Mark Makdad


Mark co-founded Moneytree in 2012, and leads Moneytree’s permission-based financial data portability platform, Moneytree LINK.
As a founding director of the Fintech Association of Japan, Mark also has been at the forefront Open Banking regulatory framework changes in Japan.

Fluent in Japanese, Mark’s professional career began in Tokyo over a decade ago,
when he built the Contract Staffing division at en World, a large HR consultancy in Tokyo.
Mark is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and enjoys still being hands-on with code.