Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning 28 years, with successful syndication to investors and substantial exits. He is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group and its climate fintech platform-as-a-service ZERO13, which won the COP28 UAE TechSprint as the best solution for the use of blockchain to scale climate finance. He is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the UK All Party Parliamentary Group report and is also featured in LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. Hirander was also recognised as the Most Influential CEO 2024 – UK (Carbon Credits) by CEO Monthly, a digital magazine published by AI Global Media. Hirander is a regular speaker at high profile events such as COP28 UAE and COP29 Azerbaijan, at Davos during the World Economic Forum annual meeting, Arab Monetary Fund Green & Sustainable Finance Network, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Summit and the Connected Africa Summit hosted by the Government of Kenya. Hirander has also been a TEDx speaker on topics such as “democratisation of the individual, change is the only constant”. Previously he was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Chi-X Europe Limited, instrumental in taking the company from concept to successful launch. At the time of his departure in February 2010, Chi-X Europe was the second largest equities trading venue in Europe, just behind the LSE Group and was subsequently sold to Bats Global Markets (now part of CBOE Global Markets) for $365M.