Propel Finance

Head of Technology & AI
Propel Finance

Propel Finance is a UK asset finance lender with 30 years' experience of helping small and medium-sized businesses fund equipment, vehicles, technology and green assets. Its "Human Digital Approach" combines personal service with its own digital technology.

Propel in numbers

  • 70,500 businesses supported
  • £2.009bn total finance provided
  • 9.7 / 10 customer satisfaction score
  • 344% growth between 2021 and 2024, recognised by the Asset Finance UK 50 for the fastest sustained growth by an asset finance lender
  • Named the UK's fastest-growing asset finance lender in 2022 and 2023

Technology

Propel's own Propeller platform gives partners and suppliers 24/7 digital access to finance. It offers quoting and auto-decisioning, real-time management information, and integration through APIs, webhooks and CRM connections. PropelPay builds the same end-to-end finance into merchants' online checkouts.

Partnerships

Through partnerships with Barclays, Santander, Apple Financial Services and Azets, more than a million SMEs can now access Propel's asset finance.

My role

I joined Propel in 2020 as Head of Development and am now Head of Technology & Artificial Intelligence, holding the CTO and CISO remit. I led Propel to ISO 27001 certification in 2023 and am now leading its ISO 42001 AI Management System programme.

Source: Propel Finance: About us
Source: Propel Finance: Our technology