Dr. Azam Pasha is Co-Founder and CEO of Maalexi, a pioneering agri-trade fintech building the world's first regulated real-world asset agricultural exchange, MAATEX, to modernize cross-border food and agricultural trade.

Dr. Pasha brings over 25 years of cross-industry leadership spanning global supply chains, trade finance, and digital infrastructure, with advanced studies at Stanford, Wharton, Harvard, and a doctorate in applied management sciences from SDA Bocconi.

He has designed sovereign-level economic and trade clusters for governments and financial institutions, and holds 3 published patents with the USPTO with 3 more under review, reflecting his commitment to translating academic research into scalable market systems.

Prior to Maalexi, Dr. Pasha advised global consultancies such as McKinsey and Deloitte on supply chain finance, and has deep expertise in commodity trading across public exchanges and the conceptualization of hybrid CeFi-DeFi market infrastructures.

Maalexi has executed 4,000+ smart contracts across four markets (UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, and the US), achieved 70% repeat customers, and raised over $9.6M in funding from investors including Tawuniya, Global Ventures, and Citi.