Aneesh Varma

Aneesh Varma is a London-based serial entrepreneur, inventor and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech company that pioneered usage of first-party data 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]

Aneesh Varma
Born(1984-01-14)January 14, 1984
Tokyo, Japan
EducationLehigh University
Occupations
  • Entrepreneur
  • Campaigner
  • Inventor
ParentYogeshwar Varma

Varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion. He was educated at Lehigh University, USA studying Engineering and a second degree in 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.

Varma is a Lehigh University Martindale Scholar from 2005, publishing his research on Hungary's transition to a market-based Financial System.[6]

Career

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
  1. BusinessInsider. "Bio". BusinessInsider. BI. Retrieved 11 June 2018. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. "Europioneers2014". European Commission. Europioneers. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  3. "Creative Economy". British Council. British Council. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  4. 2020 awards. "Awards" (PDF). CreditCollections. CC. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  5. Visiting Executives profile Martindale https://business.lehigh.edu/centers/martindale-center/programs/visiting-scholars-and-executives/
  6. 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/
  7. InnovateFinance Profile on Varma. "Bio". InnovateFinance. IF. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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