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Bob Bagga

CEO and President

Bob Bagga is the Chief Executive Officer and President of BizXchange and is recognized internationally for his accomplishments in the barter industry.

Over the last 17 years, Bagga has built a number of successful trade networks, including his first company, Barter Business Exchange, which he founded at age 22 in Toronto. Starting with less than $10,000 in capital, BBE was one of the largest and fastest-growing exchanges, with more than $60 million in annual trade transactions. It was then taken public as U-barter.com and sold in 2000 to Network Commerce for $45 million. In January 2002, Bagga co-founded BizXchange which grew by 303% that year alone.

Bagga has been a member of International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA) since 1992 and served on its board as Vice President until 2006. He helped develop its Universal Currency, allowing for international trade to be possible between exchange companies. He is a Certified Trade Broker (CTB), the highest accreditation within the barter industry, as well as a member of the National Association of Trade Exchanges (NATE) and on the Board of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). Bagga has received national and international awards recognizing his contributions to the barter industry, including IRTA’s Outstanding Achievement Award and two Outstanding Achievement Awards from NATE. He has been featured in numerous trade publications, including The Financial Post, CBC Venture, Chartered Accountants Magazine, The Economist, as well as recognized as a top business leader in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. The US government granted Bagga his American Green Card on a “0″ status visa in recognition of him being a global expert on barter.

Chris Haddawy

COO

Chris Haddawy is Chief Operations Officer of BizXchange and has been an integral part of the barter industry for more than 24 years.

Prior to co-founding BizXchange, Haddawy held senior positions with a wide range of barter organizations. Starting out in the barter business right out of college as a straight-commission sales person, he quickly rose to the position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Bay Area and Hawaii Barter Exchange. In 1995, Haddawy founded Barter Business Network and as its President built the company into one of the United States’ top barter networks, with offices in the SF Bay Area, Reno, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas. In 1999, Haddawy sold the company to internet startup BarterTrust.com. He worked with the founding team at BarterTrust to write the business plan, identify acquisition targets and write functional specs for the online trading platform. He then worked on the team that headed up the integration of the five acquired companies. In all these positions, he played a key role in corporate account management, new business acquisition, executive training and overall strategic direction.

Haddawy also served on the board of the National Association of Trade Exchanges (NATE) to set guidelines for ethical business practices and to facilitate the sharing of information among independent trade exchanges around the world.

In 2004, Haddawy was an East Bay Business Times “40 Under 40” honoree as one of the region’s most influential business people under the age of 40. Haddawy has had articles on the barter industry published in Microfinance Insights, American Printer and Construction Business Owner magazines.

Haddawy is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies. He was also president of Sigma Pi fraternity and earned All-American boxing honors.

Raj Kapoor

CFO

Raj Kapoor is Chief Financial Officer of BizXchange and brings with him valuable senior financial and corporate managerial experience from a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to co-founding BizXchange, Kapoor’s positions included Senior Accounting Specialist for Spectrum United Mutual Funds Inc., Manager of Planning and Analysis for CNTS, IT and International Operations for Sprint Canada and Vice President of Finance and Operations for a technology company.

Kapoor is a certified management accountant, who graduated from the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in economics and labor management relations.

Ajay Goplani

General Manager (Dubai – UAE)

Ajay Goplani is General Manager (Dubai – UAE) at BizXchange, and is responsible for P & L, Business Strategy & Operations Management.

Ajay brings with him almost 15 years of experience having started his career with a family business in India in 1998 and, subsequently moving to UAE in 2003.

Having worked across multiple verticals on senior marketing and business development positions has helped Ajay develop a deep insight into highly competitive industries like telecom, IT, automobile, lifestyle, computers, hospitality, publishing, events and lately barter trades since 2009 when Ajay joined BizX. Ajay established a dedicated marketing products/services related business arm within 3 months of joining the company and was promoted as General Manager – UAE position in less than 2 years at BizX.

Ajay holds an MBA – Marketing, Masters Degree in Arts and Bachelors degree in Commerce..