Our Management Team
Our Management Team
Ummair has over 23 years of experience working in and managing various businesses. He started off as accountant for a London-based buying group where he contributed towards the Bacstel-IP platform from an industry perspective in early 2000.
Ummair started Direct Debit System LLC in UAE in 2017, with the innovative idea that a new direct debit service in the UAE must be aggregated & that APIs must be standardised. The fintech was listed in top 24 most innovative start-ups in the UAE Government-run Innovation Fund, competing against over 800 competing pitches from around the world
Ummair Butt
Chief Executive Officer
Ummair Butt
Chief Executive Officer
Ummair has over 23 years of experience working in and managing various businesses. He started off as accountant for a London-based buying group where he contributed towards the Bacstel-IP platform from an industry perspective in early 2000.
Ummair started Direct Debit System LLC in UAE in 2017, with the innovative idea that a new direct debit service in the UAE must be aggregated & that APIs must be standardised. The fintech was listed in top 24 most innovative start-ups in the UAE Government-run Innovation Fund, competing against over 800 competing pitches from around the world
Imdad Sarwar
Chief Technical Officer
Imdad has some 17 years of experience in Software Development, System Integrations and Information Security, which are all for the Banking and Financial sector.
At Direct Debit System FZ LLC, working with the UAE’S Central Bank, he played a key role as Software Architect and System Integration Specialist to bring up the first Direct Debit Marketplace that’s hosted on Dubai’s Government Private Cloud and integrates with the country’s identity provider UAEPASS to digitally sign direct debit mandates.
He also undertook the first system integration project for the company that was to plug in the native, uaedds scheme in to the SAP system for UAE’s reputed corporation Esa Saleh Al Gurg’s private cloud infrastructure.
He has strong background in both Java and .NET frameworks the prominent technologies to develop ICT Solutions. Currently, leading a team of software engineers, he is working with full focus on the latest and emerging payment technologies in Banking & FinTech industry.
Imdad Sarwar
Chief Technical Officer
Imdad has some 17 years of experience in Software Development, System Integrations and Information Security, which are all for the Banking and Financial sector.
At Direct Debit System FZ LLC, working with the UAE’S Central Bank, he played a key role as Software Architect and System Integration Specialist to bring up the first Direct Debit Marketplace that’s hosted on Dubai’s Government Private Cloud and integrates with the country’s identity provider UAEPASS to digitally sign direct debit mandates.
He also undertook the first system integration project for the company that was to plug in the native, uaedds scheme in to the SAP system for UAE’s reputed corporation Esa Saleh Al Gurg’s private cloud infrastructure.
He has strong background in both Java and .NET frameworks the prominent technologies to develop ICT Solutions. Currently, leading a team of software engineers, he is working with full focus on the latest and emerging payment technologies in Banking & FinTech industry.
Alistair is a highly experienced CIO commanding over 20 years’ experience in leading major architectural design across Banking, specialising in Payments.
Banking Clients include Deutsche Bank, UBS, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group as well as regulatory interaction with the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority.
Architecture experience includes leading the New Payments Architecture design for Pay.UK, establishing and leading architecture functions from greenfield to execution, front to back functional design, strategic technology roadmaps, end to end process transformation.
Alistair Davis
Chief Information Officer
Alistair Davis
Chief Information Officer
Alistair is a highly experienced CIO commanding over 20 years’ experience in leading major architectural design across Banking, specialising in Payments.
Banking Clients include Deutsche Bank, UBS, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group as well as regulatory interaction with the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority.
Architecture experience includes leading the New Payments Architecture design for Pay.UK, establishing and leading architecture functions from greenfield to execution, front to back functional design, strategic technology roadmaps, end to end process transformation.