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Yanir Yakutiel 🎗️

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Founder & CEO at Lumi
📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia

Yanir Yakutiel is the Founder and CEO of Lumi, an Australian FinTech disruptor providing fast and flexible finance to small businesses. With a background in law, finance, and maritime logistics, he holds an MBA from INSEAD and dual degrees from Tel Aviv University. Colleagues and partners describe him as bright, serious, and socially intelligent.

Family is a significant driver for Yanir; he built his business with flexibility in mind to spend more time with his wife, a cardiac anaesthetist, and their son. He prioritizes his sons school drop-offs and pick-ups, even factoring the logistics into his choice of office space.

He has a unique career trajectory, transitioning from co-founding and managing dry bulk shipping companies to disrupting Australias SME lending market.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Sydney Area, Australia
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Priorities

Topics Yanir cares about

Small Business Lending
Founded Lumi to address a gap in the market, providing Australian SMEs with faster, fairer access to capital than traditional banks.
FinTech Disruption
Passionate about creating technology-driven, data-centric alternatives to traditional banking, aiming to revolutionize the user experience in financial services.
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Career

Work history

8-2018
Founder & CEO
Lumi
1-2016 - 7-2018
Founder and CEO of Sail
Sail
2013 - 12-2015
Managing Director | Senior Executive - Shipping, Logistics & Investment
Pangaea Maritime
2011 - 2013
CEO | Commercial Director
Delta Shipping
2008 - 2010
Global Head of Business Development
ICAP Shipping
In the press

Media appearances

Yanir Yakutiel, Founder and CEO of Lumi - Dynamic Business. Featured in Dynamic Business
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Balancing the Grind With Yanir Yakutiel, Founder & CEO at Lumi. Featured in Balancing the Grind
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Education
2006 - 2006
MBA
INSEAD
1996 - 2000
LL.B
Tel Aviv University
1996 - 2000
Bachelor’s Degree
Tel Aviv University
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