About Nilan Peiris

Nilan Peiris joined Wise in 2014 as VP Growth, helping the company scale and work towards the mission, but he'd been following Wise's journey since 2012 as an advisor. Prior to Wise, He  was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan Peiris also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction. TransferWise customers send £500m every month using the platform, and it’s attracted $91m from investors such as world’s largest VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, the co-founders of PayPal. He also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction. Nilan Peiris holds a 1995 - 1999 University of Bristol.