Patrick Reily

Patrick Reily is a seasoned financial services professional with over 25 years of experience.12 He is the CEO and Co-founder of Verde International, a company he launched in 2006 to provide objective analytics and decision solutions to financial institutions.1 Reily is also the Co-founder of Uplinq, a position he has held since July 2021.13

Throughout his career, Reily has served in executive and P&L ownership roles with major US and multinational financial institutions.2 His expertise includes:

• Business startup and turnaround
• Credit risk and underwriting
• Marketing science
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Automated decision systems
• Financial performance analysis
• Regional economics2

Reily has been a pioneer in using unstructured and transactional data for predictive modeling since the late 1980s.2 His work has been applied in various areas, including underwriting, utilization, retention, optimization, offer management, cross-selling, customer service, and fraud prevention.2 Notably, his work has even been used by the Federal Reserve to predict macroeconomic expansion and contraction.2

In addition to his roles at Verde International and Uplinq, Reily has advised the United States Government and World Bank on credit lending and is a regular speaker at G20 events.4 His extensive experience and expertise have positioned him as a thought leader in the financial services industry, particularly in the realm of small business lending and credit decisioning.34