Our StoryHARNESSING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE LIVES
EVOLVED MONEY SYSTEMS We help Central Banks provide the most advanced, accessible and safe digital fiat currency for all people.
Looking beyond just the needs of citizens and merchants, we aim to achieve the success of communities and nations as a whole. International impact. An inclusive financial world. Profound change.
We started as a small team with a vision, coming together from various corners in the world of money. Our history in the early days of the dot.com era, the many waves of fintech, platform banking, digital currencies and enterprise blockchain forged our passion for using technology to improve people’s lives. Ultimately, it propelled us to who we are today—creators of the world’s first retail CBDC in production, the Sand Dollar.
We want to change livesSHAPING THE FUTURE OF MONEY
FOR ALL PEOPLE.
Our holistic approach and passion for technology means that we’re always forging innovative new systems that connect people and their money. Everyday people are at the heart of our work. Everything we do is founded on providing easy access to money so that everyone can have financial security and freedom.
Meet Our TeamTHE MOVMINT STARTS HERE
Malavan Balanavaneethan Vice President Engineering
Coder. Architect. Guru. Cricketer.
Malavan is a master full-stack engineer and an expert in designing and implementing national and cross-border digital payments and settlement infrastructure. He brings several cycles of government infrastructure projects implementation and was formerly a lead member of the IBM Asia-Pacific Blockchain practice and the coding magician at the heart of the IBM World Wire project. Malavan led the development and deployment of three critical payment systems in Singapore, including GIRO, PayNow and FAST.
Jay JoeCo-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Engineer. Entrepreneur. Problem-solver. Marksman.
A technology entrepreneur with experience across a wide spectrum of industries, Jay has been at the forefront of innovation since dot.com. Jay has successfully led multiple mandates solving complex problems in the areas of clean energy, transport, security and critical national infrastructure. He has pioneered ground breaking technology solutions for the public sector and spearheaded the implementation of the world’s first retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in production, the Sand Dollar issued by the Central Bank of the Bahamas.
Vinay MohanCo-Founder, Chief Operating Officer
Builder. Philosopher. Intellectual. Culinarian.
Vinay is a management consultant with a track record of delivering transformative projects in financial services and the public sector. In a career marked by pivotal moments in the rise of platform-based financial services and enterprise blockchain technology, Vinay served in key delivery positions at Oracle and KPMG before founding the Asia-Pacific operations of ConsenSys. Vinay was a pioneering participant in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Ubin, as well as wider initiatives to build the Singapore blockchain ecosystem.
John KimCo-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel
Lawyer. Professor. Navigator. DJ.
A former partner at the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and a leader in the firm’s Fintech practice group, John is among the most experienced legal experts on digital currencies, digital assets and the application of blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies. John led the team that won the Central Banking Publication Advisor Of The Year Award for Fintech and Digital Projects (2020). John also teaches at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Allard School of Law.
Stanley YongChief Product Officer
Central Banker. Economist. Technologist. Sailor.
Stanley is the former head of JP Morgan’s wholesale payments product design team for the Onyx business. He also served as Chief Technology Officer of IBM’s global blockchain for financial services, Global head of CBDC for IBM, and the co-Founder of Deloitte’s Southeast Asia Blockchain Centre of Excellence. Stanley spent a decade within Singapore’s central bank as an economist studying and formulating strategies for retail e-payments adoption, currency supply models, and directing the Office for Innovation Acceleration which incubated Project Ubin, and catalysed other fintech industry projects.
Ruby ChengSoftware Engineer and QA Manager
Engineer. Observer. Makeup Lover.
Ruby is a software engineer and QA manager who likes to break things. From an early age, Ruby showed a special aptitude for discord and carnage, all in service of a better understanding how things work. Her penchant for destruction had originally led her to study electrical engineering as a teenager, but she quickly found that endless hours of designing boards and soldering ruined her pretty nails. Finding that really, really unacceptable, Ruby tried her hand at programming and wrote her first “Hello Word!!” Visual Basic console application and never looked back. Today, she is happily breaking apart and reimagining code and is awesome at it. For Ruby, understanding how things break is the first step in making sure something will work and it is her singular focus on wreckage and mayhem that helps Movmint create the best solutions on Earth.
Meet Our Advisors
Bluford H. Putnam, PhD
Bluford H. Putnam, PhD (“Blu”) is the Chief Economist and Managing Director for CME Group, the largest operator of futures and options exchanges in the world, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the New York Mercantile Exchange. He is a former central banker with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as experience with Chase Manhattan Bank in the private sector. Blu’s professional focus spans Bayesian economics, central banking, investment banking and asset management. He has authored seven books on international finance and has also written many academic and business press articles, including for The American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, among many others. Blu’s work at Movmint provides insights into the macroeconomic impacts of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), as well as contributing to the design of unique CBDC native products and services.
Amit Mital
Amit Mital has over three decades of experience as a technologist, investor and entrepreneur. He was appointed by President Biden to the National Security Council (NSC) as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, focusing on US strategy and policy in relation to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), critical infrastructure security, AI and quantum computing. Amit was formerly the CTO, Executive Vice President and General Manager at world-renowned cybersecurity company Symantec Corporation, where he was responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and core security technology. Amit is also a twenty-year veteran of Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President and led numerous innovations and strategic product development initiatives. Amit holds 43 patents and is an innovator in several technologies including machine learning and high-scale cloud services. He has a M.S. in Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Amit’s work at Movmint guides our global CBDC strategy, our technology development roadmap and assists our engagement with central banks and governments around the world.