Many people have a career change. Before venturing into fintech, Daniel Hegarty, founder of digital mortgage broker Habito, was a professional musician, composing for TV and film and touring internationally. In 2007, he joined a few people trying to work out how to do loans on the internet in real time, in a pre-launch company that was later named Wonga. “I stumbled in there and was fortunate that I was a secret geek who got quite excited about real time credit decisioning and the machine learning that was already emerging.” As Wonga’s head of product, Hegarty spent his time building its technology, and developing the business’s products for an international market. Read more: cityam.com
