Manish Gupta is the CEO and founder of Corridor Funds, a new Institutional Credit Fund that combines the latest in analytics and technology with the human intuition of a very experienced credit team who has successfully underwritten and managed multi-billion dollar consumer and small business lending portfolios through multiple economic cycles at some of the leading banks in the world. He also recently launched Corridor Platforms Inc. a fully integrated big data credit decisioning platform to underwrite and manage consumer loans through the credit lifecycle.

Prior to that, he spent 13 years holding key senior management roles at American Express. Most recently, he was EVP and Head of Global Information Management and Data Products for American Express, along with responsibility for the companies Big Data and Advanced Decisioning Platforms. Before that, he was EVP and GM of OPEN (Small Business) Products and also launched American Express merchant financing and working capital products.

During his tenure at Amex Manish established a Big Data Lab in Bangalore to help transition American Express to the latest machine learning based predictive modeling. He also launched a new business for Amex called Performance Marketing - which uses the latest in big data and AI to help develop highly targeted marketing and deliver personalized customer experiences to consumers.

Before that Manish spent many years in risk management as CRO for the Global Commercial businesses, and then as the Chief Credit Officer of the U.S. consumer card business at Amex. Prior to joining American Express, Manish was a management consultant, as a partner and practice leader, with Mitchell Madison Group and PwC.

Manish Gupta holds an MBA in Finance, and a degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.