Podcast with Joel Frisch, Head of Americas at Prodigy Finance
In our latest podcast, Vivek Chauhan (Wharton MBA ’19) chats with Joel Frisch, Head of Americas at Prodigy Finance. Prodigy Finance is a peer-to-peer platform offering loans to international post graduate students using an innovative credit model. Prodigy Finance was founded in 2007 by three INSEAD MBAs who experienced difficulty securing student loans for business school. In this engaging podcast, Joel talks about his own trajectory from banking into fintech, prodigy’s unique approach to credit modeling, impact investing, and opportunities and challenges in the P2P space.
Educated in Philadelphia and London, Joel had a successful career on Wall Street and co-founded a software startup in the employee management industry prior to joining Prodigy Finance. As the first US-based employee at Prodigy Finance, Joel has helped build both the team and the market while balancing the complexities of a fast scaling company in a highly regulated space across the UK & US.
