Vinay appreciates recent improvements to how he orders mini-cabs and take-aways, but he passionately believes that technology can revolutionise what really matters. He co-founded Lightful with a determination to transform how people and beyond-profit organisations use digital tools to change the world.

Prior to joining Lightful as CEO in the summer of 2016, Vinay started his career in investment banking and worked as an Executive Director at JPMorgan. He then spent eight years in a variety of leadership roles in the charity and social enterprise sector - with the Clinton Foundation, Acumen Fund, Social Investment Business and Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC). He has started two social enterprises, one making jam with HIV positive women in Mozambique, and the other in healthcare in the UK. He is a Fellow of the RSA and an expert-in-residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University. He is originally from India, grew up from Ireland and calls London home. He studied in Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics.

When not absorbed in various sporting obsessions, he is busy spending time with his two young children and their sporting obsessions.