Dinari Expands Business Development Team to Scale Institutional Adoption of Tokenized Equities

The market for tokenized real-world assets is projected to reach $14 trillion by 2030, as financial institutions increasingly explore tokenization across brokerage, asset management, and digital asset markets. As that market develops, Dinari is expanding the team responsible for working with the institutions building the next generation of financial products and infrastructure.

We’re welcoming three senior leaders to Dinari’s business development team: Umair Dandia as VP of Institutional Solutions, Vera Wang as VP of Institutional Business, and Isha Varshney as VP of Partnerships. Together, they bring experience across institutional finance, asset management, investment products, and decentralized markets.

The appointments expand Dinari’s business development organization across three areas central to the company’s institutional strategy: integrating tokenized equities into existing financial institutions, enabling new investment products built with tokenized securities, and extending their utility across decentralized markets. Each appointment brings experience directly aligned with these areas of growth:

Umair Dandia, VP of Institutional Solutions, brings more than two decades of experience across investment products and asset management, including a combined 18 years with Goldman Sachs and State Street. At Goldman, he launched active fixed income and equity ETFs representing more than $13 billion in assets under management; at State Street, he managed strategic sub-advisory and index relationships. He joins Dinari to work with asset managers and financial institutions developing and distributing investment products using tokenized securities infrastructure.

Vera Wang, VP of Institutional Business, will lead the expansion of Dinari’s relationships with broker-dealers, financial institutions and other institutional market participants. Wang previously advised global financial institutions on digital asset strategy and product implementation at McKinsey. Prior, she worked at JPMorgan, supporting Asian family offices investing in U.S. markets, and led US digital assets initiatives in-house at a large Hong Kong-based family office.

Isha Varshney, VP of Partnerships, will lead Dinari’s partnerships across decentralized financial markets and international fintechs, expanding the integration and utility of dShares™ across new markets, platforms and trading venues. Varshney most recently served as Head of Revenue Operations at Artemis and previously led ecosystem strategy and partnerships at the Celo Foundation, focused on expanding the network’s institutional and developer ecosystem. Earlier in her career, she co-founded Wealth Boost Investments, where she served as COO, and held roles in banking at M Holdings and private equity at Westmont.

The appointments come as financial institutions increasingly evaluate tokenization across brokerage, asset management and digital asset markets. With the market for tokenized real-world assets projected to reach $14 trillion by 2030, institutions are building the products and distribution channels to participate in this growing market.

Following its U.S. launch in August, Dinari now provides 724 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, including the entire S&P 500, to eligible investors in the United States and more than 85 jurisdictions globally. Its infrastructure enables broker-dealers, fintechs, wallets, exchanges and other financial institutions to integrate tokenized equities directly into their products and platforms.

Dinari has built its tokenization infrastructure to carry the rights and economic characteristics of traditional securities, including dividends, voting and corporate actions, into new models for distribution, trading and investment products. The expanded business development team will focus on bringing that infrastructure to a broader range of broker-dealers, asset managers and financial platforms.

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