Bhanu Arora

Bhanu Arora serves as the Chief Risk Officer at LendKey Technologies, Inc. since April 2024, previously holding the same role at Avant from March 2018 to March 2024, where responsibilities included leading credit risk, fraud management, collections strategy, data science, and information security, while enhancing profitability by over $10 million annually. Prior to these roles, Bhanu was the Chief Product Officer and Head of Consumer Lending, overseeing P&L for personal loans and credit card businesses, and managing marketing, business development, product development, pricing strategy, and customer onboarding. Bhanu's earlier experience includes a role as Vice President and Financial Engineer at PIMCO, and positions as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Summer Marketing Intern at YCharts. Bhanu holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.