SALT Partners

An avid Arsenal football fan, Loney has grown multi-million dollar businesses and is excited about helping entrepreneurs grow their ventures.

Loney Antony has grown businesses from inception to multi-million dollar businesses in terms of revenue and valuation. His skills of customer management, organizing people, setting up funding and managing operations are evident from the success of the three large organizations that he headed. NCR, Euronet and Prizm Payments (now Hitachi Payment Services) are testament to his 32 years of experience in the financial services industry. Loney represents the customer voice in any company and is available 24×7 for a customer call, a customer discussion or a customer issue.

Loney is the Managing Director of Hitachi Payment Services, which he launched as Prizm Payments in 2008, and successfully steered to the top as India’s leading payment services firm.

Prior to that, Loney was the Managing Director of Euronet Worldwide Services India Pvt Ltd (Euronet India), which he started in xxxx as a 100% owned subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide. He took Euronet India forward to become the largest company providing outsourced ATM services. He also has to his credit the development of the largest multilateral ATM shared network called Cashnet.

Prior to Euronet India, Loney was the Managing Director of NCR India, one of the world’s leading ATM manufacturers, where he grew the business from a humble base of 100 ATMs to almost 7,000 ATMs. Prior to his role in NCR, Loney held senior positions in DEC India, ABB and PriceWaterhouse. By training, Loney is a Chartered Accountant. After working hours, he is an avid football fan and the man who keeps the party going.

A history buff, Shyam is a strategic thinker and focused on your future and the value creation potential of your enterprise.

Shyam Sunder’s expertise stems from his keen understanding of history – which is that history repeats itself and that one must learn from our past. His unique balance of thinking of the past, present and future of an enterprise in product, funding, operations, legal and strategy has been the key ingredient to why the companies he has worked with and worked for have been so successful.

Before co-founding Prizm Payments, now Hitachi Payment Services, Shyam was the Regional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Euronet Asia Pacific. Along with Loney Antony, he co-founded the Euronet India business. Prior to that, he held regional finance responsibilities with NCR Asia Pacific for over five years. Earlier, Shyam was based in Jakarta where he was the Vice President of Finance for the Sinarmas Group in Indonesia, and prior to that he worked with Citibank, India. A Chartered Accountant by background, Shyam brings over 27 years of experience to the startup world. After office hours are meant for …..?

Rajesh likes doodling as he listens to his customers. The doodling often ends up as a big idea that produces the results his customers dream of.

Rajesh Patel is passionate about building high performance teams. He drives product development, invention and people development at Powerweave, which he co-founded in 2008, as one more success along a 25-year serial entrepreneurial journey.

Rajesh’s latest venture Powerweave is a powerhouse in the now popular “marketplace” business. Built on a foundation of cutting edge technology, it powers some of the largest market places used by Fortune 100 companies in the world. A member of the global business village, Rajesh’s love for technology translates into a strategic approach to scaling up great ideas. (need some more stuff).

When not working, Rajesh can be found solving cryptic crosswords and watching rugby.

Artist, cyclist, golfer — Jayant brings action as well as strong analytical thinking to doing business in India and the APAC region.

Jayant D’Mello’s skills lie in his unique ability to synthesize a complex issue into simple ideas that can be understood in a presentation, a proposal or while tackling a complex problem. His ability to package an idea and to develop it into a proposition that can be taken to market has been leveraged successfully many times in the companies he has worked in.
Based in Singapore, Jayant looks after the International Business of Hitachi Payments and is an investing partner in SALT. He also heads the Product and Marketing functions at Hitachi Payment Services. In his earlier role, he was Director – Sales & Marketing at Hitachi Payment Services.

Before joining Hitachi Payment Services, Jayant was the Chief Executive Officer of Euronet India and the VP of Business Development for Euronet Asia Pacific. Prior to his stint as CEO Euronet India, he was based in Singapore and responsible for Business Development for Euronet Asia Pacific. He also managed the global relationship for Standard Chartered Bank.

Prior to Euronet, Jayant was co-founder of a telecommunications start-up for five years and prior to that was the Area Solution Team Leader for ATMs in NCR South East Asia. Prior to NCR, Jayant spent time with ICICI, Standard Chartered Bank and Citicorp Information Technology Industries Limited (CITIL).

A B.Sc Tech (University of Bombay) graduate, Jayant believes in staying active through sports.