Aneesh Varma

Aneesh Varma is a London-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech startup building a new credit score for consumers to simplify financial decisions. He also previously co-founded FabriQate, an international mobile technology company[1] which went on to be an HSBC Startup Star 2008 & 2009, LDA KC Award 2009, British Council YCE in 2009 and CF500 in 2010. He was featured on the Business Insider 35 under 35 Fintech list in 2018[2]

Aneesh Varma
Aneesh Varma in 2005.
Born(1984-01-14)January 14, 1984
Tokyo, Japan
EducationLehigh University
OccupationEntrepreneur
Parent(s)Yogeshwar Varma

Varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion. He was educated at Lehigh University, USA studying Engineering and a second degree in Quantitative Finance. He was recognised by the European Commission as one of 12 Entrepreneur of the Year nominees in 2014[3] and by the British Council as a Young Entrepreneur 2009[4] in the technology sector.

Life

At age 15, Varma achieved a perfect score on the Cambridge University course for Advanced Mathematics. He continued his mathematical work at university, completing the PhD coursework during his bachelor's degree.

Varma is a Lehigh University Martindale Scholar from 2005, publishing his research on Hungary's transition to a market-based Financial System.[5]

Career

Varma started his first business at 16 and was involved with startups in his university days. At age 21 he was hired into JPMorgan in New York working on transactions for Financial Technology industry including Visa, Synovus and other consumer finance lenders.

Varma also serves on the Lehigh University Alumni Association (LUAA) board amongst other non-profit commitments.

References
  1. Crunchbase. "Bio". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  2. BusinessInsider. "Bio". BusinessInsider. BI. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  3. Commission, European. "Europioneers2014". European Commission. Europioneers. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  4. Council, British. "Creative Economy". British Council. British Council. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  5. Varma, Aneesh, "Hungary's Transition to a Capital-Market-Based Financial System: Problems and Solutions" (2006). Volume 24 - Transformation in Post-Communist Hungary (2006). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/perspectives-v24/10/
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