Ali Chaudhry

Ali Chaudhry is the current CEO of 118118 Money at kgb. Ali has transformed the company from a largely telephone based sub-prime lender to a fully digital financial services company. This included strategic re-orientation, Decision Science talent build-up and transformation of analytics through deployment of Data Robot’s AI Cloud platform.

Ali also launched a unique credit card proposition and re-positioned the unsecured loans business for profitability and growth. A loss making sub-scale business delivered 13% ROA within 2 years, largely on the back of credit risk/price optimization and strategic expense management.

Prior to 118 118 Money, Chaudhry served as President & CEO of Telenor Microfinance Bank Limited, where they led the largest microfinance and mobile money business in the country, under the umbrella of Telenor and easypaisa brands. From August 2011 to October 2014, they were Chief Commercial Officer (Chief Risk Officer from 08/11 to 04/13) at NewDay.

Ali Chaudhry has a BA in Accounting and Economics from the University of Kent, as well as a BA in Mathematics with a focus in Statistics & Economics from Government College University in Lahore.

Their manager is Robert Pines, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder. Some of their coworkers include Bob Bryan - CEO, Conduit Global, Pradip Raval - Chief Financial Officer.