Our Team

Our Purpose

Icon Maritech designs, develops, curates, and markets smart mobile and cloud based digital applications and solutions as well as cutting edge patented chemical and filtration technologies as for use by the international Maritime, Logistics, and Aviation industry - Commercial and Military. The company draws on the management team’s heritage of several decades in active international shipping, oil & gas and frontier markets with long standing relationships globally with first class principals.

Kenja is a platform that delivers full traceability and provenance of processes and certification. This ultra-secure platform enables frictionless data flow, with an easy-to use visual UI. 

Together as Icon Kenja, our aim is to collaborate with industry leaders and provide digital solutions to the biggest industry hurdles that streamline the processes for tracking the flow of documentation, money, and goods. Utilizing blockchain, a verifiable and immutable transaction log is created. Icon Kenja's ecosystem allows traders to mitigate their risk at all points in the supply chain from the procurement of goods to verification of the surveyor report to confirmation of bank note validity. Through the use of AI, simple transactions can be completed seamlessly while simultaneously simplifying the processes for complex transactions.

Rohan Shetty

Background: Rohan is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, strategic thinker, shipbroker and maritime/chartering/logistics consultant with a 30 year track record of developing home grown as well as established brands and alliances - regional to global. His current projects include and are not limited to the development, curation and introduction of patented and tested disruptive technologies - chemical, mechanical and information - to the global industrial maritime ecosystem.

Ted Katagi

Background: Ted Katagi is the CEO of Kenja, a B2B cloud collaboration platform company for enterprise customers. Before founding Kenja, he was Head of Private Equity Asia for Fidelity Investments, Chief Marketing Officer for Vodafone Japan and Verizon Wireless (West), and Global Head of Commercial Strategy for Vodafone. Ted also worked previously at IBM and Bain & Company.

Sandeep Khanna

Background: Sandeep Khanna is a highly accomplished private equity investor renowned for his expertise in emerging markets. As the Chairman of Joint Medical Holdings and the Managing Director of Stonetown Capital, Sandeep has consistently demonstrated his commitment to driving growth and innovation in the global investment landscape. With a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success, he is a dynamic leader in the world of finance, dedicated to realizing opportunities and creating value across diverse industries.

Sandra Ro

Background: Sandra is an avid proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. She left a career in investment banking and currency markets to focus on blockchain for global impact and is an early investor in and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

Sandra currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), a Swiss-based non-profit as well as an angel investor, Board member, advisor, and co-founder of several start-ups, including Proof of Art (PoA), helping artists, musicians, and creators remove business frictions. She speaks and writes on fintech, blockchain, crypto assets, digitization, responsible innovation, social impact and is director on the boards of Global Digital Finance (GDF), BitGive Foundation, SendFriend, Yale Alumni Health Network as well as advisor for FilecoinFoundation, Evertas, Kenja KK and others. She was appointed as the NYS Senate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force in2019, as well as AIFC Fintech Council (Kazakhstan), and GI Trust Travel Rule Standards Task Force (South Korea).

René Schuster

Background: Chairman of Kenja, with over 25 years of executive experience at CXO level and a compelling track record in growing global telecommunications and technology companies. He has built a career as a recognized international leader amongst industry giants such as KPMG, Telefonica, Vodafone, Hewlett Packard and Compaq, successfully responding to challenges reaching from urgent performance improvements, complex restructuring to accelerated digital transformations. Currently René is a Partner at Elixirr and Chairman of the Board of Virtualstock.

Sudhakar Tomar

Background: President- India Middle East Agri Alliance & Board Member of Food Security Committee Multi Nations Business Task Force, is an agri-produce food systems expert , investor and social entrepreneur with three decades of multifaceted international experience. He has been championing the issues of Food Security , Reducing Malnutrition and promoting Trade and Investments in Sustainable AgriFoodFarmTech Startups.He has won several awards including Forbes Top 100 Indian Leaders in the Arab World in 2019 , 2018, 2017 & 2016 , Global Agriculture Award (2019) from Indian Chamber of Food & Agriculture ,Business Leader of the year (2016) from Government of Dubai , 'Outstanding contribution Award’ ( 2017) from Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.