Akshay Garg is the cofounder and Group CEO of FinAccel, a VC backed financial technology company that leverages deep data analytics to automate credit risk scoring and access to credit for consumers. FinAccel’s flagship product Kredivo enables consumers to borrow and buy from leading ecommerce merchants at bank-like interest rates with the simplicity of a few clicks.
Prior to founding FinAccel, Akshay cofounded Komli Media, one of Asia’s leading adtech companies, which raised over US$70m from top tier investors over 8 years and was acquired by Axiata, Malaysia’s leading telco, in 2015. Komli pioneered RTB (Real Time Bidding) and audience profiling in Asia. In 2009, Business Week magazine profiled Komli as one of the top 50 startups to watch out for globally.
Akshay studied Math, Economics and Politics at college in the US and did graduate studies in economics in Switzerland. Before finding entrepreneurial nirvana while cofounding Komli Media in 2006, he worked as a consultant at Deloitte Consulting in USA, a research economist with the United Nations in Switzerland and as an entrepreneur in China. He is a keen student of languages and has done medium to advanced language study in Mandarin and French.
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