Nadia Sood is Group CEO & Founder of Credit Enable, the world’s first global managed marketplace for SME credit and operates India’s largest SME credit marketplace. Credit Enable uses data analytics, deep learning and AI to reduce the time involved with underwriting SME loans. Nadia began her career in the Office of UN Secretary Kofi Annan where she learned how to manage complex international issues. This led her into a 20-year career as an investor working at the intersection of private investing and transformative societal and climate change. She was Nestle’s first ever Director of Health and Wellness where she worked with the global board to transform the company from a food and beverage business to a health and wellness company.

In her next role as Executive Vice President of South Asia for SN Power, a renewable energy private equity fund, she was part of a team that built the first wind farm in Chile, the first renewable energy merchant power plant in the world and the first large hydropower project accredited by the UN to generate CERs. She helped the fund grow its assets under management from 260 million to 1.75 billion in under 5 years while also building a joint venture with Tata Power in India, acting as a Director on the boards of more than 10 companies in India, Nepal, and Chile. In 2011 she co-founded Impact Investment Partners LLP, the first FCA-authorised emerging markets impact investment firm in the UK which invested into companies in the healthcare and financial services.

Nadia holds a Bachelor’s in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. Nadia is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation, a global platform for more than 27,000 chief executives in more than 130 countries across the world, and has been featured in Forbes as a tech entrepreneur to watch.