Akhil Lodha is the CEO and Founder of StratiFi Technologies, a company that provides an AI-powered platform to streamline investment workflows for wealth managers. With a strong background in quantitative finance, Akhil has over 12 years of experience in managing investment risk, having previously worked at Citigroup and led a $400M asset management firm. His academic credentials include a degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Akhil’s vision with StratiFi is to unlock financial freedom by helping people secure their future.

Akhil Lodha

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Founder

Divvy Homes

Lead a team of 20 associates, analysts & managers covering risk strategy & operations. Laid risk data foundations & upgraded risk policy, tools & models. Overhauled the collections & underwriting processes to improve cost, speed & conversion. Improved risk metrics during a high growth period & made tactical shifts in risk appetite to account for changing market conditions. Managed risk/UW components for new product launches.

VP, Risk & Ops

Fintech Startups

Formally & informally advising few fintech & proptech startups. Brainstorming challenges & solutions with promising founders & providing frameworks to enable growth & prove their product ideas with limited resources & data.

Advisor

Stilt Inc.

Stilt (acquired by JG Wentworth) was a financial services company focused on immigrants. Our main product was personal loan for immigrants with limited or zero credit history. We later launched Onbo in 2021 to help businesses build credit product without a bank sponsor.

Scaled lending business to $170m annualized origination from initiation stages. Responsibilities covered revenue, growth, product, compliance & strategic finance. Setup & scaled data, credit, operation & support teams. Developed & implemented a novel risk score (based on permissioned bank/financial data & credit history data) & underwriting decision engine (including fraud prediction, ability to pay & pricing optimization) to automate UW decisions. Helped in raising debt & equity capital. Managed risk/underwriting components in bank product & credit as a service platform (Onbo). Started employee #7.

GM Lending

Head of Credit, Risk and Data Science

Onbo by Stilt Inc.

 Head of Credit, Risk and Data Science

Merrill Lynch

Led transformation of strategic asset allocation from a one page framework into a hyper-customized product by making it more robust, cost/tax efficient, location specific & goals/term based which covered all major platforms (ML, UST, Edge, OCIO) & thus thousands of schemas. Developed portfolio construction engine to track an allocation through any given set of ETFs (robo advisor in retirement & Edge platforms). Implemented a goals driven retirement income strategy (joint research with EDHEC) to be launched in IRAs. Initially worked with several internal PMs (equity, tax optimization, ALM, ESG & mainly a $2b systematic multi-asset dynamic allocation strategy) as a quant by developing factor/optimization models, backtesting strategies & researching signals to predict factors & asset class returns.

Director, Chief Investment Office - Quantitative Portfolio Management

Bank of America

Developed first of its kind bank relationship data based credit underwriting models (not just behavior based on transactions/savings data but also other loans, assets, investments, retirement, trading data available from existing bank relationships). Models enabled the bank to deepen relationship (increasing credit approvals amongst existing bank customers), grow portfolio & de-risk (better performing newer cohorts) at the same time. Initially part of a team which developed underwriting and portfolio management scorecards and strategies for consumers and small businesses. Worked with internal & external partners to ensure models are fair & compliant.

VP, Credit Cards - Data Science & Analytics

Genpact

Transitioned of Toyota Financial’s data science & analytics projects (~$ 5mm in annual revenue) from Modelytics. Hired & trained a team of 14 analysts & managers to continue ongoing projects. Managed a team of 3 analysts to develop pricing, collection & residual risk models & strategies.

Data Science Manager

Modelytics

Modelytics, a boutique consulting firm, provided advanced analytics solutions & data science project delivery for an impressive client base comprising some of the leading financial services and banking firms based in US, Americas and Europe.
Worked on several challenging consulting projects which includes developing:
- Models & strategies for Toyota Financial's underwriting, collections & residual risk
- Pricing strategy for Discover credit card's introductory offers
- Deep learning model for fraud detection in Chase's debit card transactions (challenger to Falcon score)
- Growth analytics & models for Visa's offline debit card transactions
- Asset value & prepayment models for American Home Mortgage
Actively involved in campus recruiting, employee engagement activities & business development for the consulting firm.

Data Science Consultant

Sterling Commerce an AT&T company (now IBM)

Worked in B2B EDI product's development team.
Owned several messaging protocols & developed their wrappers & relevant features.

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