The people

Built by operators.

A small core with deep experience across telecom, financial services, regulated infrastructure and consumer technology at scale — based in Dubai, with engineering across Southeast Asia. We've built and run the kind of infrastructure ARIA now sits on.

01 ·Leadership

The core team.

Manit Parikh

Founder & CEO

Operator-investor across emerging-market telecom, digital infrastructure and consumer tech. Leads the business — sales, partnerships, capital and compliance.

Siddharth Sahi

Co-Founder & CBO

Owns partner relationships, MSAs and commercial activation across the live country footprint. The bridge between ARIA and the operators it runs inside.

Ioannis Karipsiadis

Chief Investment Officer

Leads capital strategy, investor relationships and the structuring behind partner and country expansion.

Juthamas Wasee

AVP of Legal

Regulatory posture, partner data-processing agreements, jurisdictional structuring and external counsel — consent and governance per market.

Vetrivelu Balasubramani

VP of Product

Product across BinaryOS, the Binary Network, BNII and Atlas. Turns the data layer into the five products. Based in Bangkok.

Kunanon Jarat

Tech Lead · AI

Owns the intelligence layer — model orchestration, the agent fleet, and ARIA's reasoning engine and BNII integration.

02 ·How we work

Operators, not theorists.

Every person here has shipped real infrastructure in real markets. We've integrated with national telcos, navigated emerging-market regulation, and built consumer products that millions actually use. ARIA isn't an academic project — it's built by people who know what it takes to run live inside a national operator's app.

We're part of The Binary Holdings (DIFC, established 2023), which gives the Labs the rails, the relationships and the regulatory footing to move fast without cutting corners.

Want to meet the team?

We host briefings for investors and partners — a working session with the people who build and run ARIA.

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