20 years in banking in executive positions (such as Director of International Division or Director of Strategic Marketing for SMEs in top Spanish saving bank).

Founder of LoanBook in 2013 after over 15 years working in the City of London, first as an M&A and private equity lawyer at Ashurst, subsequently as COO at GPT Halverton (now Internos), a pan-European asset management platform with over €3bn of assets under management. James is responsible for business and product strategy & development at LoanBook, loan underwriting and pricing and institutional investor relations.

Lucas began his career at PwC, later joining Sage in Spain, where he spent 10 years in a range of management roles focussed on developing Sage’s SME customer base in Spain, ending his time at Sage as Deputy CEO for Spain. As LoanBook’s COO, Lucas is responsible for “making things happen”, with a particular focus on our team, technology, operational development and growing our SME customer base.