{"id":"ali-hararwala","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Ali Hararwala","content":"**Ali Hararwala** is the Co-founder and COO of PlutusDefi, looking after Product Development and company operations. His previous background has been over a decade in Management consulting, across multiple industries.  \n  \nAn experienced and versatile global Business transformation leader with over 15 years in management consulting and product management in anything Digital and Blockchain related across multiple industries.  \n  \nAli Hararwala is Co-founder of PlutusDeFi, Disrupting PropTech. Work in Product Management with over 15 years experience in Business Transformation in anything Digital and [Blockchain](https://beta.everipedia.org/wiki/blockchain) related.  \n  \nWorking knowledge gained in Real estate, Blockchain, Commodities (Precious Metal, Cotton and Oil Markets), Financial Services, Digital transformation, Public Sector, New Media, Supply chain, and E-commerce.  \n  \nHe worked (volunteer experience) with residents of multiple villages in the Tsavo West region of Kenya to construct chicken co-ops in order to kick-start a chicken business in order to provide for themselves and their families. Most of these villagers were ex-poachers and they had given this up to reduce risk to themselves and for animal conservation.  \n  \nHe has helped (volunteer experience) in re-building of a derelict nursery in the village so that it can be expanded for students who want to study higher grades and also so that they could avoid walking miles to a nearby village.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-9xzgtvv2sg9)[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-eiwj8cv4sou)[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-m0k0g6ifvas)[\\[4\\]](#cite-id-84n54694kb9)[\\[5\\]](#cite-id-f5mtbv9cgib)  \n  \n# Education  \n  \n1\\. St\\. Bede's AIHSS  \n  \n2\\. University of Madras  \n  \nDegree Name: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)  \n  \nField of Study: Computer science  \n  \nDates attended or expected graduation: 2000 – 2003  \n  \n3\\. Saïd Business School\\, University of Oxford  \n  \nField of Study: Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme  \n  \nDates attended or expected graduation: 2018 – 2018  \n  \n# Experience  \n  \n**Sr. Automation Analyst**  \n  \nCompany Name: Oracle Corporation  \n  \nDates Employed: Feb 2004 – Sep 2005  \n  \nEmployment Duration: 1 year 8 months  \n  \nLocation: Hyderabad Area, India  \n  \nSenior Automation Analyst accountable for automating and testing key Oracle Products  \n  \n• Led the first functional automated testing team for the Oracle 11i e-business suite for the Purchase Order, iProcurement and Sourcing module resulting in about 40% reduction in overall testing effort.  \n  \n• Planned and designed the automation framework and created libraries and functions in Winrunner to be used by all automation teams across the organization.  \n  \n• Wrote test scripts (test cases) from existing test outlines and executed regression tests during the System Test and Certification Test phases.  \n  \n• Performed smoke, integration, system and regression testing using automated scripts on the environment build, on applied patches and on New Production Releases.  \n  \n**Business Analyst (Contract)**  \n  \nCompany NameG: oldMoney  \n  \nDates Employed: Oct 2011 – Jun 2013  \n  \nEmployment Duration: 1 year 9 months  \n  \nLocation: London, United Kingdom  \n  \n**Business Consultant**  \n  \nCompany Name: BJSS  \n  \nDates Employed: Aug 2013 – Dec 2015  \n  \nEmployment Duration: 2 years 5 months  \n  \nLocation: London, United Kingdom  \n  \n**Senior Product Owner/Business Consultant (Contract)**  \n  \nCompany Name: Louis Dreyfus Company  \n  \nDates Employed: Jan 2016 – Mar 2016  \n  \nEmployment Duration: 3 months  \n  \nLocation: London, United Kingdom  \n  \n**Director of Product Management**  \n  \nCompany Name: WANCHAIN FOUNDATION LIMITED  \n  \nDates Employed: Dec 2017 – Nov 2018  \n  \nEmployment Duration: 1 year  \n  \n**Globatalent**  \n  \nTotal Duration: 1 year 6 months  \n  \n**Title:** Head of Products, Partnerships and Innovation  \n  \nDates Employed: Jan 2019 – Apr 2019  \n  \nEmployment Duration: 4 months  \n  \nLocation: Madrid Area, Spain  \n  \n**Title:** Blockchain Advisor  \n  \nDates Employed: Nov 2017 – Dec 2018  \n  \nLocation: Madrid Area, Spain  \n  \n**IMMO Capital**  \n  \nTotal Duration: 1 year 2 months  \n  \n**Title:** AVP, Product  \n  \nDates Employed: Sep 2020 – Present  \n  \nLocation: London, England, United Kingdom  \n  \n**Title:** Director, Product  \n  \nDates Employed: Oct 2019 – Sep 2020[\\[6\\]](#cite-id-vmweavnb4aq)","summary":"Ali Hararwala is the Co-founder and COO of PlutusDefi, looking after Product Development and company operations.","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founders"}],"metadata":[{"id":"page-type","value":"generic"},{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"9xzgtvv2sg9\",\"url\":\"http://alihararwala.com/\",\"description\":\" 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