Akash Dua

Akash Dua was named Chief Credit Officer for Elavon in October 2020, leading the global credit and fraud risk management organization, which oversees underwriting and loss prevention at Elavon, as well as airline credit globally. In addition, Dua is also responsible for the credit risk management of small business credit cards. Prior to his current role, Dua served as the Senior Vice President of Consumer Risk Management at U.S. Bank, where he led the teams responsible for portfolio management, authorization, payments risk, digital risk, modeling and first party fraud.

Before joining U.S. Bank in 2018, Dua worked for Amazon in product leadership for their NA co-branded credit card programs. Additionally, Dua’s experience includes risk leadership roles at Lending Club and American Express and consulting roles at Fair Issac, where he delivered predictive science and scoring projects to clients across the US, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

Dua holds an MBA in Finance from the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon and graduated with honors in Economics from Delhi University.