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Thomas George

Angel investor and a16z Venture Scout | Build and grow Fintechs | Early-Monzo

San Francisco, California

Angel
Scout
Operator
Advisor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $30,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $20,000.00

Skills

Regulatory Compliance
Coaching
Commercial
Strategy
Outsourcing
Change Management
Organizational Design
Process Improvement
Business Development
Management Consulting
Strategic Consulting
Business Transformation
Business Strategy
Strategic Planning
Business Process Improvement
Consulting
Business Analysis
Program Management
Governance
Financial Services

Education

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Based in SF

3078 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

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Pre-seed Investors in San Francisco

994 people

Investments

Pave Bank

Seed

Total Funding: $5.2M

Work Experience

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Andreessen Horowitz

2023

  • Venture Scout

    2023

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Ezra Financial

2024

  • Advisor

    2024

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Balam

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Prosper

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Pave Bank

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Candle

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Monzo Bank

2016 - 2023

  • Director Of Operations

    2022 - 2023

    Responsible for all US operations. Including customer support, payment/banking operations, vendors, growth marketing, people, financial crime and finance in the US.

  • Lead Product Manager, Monzo USA

    2021 - 2022

    Rebooted the engineering and product team post covid -- hired key positions and reset our ways of working and strategy.

  • Director of Operations USA

    2020 - 2021

    Was the first person "on the ground" in the USA. Set up the necessary vendors and partners to launch our first product into the US market (card processing, partner banking, fraud, KYC etc.). Ran all of Monzo's US regulatory engagement with the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve and CFPB.

  • Head of International

    2017 - 2020

    Led a range of internal projects and built out the special projects squad. Projects included: international market expansion strategy, a major vendor renegotiation and series C fundraising.

  • Head of Risk

    2017 - 2017

    Took on an interim role to build new risk, compliance and regulatory processes in order to get fully approved for launch by the UK regulators.

  • Regulatory Analyst

    2016 - 2017

    Joined as employee 20, worked with senior team plus FCA/PRA to get approved as a fully regulated bank in the UK.

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Elixirr and Elixirr Capital

2012 - 2016

  • Consultant

    2013 - 2016

    Previous projects include developing the 5 year strategy for an offshore bank, mobilising a multi-million dollar IT infrastructure transformation programme for a Global Bank and Card Association sourcing for a major African Bank (for which Elixirr won the 2014 Management Consultancies Association Commercial Excellence award).

  • Analyst

    2012 - 2013

    Elixirr is a strategic advisory firm specialising in all forms of transformation, change, operating models and sourcing strategies. Elixirr's experience covers multiple industry domains and geographies with a current focus on Financial Services, Retail and Telecoms sectors.

NAI Haywards

2011 - 2012

  • Research and Business Development

    2011 - 2012

Haworth Tompkins Architects

2010 - 2010

  • Summer Work Placement

    2010 - 2010