Nofal Ahmad Butt is serving as Director – Business Solutions since 2014. He did his MBA from Institute of Business Administration, University of the Punjab in 1994. Since then he worked in various positions as enjoys a very diversified experience of serving various industries including Capital Markets, Financial Sector, Manufacturing Industries and has also held very diversified portfolios including Management, Finance, IT and Operations. Some of the major achievements include:

- Project Manager for Depository and the Clearing System implemented for Ghana Stock Exchange

- Project Manager for stockbroker and custody management solutions implemented at leading stock brokers in Ghana like Databank Limited, CAL Bank Limited and CAL Brokers Limited

- Appointed as Consultant to GSE Depository Company Limited (Subsidiary of Ghana Stock Exchange), Ghana

- Project Manager for implementing the Share Registrar System at GSE Depository Company Limited

Muhammad Noman Iqbal is working as CTO of the company has more than ten years of professional experience including requirement / specification analysis, design and development of different Web based and client server applications involving diverse technologies and business domains. Hands on experience on leading Databases and successfully completed various migrations projects from legacy to new systems.

• Strong exposure to various financial domains including Capital market, Investment banking, Equity Research, Margin financing, Tele Communications and Smart Tolling Systems.
• Experience to interact with local & foreign clients for on-site requirement Analysis, development, Deployment and trainings.
• Experienced in relational and object modeling, and technical documentation.
• Travelled to different parts of world including Dubai (UAE). Accra (Ghana), Toronto (Canada), Ankara (Turkey) for Training, development, implementation and deployment related tasks.
• As application Developer for ConceptWave Order Care worked on BMW Project, TurkTelekom, VideoTron and Hutchison Telecom

Muhammad Kashif Yousaf, is working as Head of Database Management and Database Design for the company. He has more than 12 years of professional experience in different areas of software development with most recent expertise in Oracle Database 11G, Visual Studio, ASP.Net, Developer 10g, Developer9x, Developer6x, and C/C++.

Involved in dealing with local and international clients, including on-site requirement gathering, designing, implementation, client training and support. Involved in integration design of the software systems. He also has experience in relational and object modeling, and technical documentation.

He implemented Asset Management and Custody Management Systems in Pakistan as well as in Ghana, which also included SWIFT and core banking integrations.

Abbas Ahmed, after serving for two years as Solutions Architect for CONNECTdotNET, he was made partner of the company in late 2019. His role in the company is still as Solution Architect, where his role is that of a CISO and focuses on service security, availability and performance. His recent projects include work on PCI -DSS Level 1 compliance, ISO 27001 Compliance and cost optimization of services by switching to open source technologies like MySQL, Grafana, Prometheus & Libreswan.

He got into computing through electronics, and started his career as a university lecturer with a greater interest in databases and embedded systems. Starting with dBase III Plus, then moving along to FoxPro, MS Access, MS SQL Server and Oracle 6, 7 and 8. In 2000, started using MySQL and just fell in love with it. He had the opportunity to introduce MySQL cluster as a solution in the Telco sector. He also had a chance to work with analytics data stores like InfiniDB and Infobright. He also worked on planning and executing new projects for the Rentalcars.com Database Engineering team. He helped the company expand from a server count of 24 to 3000 plus in 8 years. He was mainly involved with application architects and made recommendations on how we can best implement DBaaS layers for new systems. Most of his new work is centered around microservices.

Syed Ashraf Ali after working as Head of Finance, HR & Admin for the company for almost a year. He was partner of the company in late 2019. He did his MBA, specializing in Finance, from Institute of Business Administration, University of the Punjab in 1994. Though he had been working in the textile sector for his entire professional life from mid to senior management positions. But the textile sector is also very aggressive in delivery his experience proved very valuable to our startup. His professional expertise include Manufacturing, Management, Finance, Quality Assurance Marketing and Operations. He also has international exposure as he travelled to different parts of world including Dubai, Bangladesh, France, Belgium for marketing, business development and customer satisfaction

Viqar Yaqoob is serving as Manager – Database. He did his MCS in Software Engineering from Virtual University, Lahore. He has more than 9 years of working experience in different enterprises, regarding financial applications for Ghana and Pakistan payment gateways and financial market. His major projects are:

• Interpay Africa – A payment gateway in Ghana
• Fundraising Africa – A fundraising project in Ghana
• WealthConnect (Investment Management Services Limited, Ghana)
• AssetConnect (Asset Management Company Limited, Pakistan)

Muhammad Bilal is serving as Manager - API Integrations and Development. He did his BS in Computer Science and received Gold Medal from Bahria Univeristy, Islamabad.

His experience of more than Eight years in multiple Organizations includes working on social media, mobile, Desktop, web applications, IOT services, IBM and AWS cloud services, API Integrations, Framework development and Projects involving Research and Development to meet the customer requirements.His Recent Work Includes

• Payment Framework and JazzCash, EasyPaisa, Visa/Master Payment API integrations
• WooCommerce, OpenCart, Magento Payment Plugins
• Visa/Master Card based Recurring Payments (involving PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliance)
• API Developments and Telco Integrations for Collections/Cashouts/Airtime/Topup and sms services

H.M.Muteen-ul-Haq is serving as Manager – Application Development. He did his MS in Software Project Management from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore. He has more than nine years of working experience in multiple enterprise, social media, mobile and USSD applications for Ghana and Pakistan payment gateways and financial market. His major projects are:

• Interpay Africa – A payment gateway in Ghana
• CMS (Custody Management System) (Ghana)
• WealthConnect (Investment Management Services Limited, Ghana)
• AssetConnect (Asset Management Company Limited, Pakistan)

Farhan Butt is Dev Maintenance Lead for ConnectDotNet. In his role he has the responsibility for developing and maintaining the company's projects.

Farhan has more than 6 years of experience working in multinational organizations. He has expertise in developing projects and their successful execution.

Prior to ConnectDotNet, Farhan has worked with Eworx as a Senior Engineer. Before joining Eworx he worked at CureMD which is a leading EMR provider in Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali has more than 8 years of experience in planning, design, and execution of system testing on a simple to complex implementations enterprise class software. An avid reader of details with a high aptitude towards understanding any business and application requirements Ali is here from the inception till ending delivery of the product.

Ali holds a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore.