Jakarta, 29 July 2021: KoinWorks, a Super Financial App from Indonesia, has appointed Jim Geovedi as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Jim Geovedi is the second C Suite addition for KoinWorks in 2021, after Valdy Mustafa spearheads the Risk and Credit team as CRO starting April 2021.
KoinWorks started to disburse its first loan since 2016 to Digital SMEs with its crowdfunding platform together with lenders, and now has been helping SMEs with a larger ecosystem of products. Aside from Business Lending and P2P Investment, KoinWorks has evolved to provide Digital Gold Saving, AI based P2P Investment, Invoice Financing and Early Wages Access for Personal and Business users. Despite the pandemic, KoinWorks has grown tremendously and disbursed almost Rp1 trillion in the second quarter itself, the same disbursement value of the company in its first three years.
As the CTO of KoinWorks, Jim will lead all Technology, Data, and Engineer teams. He is responsible for scaling KoinWorks’ infrastructure and data governance across all products for Personal and Business Users. On top of the ISO 27001 certification that the company has earned, the addition of Jim is proof that KoinWorks takes technology, data, and security seriously.
“Jim is not an outsider of KoinWorks, he has been overseeing our growth since the beginning and helping us as Tech Advisor. Today, almost 1 million of users with KoinWorks app democratize the way people use finance; quick, transparent and customer centric. Appointing Jim into the C-Suite not only put a prominent foot on secure Financial App but also Smart, Jim’s experience in AI will bring forth the Smart Personalised Super Financial App for Personal and Business Owners.” – Benedicto Haryono Co Founder and CEO of KoinWorks.
Jim is an Innovation Catcher, he started to see that the Internet is the future borderless and boundless next generation, now it’s Fintech. He was CTO at OVO, where he helped the company to become one of the biggest e-wallet and payment firms in the country.
Prior to that, he has pioneered an Information Security consulting company and also Managed Security Service Provider, and has experience as information security consultant, technology advisor and digital innovation lead for several tech companies in Indonesia, such as online media outlet, Beritagar, conversational AI company, Kata.ai, and B2B commerce firm, Bizzy. His deep understanding and vast experience surely can help strengthen KoinWorks tech infrastructure, which is one of the most important aspects of the company’s business.
“Being an Advisor gives me a lot of insight about the company’s growth and it is fascinating to see how they transform Finance. KoinWorks is entering an interesting phase as it moves to become a complete Super Financial App, and it’s special to be a part of that. I’ve envisioned a multitude of ideas on how our vision can be implemented fully to a larger population of Indonesia. Building infrastructure and data governance for the future KoinWorks evolution and scale to be the first Fintech Unicorn Startup in Indonesia.” – Jim Geovedi CTO of KoinWorks.
Jim is set to start his journey with KoinWorks in mid of July 2021 and expand his team of Developers, Data Scientists and Engineers, Technical Operation and Security Engineers.
