RateSetter names first chief investments officer
RATESETTER has named Mario Lupori (pictured) as its first chief investments officer, effective from the start of November.
Lupori held the position of chief product officer at the peer-to-peer lending platform before moving into the newly-created role.
He previously worked at credit card specialists New Day and Barclaycard before joining RateSetter as marketing director in 2015.
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“RateSetter was created to provide access to this asset class for ordinary investors and it’s important that there is someone whose role is solely to focus on that,” Lupori told Peer2Peer Finance News. “I want to see it become a household name for investors.”
Lupori said that his key focus will be on continuing to improve the product for customers and on growing RateSetter’s customer base.
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“I want an active and engaged customer base who are advocates and happy with the service they are getting from us,” he added.
“It’s a refocusing of my role – before it was more broadly focused, now it is going to be laser focused.”
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Read the full interview with Lupori in the November issue of the magazine, now available to read online.
