Rishi Khosla
Rishi Khosla OBE is a British-Indian serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of OakNorth Bank, a fintech firm focused on enabling entrepreneurs worldwide to access customised mid-sized loans.[1][2][3]
Education[edit]
Khosla was educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1987-1992) and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from University College London, and a Masters in Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics,[4] where he was awarded a scholarship by the Economic and Social Research Council.[5]
Career[edit]
After leaving the LSE, he started his career in banking at ABN Amro,[6][7] before joining GE Capital’s London-based business development group in 1999. Here he focused on mergers and acquisitions.[3][8] During his tenure, he established an early stage tech venture fund for GE Capital, which he co-managed.[9][10] He subsequently joined the family office of steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, the current president and CEO of ArcelorMittal, to manage their venture capital and private equity investments.[11][12][13]
Khosla was one of the co-founders of Copal Amba along with his LSE classmate Joel Perlman. Copal Amba was an outsourced research company for investment banks, which was acquired by Moody's Corporation in 2014.[14][15] In mid-2008, Copal Amba was ranked the Number One Investment Research and Analytics KPO in Brown and Wilson Group's annual 'Black Book of Outsourcing 2008'.[16][17]
Khosla and Perlman have since founded OakNorth Holdings, a fintech firm focused on unlocking the potential in bespoke SME lending globally using its data and technology platform, OakNorth.[18][19][20]
OakNorth Holdings has attracted over $1bn from several investors, including: Clermont Group, Coltrane, EDBI of Singapore, GIC, Indiabulls, NIBC, Toscafund, and SoftBank Vision Fund.[21][22] In its most recent round in February 2019 led by SoftBank Vision Fund, it was valued at $2.8bn.[23][24]
Awards, honours and recognition[edit]
Khosla was one of the recipients of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2011.[25]
Khosla was named on the 2018 Maserati 100 - a list dedicated to celebrating the positive impact entrepreneurs have on the British economy and society as a whole. The list is compiled in partnership with The Sunday Times and recognises 100 game-changing entrepreneurs who are true innovators in the business world.[26]
Khosla was named as "Business Person of the Year" at the 2018 Asian Achievers Awards.[27]
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to business.[28]
References[edit]
- ↑ "OakNorth Bank CEO: Hoping to overhaul the "peculiarly British disease" of small firms being overlooked by larger lenders | Business Advice". Business Advice. 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
- ↑ "Newcomer OakNorth Bank takes on business pain points". Growth Business. 2016-08-24. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dunkley, Emma (2015-05-26). "Rishi Khosla: pioneer of challenger banking". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ↑ "Rishi Khosla: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ "Epiphany Ventures — Team". epiphanyventures.in. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ↑ "Rishi Khosla, CEO of Copal Partners, an outsourced research company for the financial services sector, and won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for London and The South". www.copalamba.com. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ↑ "Interview - Rishi Khosla - Alliance magazine". Alliance magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ Dunkley, Emma (2015-05-13). "Entrepreneurs ride second wave of bank start-ups". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ World Investment Conferences Europe 2011
- ↑ Economics Times Learning on the job with LN Mittal
- ↑ "Learning on the job with LN Mittal". timesofindia-economictimes. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ↑ "The Rs 29,000-crore surprise- Business News". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ "Indiabulls Housing to buy 39.8% in UK's OakNorth Bank for $100M | VCCircle". www.vccircle.com. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ "Indian lender buys $100m OakNorth stake". Insider Media Ltd. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ↑ ibrahimgarzon (2008-08-14), Rishi Khosla CEO of Copal Partners on CNBC, retrieved 2016-06-01
- ↑ "Copal Partners Named #1 Global Investment Research and Analytics KPO by the Black..." Reuters. 2008-07-01.
- ↑ "Copal Partners has been named the number one Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) company globally for Investment Research and Analytics | Copal Amba". www.copalamba.com. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ "ACORN machine rebrands as OakNorth Analytical Intelligence". Property Funds World. 2018-10-23. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ "OakNorth: AI Fuels Small Business Bank Lending | PYMNTS.com". www.pymnts.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ "Marketplace Lending News Roundup – November 3 - Lend Academy". Lend Academy. 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ "OakNorth raises $440 million from SoftBank and Clermont". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ↑ "UK's OakNorth targets U.S. after $440 million SoftBank cash injection". Reuters. 2019-02-08. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ↑ Browne, Ryan (2019-02-08). "SoftBank invests in UK fintech OakNorth, giving it $2.8B valuation". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ↑ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ↑ Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Award Recipients
- ↑ Maserati. "2018 Maserati 100 - R.Khosla & J.Perlman: OakNorth | Maserati UK". www.maserati.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ ABPL. "2018". www.abplgroup.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ↑ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N13.
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