Lisa is the CEO of Funding Circle, the UK’s leading SME finance platform. To date the platform has extended more than £17bn to small businesses, supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs. During her time at Funding Circle, as UK Managing Director, she led the UK business through the pandemic becoming one of the largest lenders under the CBILS government loan scheme; and as Chief Strategy Officer she led capital raising from Series C to IPO; and led the company’s international expansion with two acquisitions. She was named as AltFi’s CEO of the Year 2022 and Fintech Woman of the Year in 2021. She has also been named on the Innovate Finance FinTech PowerList 2017-2023.

Prior to Funding Circle, Lisa was a strategy consultant at BCG. She has also worked for NGOs in Tanzania and India. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.