CEO and Co-Founder
Samir is responsible for driving the company strategy, managing the company’s finances and overseeing Funding Circle globally. Before founding Funding Circle, the leading marketplace for business loans, Samir was an Executive at Olivant and a management consultant at BCG advising a number of major UK and global banks and insurers on strategy, new product initiatives, and operational efficiency. By end of 2015, investors at Funding Circle, including 46,000 people, financial institutions and the UK government-backed British Business Bank, had lent over $1.8 billion to 15,000 small businesses in the UK, US and Continental Europe.