Award Winning Islamic Finance Leader Joins Comtech Gold

ComTech Gold has announced the appointment of Lim Say Cheong as Chief Advisor for Digital Assets and Islamic Finance, reinforcing the company's ambition to become a global leader in Shariah compliant real world asset tokenisation.

The appointment comes at a pivotal moment as the US$6 trillion global Islamic finance industry accelerates its adoption of blockchain, tokenisation and digital asset infrastructure as part of a broader transformation toward greater transparency, efficiency, and financial inclusion. Against this backdrop, Lim brings a rare combination of sovereign advisory credibility, long and deep Islamic banking, and capital markets experience, and forward-looking digital innovation.

An award-winning Islamic finance practitioner, Lim is a recipient of the highly prestigious Chevening and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Fellowship for 2025-2026, selected by the UK Government for his contributions to Islamic finance and financial innovation. He is also the recipient of the Cambridge Islamic Finance Leadership Award as Global Islamic Finance Leader, recognizing his international impact in advancing Islamic capital markets, public sector advisory and financial innovation.

His professional credentials include leading more than fifty global Sukuk issuances for sovereign and corporate clients including Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Dubai, Sharjah, Emaar Properties and Garuda Indonesia. He has advised central banks and governments including the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Bangladesh Bank and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, serves as a member of the Islamic Finance Advisory Board at the Astana International Financial Centre, and has held founding and senior leadership roles at Al Hilal Bank, Noor Islamic Bank and Lootah Global Capital.

Lim brings the credibility of sovereign advisory and the vision of digital innovation, said Jignesh Ve, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ComTech Gold. His leadership will help establish tokenized gold as the natural evolution of Shariah compliant investment that is fully asset backed, transparent and globally accessible.

In his advisory capacity, Lim will lead the development of Shariah compliant tokenisation frameworks for gold, real estate and infrastructure assets, deepen engagement with Islamic finance authorities and digital asset regulators, and support ComTech Gold's expansion across the GCC, Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Gold tokenisation represents a natural convergence of Islamic finance and blockchain, both of which are anchored in real assets, transparency and ethical principles, said Lim Say Cheong. By tokenising fully allocated physical gold, we are creating fractional, tradeable and Shariah compliant investments that appeal not only to Muslim investors but also to anyone seeking credible, asset backed value in the digital economy.

Lim holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD Business School in France and an Advanced Diploma in Islamic Finance from CIMA. He has completed executive education programmes at Wharton, Oxford, Cambridge and Columbia University. Beyond academic credentials, he has built Islamic banking and capital markets platforms from the ground up, transformed institutions into top tier Sukuk arrangers, and worked closely with regulators and sovereign stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions, capabilities that are central to ComTech Gold's global ambitions.

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