We are a small and nimble team that enables collaboration and innovation among our users, volunteers, and partners across our global community.Management Team
Edward Cable
Ed oversees the initiative, guiding the day to day operations of the community and the growth of the ecosystem. He champions our vision to new members worldwide and ensures our users, partners, and contributors can effectively collaborate.
Our board gives us the foresight and discipline to envision the future while keeping pace with current technology trends faced by the financial inclusion sector.Board of Directors
Allison Baller
Allison Baller serves as Vice President and Head of Industry Readiness for the FedNow Service, a near real-time payment and settlement service under development by the Federal Reserve Banks to support instant payments in the United States.
Zaheda Bhorat
Zaheda Bhorat is the head of open source strategy at AWS, where she also leads the open source program office. A computer scientist, Zaheda is a long-time active contributor to open source and open standards communities. She advises Mifos on open source, community development and organisational change.
Min Tha Gyaw
Min is a leader in inclusive fintech with nearly two decades of experience in banking, credit analytics, and payments. He is currently helping to champion inclusive instant payment systems globally as Chief Strategy Officer of ThitsaWorks.
Shashi Raghunandan
Shashi brings more than 20 years of payments and financial services background in developing and developed markets to Mifos and is driving adoption of digital public infrastructure to streamline G2P payments across the public sector. Shashi is currently the founder and CEO of Oaken, a B2B SaaS platform on a mission to expand farmland resources and access.
Michael Vorburger
Michael brings to the Mifos board
his Java and core banking expertise along with leadership in guiding upstream development in open source communities as a decade-long volunteer to the Mifos Initiative and the lead maintainer of the Apache Fineract platform. He advises on maintaining a healthy contribution model for the community and guiding the technical vision.
Michael has held the roles of Chief Architect, Team Lead, or Head of Engineering in primarily Java-based enterprise software solutions at companies including Temenos, Red Hat, and currently Google. A recognized Java/J2EE/JDO expert, he co-authored the J2EE book "Core Java Data Objects".
Edward Cable
James Dailey
James, the original founder behind the Mifos project, provides a critical and discerning viewpoint and strategic insight from his well-rounded expertise in financial inclusion, ICT4D, MIS, and non-profit management.
Mifos intersects many sectors – financial inclusion, open source technology, fintech, and cloud computing. We are lucky to call upon the visionary thinking, critical insight, industry expertise of a team of business and technical advisors who help us stay at the forefront of them all.Advisors
Shashi Raghunandan
Shashi brings 18+ years of payments and financial services background in developing and developed markets to Mifos. His work has encompassed a range of payment domains including remittances, disbursements, mobile money and card-based payments. He is passionate about digital rails that drives social change and working across both public and private sector to deliver impact.
Marie Valdez
Marie is a leader in inclusive fintech possessing an immense body of practical knowledge in helping organizations achieve operational excellence and maximize social performance from their technology investments. Marie has more than 25 years of experience in advising, designing, and implementing holistic solutions for businesses and non-profits in the US, Asia, and Africa. She helps ensure we have a holistic approach to delivering and supporting our open source platform and advises on sustainability of our initiative and fintechs in our ecosystem.
Deepa Prahalad
Deepa Prahalad is an author and innovation consultant. She has worked with start-ups and large multinationals, and co-authored the book, Predictable Magic: Unleash The Power of Design Strategy To Transform Your Business, which was selected by Fast Company as one of the “Best Design Books of the Year”.
Vincent Alimi
Ali Hussein Kassim
Ali is a true visionary in the fintech world and will use his expertise and critical insight into the sector will help shape the ongoing product and community development strategy and advance our sustainability endeavors. Ali wears many hats across the African fintech landscape and will help our ecosystem grow and establish a stronger foothold for Mifos across the African fintech market.
Bryan Barnett
Want to lead your local Mifos community? Start or join a Mifos Chapter! Mifos Chapters are volunteer-driven groups that promote technology-enabled financial inclusion and empower their local communities to use, collaborate, build, and grow the Mifos X platform together.Local Mifos Chapters
