- 1. Career
KHOSLA
Rishi
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of OakNorth Bank
Organization: OakNorth Bank
Profession: Co-founder
Biography
Rishi Khosla is the CEO and co-founder of OakNorth Bank, a British bank.
Career
After graduating from LSE, Khosla began his career at the Dutch bank ABN AMRO in 1995 before joining GE Capital in 1999.
Prior to establishing his own company, Khosla worked for Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, where he managed a private equity venture portfolio for the Mittals that invested in fintech companies. It was during this time that Khosla became an early-stage investor in PayPal.
In 2011, Moody's Corporation acquired a majority stake in Copal Partners before eventually purchasing the company in 2014.
In 2015, Khosla and Perlman launched their second business together, OakNorth Bank. In March 2015, the company secured a full banking license from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), becoming the third new UK bank in over 150 years.