Touché announces appointment of new Chief Legal Officer

Singapore based technology company Touché has announced the appointment of Mr Arvind Vij to the position of Chief Legal Officer with effect from 01 May 2018. Arvind is joining Touché’s experienced executive leadership team.

Arvind brings with him 20+ years of international legal experience across different sectors, both as an in-house lawyer and in private practice. He founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Illuminati Humanista Solutions, providing specialised and customised services in the areas of Legal, Compliance and Corporate Secretarial support to a diversified range of clients in the areas of Corporate, Commercial Banking and Finance, Information Technology and Intellectual Property.  Arvind will continue to be involved with Illuminati.

Prior to that, Arvind spent more than 14 years at JPMorgan in Singapore, Mumbai & New York and was most recently Managing Director & Associate General Counsel, Global Head Legal Entity Management and General Counsel and Head of Compliance for Offshoring and Outsourcing. Prior to JPMorgan, Arvind was with Drew & Napier in Singapore, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Singapore & New York and Pillsbury Winthrop in Singapore & New York.

Arvind will report directly to Sahba Saint-Claire, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Touché.

“Arvind’s unique blend of multinational legal expertise and business acumen makes him a great addition to the team as we realise our plans to redefine payment transactions into value-added interactions, in the region and globally. He joins us at an exciting time with multiple partnerships being discussed with leading banks and merchants across APAC and the Middle-East,” said Saint-Claire.

“Touché is a dynamic company that is uniquely positioned to reshape the payments industry and provide personalised customer experiences through its comprehensive biometric based system. I look forward to joining the team and helping Touché develop and implement new strategies on legal matters,” said Arvind.