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Jaidev Janardana

CEO

Zopa

(United Kingdom)

Jaidev Janardana is Chief Executive Officer of Zopa, the world’s first peer-to-peer lending company. For the past 15 years, Jaidev has worked to create simple, fair financial products and services for consumers by leveraging technology and analytics. Jaidev joined Zopa in 2014. Since then, the company has grown its loan volumes and revenues at over 65% CAGR, achieved profitability, and announced plans to launch a bank alongside the P2P business. Before Zopa,  Jaidev spent 12 years at Capital One both in the US and UK. He moved to the UK as the Chief Credit Officer managing credit risk through the financial crisis. Later he took on a broader role as the Chief Marketing Officer and was instrumental in returning the UK business back to profitability and growth. Jaidev has an MBA from The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a B.Tech. from Gujarat University.