Lex Greensill

Founder, Greensill

^{Lex Greensill CBE is co-founder and CEO of Greensill, the leading non-bank provider of working capital finance to companies globally. Lex’s early life was spent on his family’s sugar cane farm in Bundaberg, Australia where he learnt first-hand how a business can be made or broken by the supply chains to which it belongs. It is upon this intimate knowledge of the global supply network that Lex founded Greensill in 2011. In just eight years Greensill has grown to become a world leader in working capital finance, providing more than $150 billion of financing to more than 8 million customers and suppliers in over 165 countries. Lex previously established the global SCF business at Morgan Stanley and led the EMEA SCF business at Citi. He holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and is a Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of England and Wales, and Queensland. He has also been awarded the CBE for services to the UK economy.}