Board of Directors and Management Team

Hirander MisraHead of Exchange

Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning 28 years, with successful syndication to investors and substantial exits. He is also the Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group and its climate fintech platform-as-a-service ZERO13, which won the COP 28 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. He is also recognised among the top 100 most influential voices in Fintech on LinkedIn in the UK in 2025.

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, the Arab Monetary Fund’s Arab Green & Sustainable Finance Network (AgreFin), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Summit, the Greentech Festival 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.

Anthony HarropHead of Trading Operations

Tony is also Group CIO of GMEX Group Limited, CEO of GMEX Technologies and MD of GMEX Innovation Limited. Prior to GMEX, Tony led the strategic initiative to realign the technology team and build a ‘Next Generation’ stock exchange at PLUS Markets and launched LiquidityHub a Fixed Income platform to serve the Interest Rate Swaps market. At Evolution Consulting, he built a successful financial services consultancy with over 100 staff and their own software product.

Partners

GMEX Group

GMEX Group (GMEX) offers sustainable digital solutions for the new age of global markets. The firm is a leading global provider of multi-asset exchange trading and post-trade software/software as-a-Service (SaaS) market infrastructure solutions and ‘network of networks’ digital platform services. GMEX addresses end-to-end regulatory and contract environment needs for issuance, trading, clearing and settlement across exchanges and across multiple asset classes including traditional, digital and hybrid assets, including carbon credits and ESG real-world assets. It is the winner of:

Best Global Hybrid Finance FinTech Company’ – 2022
Best Solution for Trading Digital Assets’ – 2023
Most Influential Financial Technology Firms of 2023 – 2023

FinComEco

FinComEco aims to improve food security and economic diversity by providing the most current business and technological solutions tailored for each country whilst providing economic growth opportunities to all participants, from the local smallholder subsistence farmer upwards in a commercial manner. As previously proven with our successful engagement with the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) in Malawi — our solution of leveraging and enhancing the current logistics, warehousing and standards within Africa (and eventually other countries) establishes a fully vitalised agricultural ecosystem efficiently linking supply and demand.

ZERO13

ZERO13, a venture by GMEX, is an automated AI and blockchain-driven international carbon exchange, registry and aggregation hub ecosystem. The ZERO13 Hub provides a Platform-as-a-service, which offers a distributed point of entry for digital issuance, trading and settlement of carbon credits and real-world assets such as ESG securities. ZERO13 Hub connects multiple international carbon exchanges, registries, custodians and ESG project owners globally for supply verification, transparent pricing and real-time settlement using APIs and across blockchains enabled by ZERO13 Chain (‘Pyctor’).