Английская Википедия:Aneesh Varma
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Aneesh Varma is a British-American inventor and known as a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech company that pioneered the safe usage of machine learning in credit scoring and underwriting. He previously co-founded FabriQate, which went on to be an HSBC Startup Star 2008 & 2009, LDA KC Award 2009, British Council YCE in 2009 and CF500 in 2010. He was featured on the Business Insider 35 under 35 Fintech list in 2018[1]
Varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion. He was educated at Lehigh University, USA studying Engineering and Quantitative Finance. He was recognised by the European Commission as one of 12 Entrepreneur of the Year nominees in 2014[2] and by the British Council as a Young Entrepreneur 2009[3] in the technology sector. In 2020 he was named the Technology Innovator of the Year in the Credit Sector [4]
Life
Varma is considered a mathematical prodigy, at age 15 having achieved a perfect score on the Cambridge University course for Advanced Mathematics. [5] He continued his mathematical focus at university, completing the entire PhD coursework during his bachelor's degree.Шаблон:Citation needed
Varma is a Lehigh University Martindale Scholar from 2005, publishing his research on Europe's transition to a market-based Financial System.[6]
Career
Шаблон:BLP unreferenced section Varma started his first business at 16 and was involved with startups in his university days. At age 21 he was hired into JPMorgan in New York working on transactions for Financial Technology industry including Visa, Synovus and other consumer finance lenders. He has since built 3 technology companies in the United Kingdom that have scaled overseas including accolades for their work in improving financial inclusion[7]
Varma also serves on the Lehigh University Alumni Association (LUAA) board amongst other non-profit commitments.
References
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- ↑ Visiting Executives profile Martindale https://business.lehigh.edu/centers/martindale-center/programs/visiting-scholars-and-executives/
- ↑ Varma, Aneesh, "Hungary's Transition to a Capital-Market-Based Financial System: Problems and Solutions" (2006). Volume 24 - Transformation in Post-Communist Hungary (2006). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/perspectives-v24/10/
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
