Anthony Persse

Chief Executive, Optimum Finance

Anthony was appointed CEO of Optimum Finance in October 2020. Since its foundation in 2017, Optimum Finance has become one of the UK’s fastest growing finance businesses, extending over £100m of funding to a client base that grew more than 50% in 2019. Anthony is a passionate advocate for technological innovation when deployed to ease the pressure of poor cashflow and late payments felt by the country’s increasingly desperate SMEs. He combines extensive understanding of the SME finance market with specialist technical skills. As Financial Solutions Director for Proactis for two years, Anthony led the development of the market-leading early payment solution, bePayd. Prior to Proactis, Anthony headed up the strategy and risk teams for Ultimate Finance.

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