Global talent investor

EF Alumni

Sanjeev Jeyakumar

CEO, Lenkie

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Nnaemeka Obodoekwe

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Sanjeev previously worked at Citigroup, where he structured over $2bn of lending in emerging markets and then ran credit trading for the Middle East and Africa region. He has built and scaled startups in leadership roles both across marketplaces and FinTech.

Lenkie pitch at Europe 15 Demo Day

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Lenkie

Embedded lending for platform-based businesses

Efe Surekli

Previously co-founded a VC-backed AI startup. Early engineer at Tractable. Postgrad in Cambridge

Parit Patel

Experience in Financial Services, FinTech & M&A. Founding Team & CFO of Drover. ACA.

Jordan Noble

Statistical machine learning expert focused on implementing real-time solutions at scale

Jack Hogan

Privacy enthusiast and data scientist, specialised in multi-source data fusion

Sigurjon Isaksson

Full-stack software & machine learning engineer with a background in financial engineering

Youssef Darwich

2nd employee at Tide with strong experience in FinTech and wealth management

Abdel Wahab Turkmani

Built state-of-the-art impact & ESG analytics for global asset managers and impact investors

Oliver Dean

CEO, Reti Health

Built AI to automate the diagnosis of prostate cancer from MRI, ex-consultant and GoCardless

Nnaemeka Obodoekwe

Built software architecture for Africa's biggest banks and led machine learning teams

Alex Tupper

Experienced full-stack engineer, data engineer and product specialist

Trevor Stunden

Experienced commercial Director, previously early employee and senior leader in a PropTech startup

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

2x CTO with a track-record of implementing scalable and disruptive machine learning solutions

Ben Lakey

CEO, Syndi Health

Impact-driven Bioengineer, specialised in Medical Device regulatory navigation and commercialisation

Tanrajbir Singh Takher

Former Data Scientist with a Master's in machine learning from UCL

Karishma Galani

Former EdTech researcher with a Master's in education from Harvard University

Christopher Chavasse

CTO, Muddy Machines

Robotic innovation, built everything from UAVs to next gen robots at Dyson, Deliveroo and Karakuri

Florian Richter

CEO, Muddy Machines

Serial entrepreneur, commercial roles at Google, SumUp, Bookatable. Large family farm in Portugal

Haroon Hassan

CEO, Sense Street

Experience working on bond trading desks in Europe and the US as a trader and research analyst

David Hunter

CEO, Optimal Labs

Studied aeronautical engineering and computer science, ex-pilot and quantitative strategist

Matt Schofield

CTO, Credit Kudos

Computer scientist, former CTO and data science team lead

Freddy Kelly

CEO, Credit Kudos

Computer scientist and engineer, was responsible for deployment of Bitnami's cloud launchpad

Helene Guillaume

Ex-hedge fund quant, MSc in financial risks and ultra athlete

Efe Surekli

Previously co-founded a VC-backed AI startup. Early engineer at Tractable. Postgrad in Cambridge

Parit Patel

Experience in Financial Services, FinTech & M&A. Founding Team & CFO of Drover. ACA.

Patrick de Castro Neuhaus

Experienced developer and tech consultant for financial services companies

Chris Zemina

Experienced in FinTech investments

Tristan Garrec

Deep expertise in computational market design

Victor Moreau

Ex-strategy consultant with expertise in financial services, engineering degree from CentraleSupélec

Sigurjon Isaksson

Full-stack software & machine learning engineer with a background in financial engineering

Youssef Darwich

2nd employee at Tide with strong experience in FinTech and wealth management

Abdel Wahab Turkmani

Built state-of-the-art impact & ESG analytics for global asset managers and impact investors

Oliver Dean

CEO, Reti Health

Built AI to automate the diagnosis of prostate cancer from MRI, ex-consultant and GoCardless

Nnaemeka Obodoekwe

Built software architecture for Africa's biggest banks and led machine learning teams

Shourya Lala

Computer science engineer and an accomplished application developer

Manish Maryada

Domain expertise in financial operations, strategy and product

Jose Sampedro Mazon

Ex-corporate lawyer, experience in strategy & ops transformations and business development

Ollie Graham

CEO, Surge Analytics

Experience in financial services and software engineering

Favour Nyikosa

Specialist in datamining and interpretable models

Jon Forester

Built data and analytics products in startups and finance sector

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Hugo Pascail

CTO, Invest Insight

PhD in Quantitative Finance, experience building AI models and econometric algorithms

Jean-Régis de Vauplane

CEO, Invest Insight

Worked on AI and web projects as an Agile Coach and Product Manager

Juan Barragan

Experienced in software development with work on pattern recognition in finance and advertising

Hamza El Khalloufi

CTO, DeltaBlock

PhD in liquidity modelling, research fellow in Digital Assets

Maria Silvia Scetta

CEO, Deltablock

Ex-trader and portfolio manager, financial engineer

Sara Sebti

Experienced as a risk manager within financial institutions

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Barnaby Hussey-Yeo

Data scientist with interests in finance and machine learning

Tarik Dadi

Led data science projects around the world, Master's Degree in Machine Learning

Hadrien De March

Ex-quantative analyst, PhD in optimisation

Rafie Faruq

Lifelong programmer with MSc in Machine Learning, previously a derivatives trader

Sho Sugihara

Experience working in NGOs on economic inclusion and consultancy

Grant Aarons

CEO, FabricNano

PhD in Economics, worked in systems engineering and mathematical modelling

Ankit Parashar

Engineer, built SAAS-based analytics product for hardware

Josh Kettlewell

Expert in machine learning, quantum computing and cryptocurrency

Ben Stein

Co-founder, Staple

Chartered accountant and full stack developer

Sudeept Sinha

Ex-quantative trader, developer price prediction algorithms

Vincent Audoire

Early employee at N26, strong understanding of how users work

Rob Schumacher

CEO, Feather Insurance

PhD in Insurance Mathematics

John Moura

CEO, ElementZero Biolabs

Led product development, sales, and operations in global companies

Sachin Chiramel

CEO, real analytics

Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Neel Popat

Finance and investment professional, began coding as a child

Jordan Abderrachid

Blockchain developer, previously Ecole Centrale De Lyon

Saikrishnan Ranganathan

CEO, Sensorflow

Built energy solutions across multiple industries, previously Goldman Sachs

Rathin Shah

Worked in investment banking and management at JP Morgan Chase, graduate of BITS Pilani

Gaurav Arora

Software engineer, previously Netflix and Ixigo

Jevan Nagarajah

CEO, Better Dairy

Experienced across banking and technology

Stacy-Ann Sinclair

Developer, previously worked in tier one investment banks