Arjun is Partner & Global Co-Head of Fintech with Arthur D. Little’s Financial Services Practice. His areas of focus include Fintech, Payments, Digital Assets, Embedded Finance, Application of Emerging Technologies and Emergence of New Business Models within the Financial Services Sector in the MEA region and beyond.
He is actively involved across the Tech Start-Up ecosystem – as a passive investor, an advisory board member and as a commentator on the rapidly evolving scene.
Arjun is also a podcast host of a show called – ‘Couchonomics with Arjun’. He is also an author of a weekly newsletter on LinkedIn called – ‘Couchonomics Crunch’ and a Creator of a Weekly News Reel on Payments called ‘Couchonomics Reel’. All of these are not-for-profit initiatives from Arjun with a mission to share with the wider audience a viewpoint on how the Financial Services Sector is evolving. He was recognised by LinkedIn as Top Voice of the region in 2020.
He was previously the Executive Vice President – Cards and Payments at the Al-Futtaim Group Company (one of the largest UAE HQ conglomerates), where he led the Payments & Fintech solutions and innovation organization across the Group’s core markets in MEA and APAC. Prior to Al-Futtaim, Arjun held senior roles in Management Consulting, Private Equity, Insurance and the Financial Services sector with PA Consulting (owned at that time by the Carlyle Group), AXA, Marconi and GE Capital.