Salim Dhanani

CEO & Co-Founder
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Salim Dhanani is CEO and Co-Founder of Pave Bank, a digital bank built for programmable money and regulated digital assets. He has held this role since January 2023. At Pave Bank, he participates in senior industry forums on digital assets, having spoken at the Singapore Fintech Festival on how forward-looking institutions are managing risks and opportunities in digital money, and at Point Zero Forum on the role of stablecoins in the future monetary system. Pave Bank received a Series A investment from Accel in 2025, with co-founders Simon Vans-Colina and Dmitry Bocharov.

Prior to Pave Bank, Dhanani co-founded and served as CEO of BigPay, a Southeast Asian neobank that raised over US$165 million in capital and reached 1.3 million users. Before BigPay, he led the EMEA division of Carta Worldwide, a digital payments platform, a role he held from January 2015 to May 2017, overlapping with the early months of BigPay. He also worked for the World Bank Group in South America. Dhanani is an angel investor in fintech and Web3 through Thurloe Partners.

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