IQ brings together professionals with extensive experience in institutional finance, fixed-income markets, financial technology, digital assets, and secure infrastructure.
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FOUNDER & CEOKhem Sattaur
With more than 17 years at BNY, Khem led market data supporting the largest U.S. tri-party repo program during and after the 2008 financial crisis. His experience includes securities evaluations, collateral valuation and market-data quality at a time when defensible prices and reliable information were critical to major financial institutions.
He worked closely with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on market-data and benchmark initiatives supporting greater transparency and insight in U.S. funding markets. He also managed AI/ML predictors and indicators for global markets, helped introduce Shari’ah-compliant indices into tri-party repo, and worked to ensure that sukuk could be fully supported in global tri-party infrastructure.
He also led important companywide digital transformation initiatives across market-data and financial-technology functions.
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CO-FOUNDER · CLIENT & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRSKhalid Almannai
Qatari commercial leader with deep regional relationships and business-development experience at Teyseer Group. His background combines finance, entrepreneurship and institutional engagement.
Studied Islamic and sustainable finance at HBKU and finance and entrepreneurship at Qatar University.
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CO-FOUNDER · DIGITAL ASSETSMohideen Abdul Khader
Executive Director at Transcend with expertise in digital assets, blockchain, collateral management and capital-markets infrastructure. Previously developed large-scale collateral optimization capabilities at BNY.
Brings specialist experience spanning institutional operations, financial technology and evolving digital-asset markets.
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CO-FOUNDER · PEOPLE & LEARNINGDr Salma Waly
Educator and EdTech leader with experience across the United States and the Gulf. Her background encompasses teaching, educational leadership, people operations and organizational development.
At IQ, she is responsible for people and learning, supporting a high-performing, multidisciplinary team.
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COMMERCIAL, SALES & MARKETINGJP Donleavy
Former Managing Director at BNY with nearly 19 years of experience across New York and Dublin. Led major institutional initiatives, including an early multi-agent AI capability deployed into production.
Combines financial-industry leadership, product commercialization and experience delivering work under demanding regulatory standards.
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FOUNDING ENGINEER · PLATFORM & AIZeina El Mofty
Software engineer specializing in backend systems, AI-enabled platforms and data infrastructure. Her experience includes backend services, AI-platform analytics and automated workflows.
Computer Engineering graduate with honors, with further machine-learning training through Stanford Online and DeepLearning.AI.
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FRACTIONAL CTO · SECURITY & INFRASTRUCTUREMohamed Juned
Technology and security leader with more than 20 years of experience in secure IT infrastructure. Former Senior System Engineer at Lockheed Martin, where he led an engineering team.
Has designed secure networks and data-center infrastructure in the US and Saudi Arabia; credentials include PMP, CompTIA Security+, Cisco CCNP and Microsoft Azure certification.
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