summary: Ali Hararwala is the Co-founder and COO of PlutusDefi, looking after Product Development and company operations.
content: Ali Hararwala is the Co-founder and COO of PlutusDefi, looking after Product Development and company operations. His previous background has been over a decade in Management consulting, across multiple industries. An experienced and versatile global Business transformation leader with over 15 years in management consulting and product management in anything Digital and Blockchain related across multiple industries. Ali Hararwala is Co-founder of PlutusDeFi, Disrupting PropTech. Work in Product Management with over 15 years experience in Business Transformation in anything Digital and Blockchain related. Working knowledge gained in Real estate, Blockchain, Commodities (Precious Metal, Cotton and Oil Markets), Financial Services, Digital transformation, Public Sector, New Media, Supply chain, and E-commerce. He worked (volunteer experience) with residents of multiple villages in the Tsavo West region of Kenya to construct chicken co-ops in order to kick-start a chicken business in order to provide for themselves and their families. Most of these villagers were ex-poachers and they had given this up to reduce risk to themselves and for animal conservation. He has helped (volunteer experience) in re-building of a derelict nursery in the village so that it can be expanded for students who want to study higher grades and also so that they could avoid walking miles to a nearby village. Education 1\. St\. Bede's AIHSS 2\. University of Madras Degree Name: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Field of Study: Computer science Dates attended or expected graduation: 2000 – 2003 3\. Saïd Business School\, University of Oxford Field of Study: Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme Dates attended or expected graduation: 2018 – 2018 Experience Sr. Automation Analyst Company Name: Oracle Corporation Dates Employed: Feb 2004 – Sep 2005 Employment Duration: 1 year 8 months Location: Hyderabad Area, India Senior Automation Analyst accountable for automating and testing key Oracle Products • Led the first functional automated testing team for the Oracle 11i e-business suite for the Purchase Order, iProcurement and Sourcing module resulting in about 40% reduction in overall testing effort. • Planned and designed the automation framework and created libraries and functions in Winrunner to be used by all automation teams across the organization. • Wrote test scripts (test cases) from existing test outlines and executed regression tests during the System Test and Certification Test phases. • Performed smoke, integration, system and regression testing using automated scripts on the environment build, on applied patches and on New Production Releases. Business Analyst (Contract) Company NameG: oldMoney Dates Employed: Oct 2011 – Jun 2013 Employment Duration: 1 year 9 months Location: London, United Kingdom Business Consultant Company Name: BJSS Dates Employed: Aug 2013 – Dec 2015 Employment Duration: 2 years 5 months Location: London, United Kingdom Senior Product Owner/Business Consultant (Contract) Company Name: Louis Dreyfus Company Dates Employed: Jan 2016 – Mar 2016 Employment Duration: 3 months Location: London, United Kingdom Director of Product Management Company Name: WANCHAIN FOUNDATION LIMITED Dates Employed: Dec 2017 – Nov 2018 Employment Duration: 1 year Globatalent Total Duration: 1 year 6 months Title: Head of Products, Partnerships and Innovation Dates Employed: Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 Employment Duration: 4 months Location: Madrid Area, Spain Title: Blockchain Advisor Dates Employed: Nov 2017 – Dec 2018 Location: Madrid Area, Spain IMMO Capital Total Duration: 1 year 2 months Title: AVP, Product Dates Employed: Sep 2020 – Present Location: London, England, United Kingdom Title: Director, Product Dates Employed: Oct 2019 – Sep 2020