Louis founded Loanpad in 2015, shaping the company and steering it through the stringent FCA authorisation process. He’s a qualified and highly experienced lawyer specialising in real estate finance.

Louis founded HCLS (law firm) in 2009 and iBridge (lending business) in 2013.

Louis decided to create Loanpad as a new model of peer-to-peer lending that’s safer, simpler and more flexible for investors.

Neil joined Loanpad in early 2018, shortly prior to FCA authorisation being granted.

As a Chartered Accountant (FCA), he was a Director at both BDO and Duff & Phelps specialising in Financial Services and worked with a range of firms from startups to multinationals on finance, regulatory compliance, and operations.

At Loanpad, he is responsible for designing and leading the firm’s end-to-end operations including finance, credit underwriting, software development and regulatory compliance.

Marc joined Loanpad in January 2018 having followed its progress during its FCA authorisation process. He began his career in 2000 as an equities trader for Goldenberg Hehmeyer & Co and in 2004 decided to become a private investment manager on behalf of high net worth individuals.

Marc also has a passion for internet startups and over the last ten years has split his time between investment management and helping to develop various companies, directing strategy, marketing, sales and customer experience management. Marc holds an LLB in Law and is Eurex qualified.

Jacob has been in the creative sector for over 15 years. He sleeps and breathes creative design and branding. Before joining Loanpad, Jacob ran a digital agency in the center of London. His responsibilities include planning, directing & managing the creative process of any project from the first meet to delivery. He has also worked on projects for Sony, Cartoon Network and many others.

Jacob creates and oversees Loanpad’s visuals and branding, digital adverts and social media messaging.

Jamie graduated from UCL with a mechanical engineering degree and during his studies built an information-sharing and organisation platform called Mashoom. Now being used in many large organisations, it is relied upon to securely and easily manage many different forms of data.

Mashoom’s success is based on Jamie’s belief that software can and should be simple, secure, powerful and available to all. Now CTO at Loanpad, Jamie is applying these principles to the financial technology world through Loanpad - a simple user-experience backed by powerful algorithms and tight data control that everyone can be a part of.

Raluca comes from a background in law and finance. She has worked at a London law firm specialising in real estate finance and at a Lending company issuing real estate loans. She brings a wealth of experience to Loanpad.

Raluca handles many of Loanpad’s day to day operations and is also responsible for our customer support processes.

Alex graduated from UCL with a Masters in Engineering, where he gained a large amount of his coding expertise whilst developing virtual reality (VR) software that allows engineers to visualise and interact with their designs in a 3D environment instead of on a 2D computer screen.

Alex maintains his association with UCL in developing software to help the UCL Racing team to assemble their car in VR.