Leadership

Ali Salamat

CEO & Founder

Ali is a technology business executive based in New York, Singapore and Dubai.

Ali founded EkChat and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. 

He founded BillPay, a global billing and payments company, in 2008 and serves as the company’s Chairman. Ali also founded Verified, an online business and product listings platform, that caters for a wide variety of businesses. 

Ali served in product, design, advertising, media, sales, finance, technology, legal and executive leadership roles in several companies prior to launching his own technology companies.

Ali read law at the University of London and graduated top of class from the University of California Berkeley School of Law VC University, a program jointly developed by the UC BerkeleyLaw Startup Faculty and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).  

His 2020-2030 vision is to create and deliver the best social networking, messaging and payments experience to the next generation of mobile users on E.  

Ali’s mission is to make EkChat the best social networking, payments and media company in the world.

Naveen Arya

Chairman & Founder

Naveen is a Director of the Karamchand Group of Companies in India.

The group has a wide portfolio of businesses in the real estate, manufacturing, printing, technology and financial services sectors.

Naveen and his family founded AllOut in India, a manufacturer of mosquito repellents — which became the number one brand in South Asia. The family exited the business when the AllOut brand was sold to SC Johnson in one of the most interesting brand and manufacturing acquisitions in India. 

Naveen is an Investor and Director in Roadzen — an insurance, roadside assistance and vehicle recovery platform for India, China and Europe, which is one of the leading startups in that category globally. He is an Investor and Director in Interflora India, the worlds’ largest floral company and igp.com, India’s leading gifting portal. 

He is also a founding Director of Aryamond Diamonds, a premium synthetic diamond manufacturing company, which is the Karamchand Groups newest venture in the luxury jewellery industry.  

Naveen provides strategy and product development guidance for EkChat in India and serves as the Chairman of the Board.

Naveen believes that EkChat will become the pulse of India and the South Asian diaspora. 

Sirf EkChat (Only EkChat) is how he passionately describes it in Hindi.