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Tara Sandhu

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Fractional Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Kinara Solutions
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Tara Sandhu is the Founder and CEO of Kinara Solutions, where she serves as a fractional risk and compliance officer for early-stage fintechs. Leveraging her experience as Head of Risk at Mercury, she specializes in building and scaling risk and compliance programs. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Outside of her professional work, Tara is a parent who deeply values work-life balance. She prioritizes spending quality time with her son, such as having dinner and bath time together, and openly discusses the personal challenges and burnout associated with entrepreneurship.

She once turned down a $5 million offer to sell her business to protect her 3-4 day workweeks and time with her family.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Fractional Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Fintech Risk & Compliance
Her consultancy, Kinara Solutions, is dedicated to helping early-stage fintechs build and scale their risk and compliance programs from the ground up.
Startup Advising
She actively works with and promotes startups she advises, like Frame and Castle, helping them build out foundational functions like risk management.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Fractional Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Kinara Solutions
10-2023
Founder & CEO - Risk, Compliance and Business Strategy Consulting
Kinara Solutions
6-2023 - 11-2023
Head of Risk Programs and Financial Crimes
Mercury
3-2023 - 6-2023
Head of Risk Programs
Mercury
2021 - 2022
VP of Operations
Agora
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Education
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Northeastern University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Denison University
CFE
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
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