across financial services and the public sector, holding senior roles in consultancy, strategy, and product across organisations such as Visa, Experian and Logica. Simit joined nChain in 2016, where he has helped to develop the Business Services, Product and Commercial & Strategy teams. In his current role as Director, Commercial & Strategy, Simit is responsible for identifying and shaping key strategic programmes of work across healthcare, central bank digital currency (CBDC), government and financial services, and working with clients across these key sectors to deploy strategic blockchain solutions to address complex business challenges. With a background in payments, banking and financial services, Simit has helped to shape nChain’s strategy around CBDC and digital payments and building the necessary strategic partnerships to support our strategy execution.

Simit holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) in Computer Science from Coventry University.