RE: Strength27 Aug 2025 09:15
Safe Hands!!
Dr. Marko Petteri Sjoblom is a Co-Founder and serves as Group Chief Executive Officer at Fiinu. Dr. Petteri is a former elite athlete with a doctorate in artificial intelligence and unbundling banking services. His fintech experience includes over 20 years on Wall Street and in the City of London including 10 years with leading banking, treasury, risk and payments companies. He has served as a treasury steering committee member at four DAX-30 companies. Before Fiinu, he founded one of the largest overdraft-style lenders in the UK which developed a fully automated software robot that lent and recovered over $1 billion in small increments in the UK without reliance on credit bureau data. His previous business was independently valued at $171 million after five years. Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was a sales director at Reval, a Wall Street-based hedge accounting and quant risk modeling platform. The company was acquired by Carlyle Group, through a $280 million LBO. He was a director at Kyriba, an in-house bank and payment factory SaaS platform that became a unicorn after receiving a $160 million investment from Bridgepoint Capital. He was also with Trema for six years, helping large incumbent banks and corporate treasuries manage their risk through straight-through-process automation. The company was acquired by Warburg Pincus, through a $150 million LBO in 2006 and later by ION Group. He earned a Degree from Cambridge University and a Degree from the University of Bath.