Hugh
Courtney.

At Zilch, Hugh leads the company’s collective Finance functions, combining the Strategic Finance, Business Partnering, Financial Reporting, Legal and M&A teams. Hugh was one of the first four members of the Zilch team, now spanning over 250 employees in the UK, USA, and EU. In addition to leading Finance, Hugh was originally responsible for Compliance and Credit Risk, securing FCA authorisation for Consumer Credit, and driving the underwriting of sub and near prime customers to sustainable performance levels using innovative data led onboarding and credit underwriting models developed in house.

Helping raise over £400m of equity and debt capital funding at Zilch, Hugh has supported the Founders across a wide range of investor interactions and taken the lead on delivering multiple world leading securitised debt partners to support Zilch’s future and global ambitions for scale.

Hugh’s experience prior to Zilch includes co-founding speciality lending businesses, capital raising for small and mid-cap listed businesses, and primary debt capital markets origination in investment banking. Hugh holds an MBA (Oxford), and both the CA(SA) and ACA designations.