Ayan Mitra is Founder and CEO at CrowdBnk, an equity and debt crowdfunding platform, offering investors the opportunity to invest in exciting, rigorously vetted early stage and established businesses. Founded in 2011, CrowdBnk offers a high level of professional support to investors and businesses alike and, additionally, becomes a shareholder in every business that successfully funds on its platform. In 2014 alone, CrowdBnk successfully funded 14 companies, helping to raise over £7m. Prior to founding CrowdBnk,
Ayan was a Senior Enterprise Architect at Orange for about 3 years; prior to which he worked at Wanadoo/Freeserve for 3 years with stints at Marks & Spencer, First Direct and Indal (Alcan Group), all in the IT analysis and solutions. He is a science graduate from Jadavpur University, India, and holds an MBA from London Business School.