​Ask Me Anything: Bhuva Shakti

​​Product, Operations, Fundraising Advisor

​📍 Session #30 of the Startup Growth Playbook

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​➡️ This session, Bhuva's guest is: Adnan Haider, Co-Founder of Quantuma.

​​Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Adnan Haider

​How AI Is Transforming Commercial Banking Intelligence

​Banks have more data than ever.

​The challenge is not collecting information. It’s turning information into action.

​🎯 Bhuva Shakti, Fundraising Advisor at Wallet Max, brings a product, operations, and investor-readiness lens shaped by helping fintech and AI companies translate innovation into scalable growth.

​🎯 Adnan Haider, Co-Founder of Quantuma, is building a deal intelligence platform for commercial banking.

​Using deep reasoning agents, Quantuma transforms transaction data, ownership changes, lien activity, and business signals into actionable opportunities for commercial banking teams.

​Before founding Quantuma, Adnan served as SVP of Analytics at Zafin, where he helped build the banking data fabric supporting pricing decisions for more than 30 million customers. He also led Advanced Analytics at IBM Canada and teaches product management at the University of Toronto.

​This Startup Growth Playbook LIVE session focuses on:

​✅ How AI is changing commercial banking workflows

​✅ Turning data into revenue-generating intelligence

​✅ Building trust in deep reasoning systems

​✅ Scaling enterprise AI in regulated industries

​Who should attend?

​➡️ For founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem leaders building in fintech, AI, enterprise software, and financial infrastructure.

​📌 Session #30 of the Startup Growth Playbook Series

​🎙️ LIVE Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Adnan Haider

​🗓️ June 10, 2026 at 3-4 PM ET

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​About Adnan Haider:

​Adnan Haider's expertise spans advanced analytics and fintech product development. Previously, he was SVP of Analytics at Zafin, where he built the banking data fabric that powers pricing for 30M+ customers. Before that, he led Advanced Analytics at IBM Canada.

​He serves on the board of advisors for the University of Toronto's Master of Management Analytics program, where he also teaches product management.

​Quantuma is the deal intelligence platform for commercial banking that gives sales teams new visibility to discover and grow commercial relationships.

​About Wallet Max: 

​Wallet Max is an inclusive global community of corporate executives and venture capitalists with a mission to expand fundraising access for high-growth startups in the technology, AI, fintech, and climate sustainability sectors.

With more than 10 investments directly in impact entrepreneurs thus far, Wallet Max’s network of 2,000 innovators and 60 partners regularly meet in person and virtually throughout the year to mutually exchange connections and drive collective action. Wallet Max ecosystem of events and initiatives are prominent during the New York Fintech Week, the New York Tech Week, and the New York Climate Week every year.

Wallet Max's Planet Positive Podcast is a monthly interview with investors driving impact globally. Aligned with our mission to challenge the status quo, we showcase personal and professional journeys of diverse investors (Angels, VCs, PEs, Family Office, Corporate Venture) looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments. Supporting sustainable innovations is good for people's wellbeing, planet survival, and financial profits.

Learn more about Wallet Max success and 2026 global initiatives: https://getwalletmax.com/climate-forward

​​About Bhuva Shakti:

​Bhuva Shakti (she/her) is the futuristic founder and CEO driving sustainable innovation at Wallet Max, a global community of corporate executives, policy leaders, and venture capital investors expanding fundraising access for high-growth impact startups. With an MBA from Columbia University in New York and as a senior executive director on Wall Street for three decades, Bhuva has managed diverse financial portfolios and launched several digital transformation products for investment banks, capital markets, and payment networks.

​Bhuva’s leadership and risk governance oversight, during the global financial crisis and the pandemic, was pivotal for the success of regulatory compliance and mergers acquisitions at the world's top banks and credit rating institutions. Bhuva is a board director and C-Suite advisor for people and planet friendly businesses, without compromising profits, and a keynote and TEDx speaker advancing economic inclusion and climate-fintech partnerships.

​Bhuva is the USA country director for World Business Angels Investment Forum and the Chief Ethics & Culture Officer for Women in AI worldwide. She leads fundraising strategy and product operations for market expansion and manages investor relations from diligence to investment. Bhuva is the founder of Bhuva’s Impact Global, offering board and enterprise risk advisory services for public and private corporations.