Khalil Alami — Founder

Khalil Alami is the founder and CEO of the award-winning and leading online payment gateway company Telr with more than 24 years of proven leadership experience within the financial services, fintech, as well as the payments and card industries across the United States, UAE, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia Under Khalil's leadership, Telr has achieved numerous accolades, including being listed among Forbes Top 30 Fintech Companies in 2023, winning the "Payment Gateway of the Year Award" by Entrepreneur Middle East, and winning the Car24 Outliers Challenge by Hub71 Outliers Challenge. Khalil himself has been recognized as one of the Top 20 Performing CEOs in the MENA region by Unlock Media. A well-acknowledged and globally respected industry expert, a startup mentor, and an advocate for financial education, Khalil has built multiple multi-million-dollar organizations by leveraging in-depth knowledge on international payments architecture, card processing and settlement, network security, the four-party system, as well as electronic and mobile payments. He is also a member of the Arab Monetary Fund’s (AMF) Regional Fintech Working Group, and previously was a board member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association (YEA) in Jordan. As the founder and CEO of Telr, Khalil Alami has built up the talent, operations, processes, and tech at the company, following which he closed a $15 million funding round to grow the company into one of the Top 3 online payment gateways in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Through Telr, Khalil has enabled merchants - including startups, SMEs, government bodies, and large corporates - to accept payments online through a proprietary, highly customizable, and extremely secure payment gateway offering. He is passionate about personalizing and customizing customer experiences; paying attention to how merchants are onboarded; making pricing structures viable; strengthening consumer touchpoints across e-commerce and social commerce; as well as maintaining people’s safety and security across all financial services transactions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in payment systems and financial services.

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Experience: 25 yrs 10 mos