Salad Money appoints Chief Data Officer

Social purpose lender Salad Money has announced that it has appointed Bernard de Barbeyrac to the role of Chief Data Officer.

de Barbeyrac brings extensive experience in building decision science risk models, joining Salad Money after nearly eight years with Funding Circle UK where he was Global Head of Decision Science. His career has included stints in France, the USA and the UK. After studying engineering in Paris, de Barbeyrac moved to Capital One where he became a Senior Risk Analyst.

Tim Rooney, CEO of Salad Money, said, “Bernard is a dream hire for Salad Money. He’s a seasoned professional when it comes to optimising application processes through Machine Learning using structured and unstructured data. As we witness exploding demand for affordable credit we need to extend our ability to make fair, accurate and rapid lending decisions and Bernard’s role will play a key part in this.”