Giles Andrews, the co-founder of Zopa – the world’s first on-line peer-to-peer lending enterprise – is bringing some fintech chops to C. Hoare, the UK’s oldest personal financial institution.
Andrews based Zopa in 2004 and stays lively within the enterprise, which has since remodeled to a digital financial institution. He’s additionally a non-executive director of Financial institution of Eire Group and chairs carwow, the European on-line auto market.
He acquired an OBE in 2015 for companies to monetary companies and was named FinTech Chief of the Yr within the 2016 FinTech Innovation Awards.
C. Hoare chairman, Lord Macpherson, says of the appointment: “Giles is a good addition to the board. His expertise as an entrepreneur and in fintech and banking will likely be invaluable.”