Kiran Kumar K V is a seasoned finance professional, educator, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience spanning banking, academia, and fintech research. He is the Founder CEO of The FinTech School (A nexus of Industry, Academia & Regulators of FinTech ecosystem) and Co-Founder of DeltaPe Technologies Private Limited (A web-based Payment & Lending platform for educational institutions).
His academic credentials include a Post-Graduate Diploma in Finance & Marketing, Masters Graduation in Commerce, and professional certifications including CFA (USA), CMA (India), and CAIIB. An accomplished author, Kiran previously published FinTech for Managers: A Handbook, which was widely accepted by readers across. His research area in PhD is Corporate Finance Behaviour and his research work has been published in ABDC-accredited journals, Scopus-indexed publications, and the CMA Research Bulletin.
An ex-banker and wealth manager, Kiran spent nearly 6 years at HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management, advancing to Associate Vice President - Premier. In his consulting practice, Kiran works as an External Audit Consultant for a US-based FinTech firm and serves numerous clients across USA, Singapore, and Japan. He extends his domain expertise to a number of startups and MSMEs, providing strategic guidance in technology solutions design for BFSI and wealth products, fintech strategy, startup finance, and HNI wealth advisory.
He has delivered FinTech & Financial Engineering courses as Guest Faculty at IIM Kozhikode, IIT Patna, and Masters' Union Gurugram, He holds Visiting Faculty positions at BITS Pilani (Hyderabad), TAPMI (Bangalore), Alliance University, NMIMS, We School & SIMS. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, Vidyashilp University, Ramaiah Institute of Management. He has mentored students of University of Chicago (UIC), Illinois, USA as part of a corporate mentoring program. His teaching portfolio encompasses FinTech, Financial Analytics, Financial Engineering, and AI in Finance, with proficiency in Excel, Python, PowerBI, Figma, R, and SPSS.