Gerald Chappell

CEO and Co-Founder at Abound

Gerald Chappell has a strong background in the financial services industry, with significant experience in lending, credit risk, and analytics. Gerald is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Abound, a company that takes a holistic approach to assessing creditworthiness. Prior to this, Gerald co-founded and served as CEO of Render.

Before their entrepreneurial ventures, Gerald worked at McKinsey & Company as a Partner based in London. During their time there, they held leadership positions as the Global Head of Digital Lending and Global Head of Credit Analytics. Gerald advised financial services clients worldwide on enhancing business performance and innovation through risk transformation.

Earlier in their career, Gerald worked at Ernst & Young as a Partner, where they built and led the Quantitative Advisory Services group within the Financial Services Risk Management practice. Under their leadership, this group became the largest quant group in the UK Big 4, specializing in modeling and advanced analytics for credit, market, and operational risk.

Gerald started their career at KPMG as the Head of Financial Modelling in the Financial Sector Advisory.

Gerald Chappell's education history includes attending The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). However, no specific details regarding the degree obtained or field of study pursued are provided.

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  • CEO and Co-Founder

    July, 2020 - present