Asesh Sarkar

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Asesh Sarkar is the co-founder and Global CEO of Salary Finance, an employee financial wellbeing platform that offers salary-linked benefits including loans, savings, advances and financial education. The company reaches more than 15 million employees across the UK and US, has originated over £1 billion in employee loans, and was ranked the UK's 19th fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Fast 50.

Sarkar started his career as a consultant at Detica before spending the bulk of the next decade at PA Consulting Group, where he became a Partner advising financial institutions on strategic programmes. After a stint at Deloitte's transaction services team, he left consulting in 2015 to start Salary Finance with co-founder Andrew Davenport.

Beyond Salary Finance, Sarkar co-founded Work Report — a digital employment and income verification service that was acquired by Experian in 2022 — and serves as President of FinFit, the company's US arm. He is Chair of Trustees at financial education charity MyBnk and a guest speaker at Harvard Business School on the Salary Finance case study.