Jacob Aruldhas is the CEO and Founder of ECS Fin, a fintech delivering end-to-end transaction processing solutions across payments, post-trade processing and treasury for banks, capital markets firms and corporates global. With close to three decades of experience as an advisor, architect and consultant, he has designed transaction processing solutions for major financial institutions, built ECS Fin's Swift-Certified platform, and advised the industry on interoperability, STP and cloud-based transaction processing. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at Columbia University and a visiting professor at the University of Kerala, and holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Florida.