Haseeb Awan is a Pakistani-born Canadian living in the United States who loves to play cricket. He is a serial entrepreneur and successful businessman and has been named among the top 100 influential people in FinTech globally. He has a master’s degree in engineering management from the University of Ottawa. He has also studied Financial Markets at Yale University and holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.

Before efani, Haseeb co-founded Bitaccess, a company that first distributed bitcoin ATMs across over 50 major cities in 15 countries years ago. Like every great success story, however, there are always challenges.

For Haseeb, it wasn’t long before cyberthieves came around. For more than three times, he suffered financial and emotional damage from sim swap attacks. He studied the business of traditional mobile service companies and learnt that the majority of individuals were well-served from a security perspective.

However, for those highly targeted like Haseeb, more needed to be done. So, Haseeb leveraged his experience and network and designed a secure mobile service. As he shared the solution with friends, family and colleagues, the efani community organically grew larger and stronger.