Giles Andrews

Giles has extensive experience in financial technology, investment and lending as well as strong management experience. He co-founded Zopa in 2004, the first ever online peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Giles was CEO of Zopa from 2007 to 2015, Chairman from 2015 until 2019 and remains a member of the Zopa Group Board. He is Chairman of Bethnal Green Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm which focuses on using technology to tackle large-scale social and environmental problems, and is on the boards of Carwow Limited, a platform for buying new cars from franchised dealers, and Market Finance Limited, a FinTech platform that provides working capital finance to small businesses in the UK.

Giles received a Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology from Christ Church at Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD. He was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to financial services and was named FinTech leader of the year in the 2016 FinTech innovation awards.