Jonty is CTO and co-founder of Wonga, a ground-breaking online consumer finance company backed by Balderton Capital. Jonty started his career being mentored by renouned banker, Gilbert de Botton at Global Asset Management and spent 2 years designing reporting systems to allow complex financial instruments to be explained to private investors.
In 1996 Jonty founded his first company in a small back room in Convent Garden, London, with a team of inspiring young developers and artists. After 2 years of building the technology, Delve Reporting launched in 1997. Delve grew through the dotcom wave to become one of the worlds leading financial reporting platforms.
The 2001 bubble-bursting was a defining moment for Jonty as CEO of Delve but through a series tough decisions, the company came through stronger and more streamlined. In 2005, Delve was acquired by Statpro PLC. Delve’s technology continues to power reporting for some of the worlds largest financial institutions.
Following the sale of his company, Jonty was Creative Director of the StatPro Group (AIM: SOG) until 2007. During this time he was responsible for unifying the teams and technologies from 6 acquired companies in 5 countries helping the Statpro grow from 50 to over 200 employees.
Wonga.com is Jonty’s current project - his aim is to bring a range of disruptive methodologies to the UK consumer banking industry. Since founding Wonga together with Errol Damelin in 2007, Jonty (CTO) has built the teams and technologies to bring the UK’s most sophisticated real-time consumer risk engine to market. Wonga has emerged as one of Europes fastest growing companies.
To balance his entrepreneurial side, Jonty is also an emerging sculptor striving to find the cross-over between art and mathematics. Over the past 5 years he has built up a collection of works that can be seen at www.delve.net. In 2007 his work went on exhibition at the Maidstone Museum as a finalist in the Bentliff Art Prize.
Jonty is also one of the co-founders and Trustees of the Separated Child Foundation (www.separatedchild.org) which was established in 2007 to help young refugees arriving in the UK with no parental support.
