About Vijay Sachidanand

• 25 years' experience building and managing businesses and developing products in entrepreneurial, technology and financial services environments • Co-founder and CEO of GAIN Credit's SaaS business (Synapi); GAIN Credit is a fintech company offering credit to underserved customers and software solutions to companies wanting to lend to their own customers • Previously had commercial/P&L responsibility for Drafty, one of GAIN's two consumer lending business lines, and ran GAIN's global Product Management function, supporting both business lines • Prior experience includes building and running Product at Elevate Credit International, an early-stage fintech company offering online credit, and 3 years growing and managing Amazon’s portfolio of UK credit products • MBA from London Business School; undergraduate degrees in business (The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania) and engineering (University of Pennsylvania) • Deep experience building, managing and improving large teams, leading large cross-functional and virtual teams, and operating in Agile environments • Background in a variety of sectors and have worked extensively in the US, UK and India • Current UK resident, UK and US citizen, and have a working knowledge of Italian