Nilan Hilarion Peiris

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningConsumerData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkMarketplacesSocial

Investments

Per curated public sources.

Frequently asked questions

Is Nilan Peiris Wise's Chief Product & Technology Officer?

No. Wise and its SEC filings identify him as Chief Product Officer. Harsh Sinha is listed separately as Chief Technology Officer. Peiris previously held combined marketing-technology leadership at Holiday Extras, which may explain the confusion.

What is his current Wise remit?

Public biographies describe responsibility for growth across Wise's products and platform and for product, design, analytics and sales across product lines and geographies.

What did he do before Wise?

He worked at Accenture, including an Oxfam e-commerce role, then led web and marketing technology at Holiday Extras and served as VP Growth at HouseTrip. He advised TransferWise from 2012 before joining full time in 2014.

Which Wise launches are attributable to him?

Wise's official biography says he played a pivotal role in launching the Wise Account and Wise Platform. The account idea was bottom-up from customer research, so the accurate formulation is product leadership contribution rather than sole invention.

What is his growth philosophy?

Build a product dramatically better on customer-relevant dimensions, make the delivered value legible, measure recommendation and NPS drivers, and let growth follow from customer advocacy rather than relying on paid acquisition alone.

Does he still believe in autonomous teams?

He now prefers 'highly empowered teams.' He retains devolved customer-problem ownership but says scale requires clearer quality standards, strategy communication, budget coordination and intervention when teams do not stop failed work.

What board roles does he hold?

He has been an OakNorth Bank independent non-executive director since 2 September 2024. His earlier statutory executive directorship at Holiday Extras ended in November 2012; he is not a Wise plc director.

Which personal investments are documented?

Deal-level evidence supports Chattermill, Lightyear, Griffin, tem, Dex and Granola, plus his seed investment in Daring Capital. Daring's report says he has also invested in businesses it supports, but unnamed syndicate companies are not automatically added to his personal portfolio.

What is his investment check size?

No reliable personal minimum or maximum is public. Published amounts are total company rounds, and directory 'average round' figures must not be represented as his checks.

Has he had a documented personal investment exit?

No realized exit, proceeds or written-off investment was verified in the reviewed public record.

How should Wise's regulatory setbacks be attributed to him?

They are material company outcomes during his product leadership and belong in the chronology, particularly where product controls were involved. The cited orders and decisions do not name Peiris as personally liable or establish that he alone owned sanctions, AML, legal or banking-charter decisions.

Who is Nilan Hilarion Peiris?

Nilan Hilarion Peiris is a British product, growth and technology executive. After a mathematics degree at Bristol, he spent 2000-2008 at Accenture, including an embedded Head of eCommerce assignment at Oxfam, then led web technology and marketing technology at Holiday Extras and European growth at HouseTrip. He began advising TransferWise in 2012, joined full time as VP Growth in 2014 and became Wise's Chief Product Officer in April 2021. Official Wise biographies credit him with pivotal roles in launching the multi-currency Wise Account and Wise Platform; his remit covers product, design, analytics and sales, while technology remains a separate C-suite function. During his Wise tenure the company developed from an early transfer product into a listed global payments network serving 18.9 million active customers and moving $243.5 billion in FY2026, with 75% of Q4 transfers arriving in under 20 seconds. These are team and company outcomes under his product leadership, not solo accomplishments. His public product philosophy emphasizes a materially better customer experience, word of mouth, measurable customer-value KPIs, empowered teams and explicit quality standards as organizations scale. He joined OakNorth Bank's board in September 2024 and supports purpose-led founders through Daring Capital. Deal-level evidence supports angel participation in Chattermill, Griffin, tem, Dex and Granola, plus an investment and advisory relationship with Lightyear and an equity investment in Daring Capital; no personal check sizes or realized exits are public. The truth-first record also includes Wise's 2023 sanctions disclosure, 2025 US consumer and AML orders, service incidents and 2026 OCC charter denial, without assigning Peiris personal misconduct or sole responsibility where sources do not do so.

What does Nilan Hilarion Peiris invest in?

Nilan Hilarion Peiris invests in AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Marketplaces, Social.

What companies has Nilan Hilarion Peiris invested in?

Investments tracked here include Chattermill, Daring Capital, Dex, Granola, GRIFFIN, Lightyear, Tem.