Nigel Morris General Information

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Mr. Nigel Morris is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at QED Investors. He serves as Executive at Latitud. He serves as Board Member at Amount. He serves as Advisor at Resolve. He served as Board Member at Nubank and Red Ventures. He also served as Senior Advisor at General Atlantic. He serves as Director at Festiniog Railway Company. He serves as Managing Partner at Newid Capital. He serves as an Advisor at Signifyd and Spring Labs. He is also a Co-Founder of Capital One Growth Ventures. He served as Chairman of Brightbridge Ventures. He serves on the board of numerous for-profit companies, Klarna, CANCapital, MediaMath, QuintoAndar, Prosper, borro, and Bitso. He is also on the board of the Brookings Institution, National Geographic Ventures, ideas42, and the London Business School. Previously, he co-founded Capital One Financial Services in 1994. Under his leadership, Capital One pioneered an information-based strategy that fundamentally transformed the consumer lending industry. Combining advanced statistical marketing techniques with nascent information technologies, the company reduced costs to conventional borrowers, extended capital to overlooked consumers, expanded internationally, and produced extraordinary returns for investors. During his ten-year tenure, Capital One's sales grew at a compound annual rate of more than 40%. Over this same decade, earnings per share growth and return on equity both exceeded 20% per year, a financial performance attained by only a handful of American companies. Upon his retirement in 2004, Capital One's 15,000 employees across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom managed over $80 billion of loans for 50 million customers. Generating over $1.5 billion in earnings, Capital One had successfully transitioned from an emerging start-up into an established public company valued at over $20 billion. He has a BSC in Psychology from East London University and an MBA with distinction from London Business School. He served as Chairman at LendUp. He serves as Operating Partner at Virgo Investment Group. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at ClearScore.