In 2011, Anil co-founded and successfully launched a next-generation financial start-up called Marketinvoice.com. MarketInvoice is a confidential online trading system that allows UK small and medium businesses to raise cash by auctioning invoices due from large end customers, receiving bids from global professional investors who advance up to 90% up front. MarketInvoice users benefit from a flexible source of working capital, complete confidentiality, no arrangement fees, no monthly fees and no need for personal guarantees.

Since trading began in February 2011, MarketInvoice has channelled over £45 million through invoice auctions for over 180 registered businesses. The company has been featured in The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Evening Standard, City AM, the Financial Times, The Economist as well as Sky News, BBC, and Reuters. It was declared 'Innovation of the Year' in the City AM Awards 2012, and won the title 'Commercial Lender of the Year' 2013 from the Institute of Credit Management.

In addition, Anil is the Head of Policy for the Next Generation Finance Consortium (NGFC), an umbrella group of alternative finance platforms, crowd funding platforms, business angel networks and credit unions. The Next Generation Finance Consortium is a new private-led initiative to create a platform where entrepreneurs can find alternative sources of funding for their high growth businesses.

Anil has a background in the private equity industry, working first with the Lehman Brothers Private Equity Group, and subsequently the investment bank Cogent Partners. His focus was on mid-market and small scale growth businesses in the UK and he built up experience across a number of industries including technology and financial services. Anil has a double first Economics degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University.

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