# Ali Hararwala

> Ali Hararwala is the Co-founder and COO of PlutusDefi, looking after Product Development and company operations.

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**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.  
  
An 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.  
  
Ali 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://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) related.  
  
Working 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.  
  
He 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.  
  
He 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)  
  
# Education  
  
1\. St\. Bede's AIHSS  
  
2\. University of Madras  
  
Degree Name: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)  
  
Field of Study: Computer science  
  
Dates attended or expected graduation: 2000 – 2003  
  
3\. Saïd Business School\, University of Oxford  
  
Field of Study: Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme  
  
Dates attended or expected graduation: 2018 – 2018  
  
# Experience  
  
**Sr. Automation Analyst**  
  
Company Name: Oracle Corporation  
  
Dates Employed: Feb 2004 – Sep 2005  
  
Employment Duration: 1 year 8 months  
  
Location: Hyderabad Area, India  
  
Senior Automation Analyst accountable for automating and testing key Oracle Products  
  
• 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.  
  
• Planned and designed the automation framework and created libraries and functions in Winrunner to be used by all automation teams across the organization.  
  
• Wrote test scripts (test cases) from existing test outlines and executed regression tests during the System Test and Certification Test phases.  
  
• Performed smoke, integration, system and regression testing using automated scripts on the environment build, on applied patches and on New Production Releases.  
  
**Business Analyst (Contract)**  
  
Company NameG: oldMoney  
  
Dates Employed: Oct 2011 – Jun 2013  
  
Employment Duration: 1 year 9 months  
  
Location: London, United Kingdom  
  
**Business Consultant**  
  
Company Name: BJSS  
  
Dates Employed: Aug 2013 – Dec 2015  
  
Employment Duration: 2 years 5 months  
  
Location: London, United Kingdom  
  
**Senior Product Owner/Business Consultant (Contract)**  
  
Company Name: Louis Dreyfus Company  
  
Dates Employed: Jan 2016 – Mar 2016  
  
Employment Duration: 3 months  
  
Location: London, United Kingdom  
  
**Director of Product Management**  
  
Company Name: WANCHAIN FOUNDATION LIMITED  
  
Dates Employed: Dec 2017 – Nov 2018  
  
Employment Duration: 1 year  
  
**Globatalent**  
  
Total Duration: 1 year 6 months  
  
**Title:** Head of Products, Partnerships and Innovation  
  
Dates Employed: Jan 2019 – Apr 2019  
  
Employment Duration: 4 months  
  
Location: Madrid Area, Spain  
  
**Title:** Blockchain Advisor  
  
Dates Employed: Nov 2017 – Dec 2018  
  
Location: Madrid Area, Spain  
  
**IMMO Capital**  
  
Total Duration: 1 year 2 months  
  
**Title:** AVP, Product  
  
Dates Employed: Sep 2020 – Present  
  
Location: London, England, United Kingdom  
  
**Title:** Director, Product  
  
Dates Employed: Oct 2019 – Sep 2020[\[6\]](#cite-id-vmweavnb4aq)