Arash Gourtani

Arash Gourtani serves as a Director on the Investment and Risk and Analytics teams and is based out of Singapore. Prior to working as a consultant with CIM (through Codevity), Mr. Gourtani was a co-founder at Impact Credit Solutions, an impact investment manager focused on fintech credit investments in South East Asia, where he served as Chief Analytics Officer, leading the Risk Analytics and Data Science team. Mr. Gourtani also previously was a Lead Data Scientist at Funding Circle UK and Senior Quantitative Analyst at Barclays, where he focused on SME credit risk modelling and portfolio optimization. Prior to Barclays, Mr. Gourtani was a Quantitative Analyst at HSBC, where he reviewed the model risk and methodology across different businesses. Before starting his career in financial services, he conducted quantitative research in renewable energy optimization at Smartest Energy and University of Southampton.

Mr. Gourtani holds a BSc in Statistics from University College London, MSc in Operational Research from London School of Economics and PhD in Mathematics from University of Southampton.