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Ashanti Bentil-Dhue

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Founder & CEO at Vera AI
📍 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Ashanti Bentil-Dhue is the Founder of Vera, an AI platform for ethical debt negotiation. With a background in regulatory compliance at Barclaycard and the Financial Ombudsman Service, she leverages her Law degree to build FCA-aligned fintech solutions. Colleagues describe her as incredibly educated, dynamic, and a natural leader.

Her professional mission is deeply personal, driven by her own experience of repaying £250k in debt. She is passionate about workplace equity and diversity, having also founded the Competence Centre for Workplace Equity to help leaders build more inclusive, data-driven organizations.

Unique fact: Ashantis venture into fintech was directly inspired by her personal journey of repaying significant debt, fueling her mission to empower consumers.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Ethical Debt Negotiation
Her company, Vera, is building AI infrastructure to help consumers negotiate debt on their own terms, with a strong focus on dignity and fairness.
AI in FinTech
She is actively building an AI-native platform to disrupt the debt recovery industry and speaks on leveraging AI for workforce transformation and consumer finance.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Founder & CEO
Vera AI
2-2016 - 2-2025
Founder & CEO
Competence Centre For Workplace Equity
4-2016 - 8-2016
Retail Compliance Consultant
Santander Consumer (UK) plc
2-2015 - 2-2016
AVP Barclaycard Compliance Advisory
Barclaycard
9-2011 - 2-2015
Senior Adjudicator
Financial Ombudsman Service
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Education
2008 - 2011
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
London Metropolitan University
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