Shawn currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Basis Bay, where he leads global operations with a distinguished leadership team. Actively engaged with Basis Bay's portfolio companies worldwide, Shawn holds advisory roles for major information technology system integrators and management consulting firms. With over 26 years of experience in senior positions across various industries, Shawn has an extensive background in the entire value chain. His expertise includes IT strategy and operations improvement, digital/product management, and distributed computing, particularly within the financial services sector. Shawn has led Global Centers of Excellence for large multinational corporations, supporting international banks and insurance companies across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In addition to his operational role, Shawn spearheads M&A efforts at Basis Bay, seeking partners with aligned business goals for large-scale projects. His proficiency in executing large-scale implementations is highly regarded across Asia Pacific and global markets. Basis Bay is committed to its mission of being global, premium, and sustainable, investing in firms that align with these values. The company's core principles of integrity, sustainability, and leadership resonate deeply with Shawn, influencing both his personal and professional life. Shawn’s approach to execution is pivotal to Basis Bay’s risk management and innovation strategies. He is a passionate advocate for niche firms aiming for extensive market coverage and encourages young entrepreneurs to prioritize customer experience in their execution strategies.

Arun has worked in the Indian Equity Markets for over 2 decades which provided him a ring side view of the transformation of Indian economy. His last stint was at Alchemy, a boutique equities brokerage firm focused on Institutional and Ultra HNI investors. He was also part of the founding team at a startup before embarking on his journey of curating emerging businesses to bootstrap in his individual capacity. Rich learnt the macro and micro economics from Arun where he shares Arun’s belief that the concept of capitalism is to maximise human potential but the execution of capitalism is to give everyone an opportunity. One of Arun’s favourite statements for Rich is staying curious and being relentless in the quest can help us become world-class at anything. Arun’s domain expertise on multiple industry sectors makes his playbook more interesting for various start-ups to rely on for their digital execution. Arun closely works with multiple government agencies in India on their digital transformation exercise for citizen scale services and he is on the advisory panel for several macro-economic initiatives.

Ramki has been working with some of the best minds in the industry & in government sector across Middle East Africa ,notably the UAE PMO and cabinet Affairs, Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Federal Authority of Government Human Resources (FAHR), Ministry of Education and Emirates Schools Establishment, University of Dubai, CERT-HCT, UAE University, Al Tayer Group, Romana Water and many others. He has been part of exciting transformative initiatives across governments of Africa such as the Office of Auditor General of Kenya, Ministry of ICT in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, National Hospital Insurance Fund, (NHIF), Kenya, Kenya Revenue Authority(KRA), Telkom Kenya and Others. Rich worked closely with Ramki for a large scale billion dollar project execution in MEA and he always looks forward to Ramki’s insights on market landscape and potential to elevate start ups to solve complex challenges. Ramki works actively with start-up eco-system and Emirati Entrepreneurs in their idea validation to business model implementation and closely works with family business as they diversify their portfolios.