Pejman Makhfi (@pmakhfi) is a Silicon Valley tech veteran with more than 20 years of experience and has been involved in fintech, AI, and machine learning projects since 2001. Prior to Credit Sesame, Pejman was VP of Solutions for Savvion, CTO for FinancialCrossing, and COO at The Enterprise Network. He has held positions on boards such as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute, and the Lifeboat Foundation, a futuristics/AI governance organization. He holds a B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science from Dortmund University.