Hardy Michel is Co-Founder and CEO of Marloo, a London-based AI platform purpose-built to automate the administrative and compliance workflows of financial advisers, replacing legacy tools with an intelligent operating system.

Hardy honed his fintech expertise as Head of Operations at Wellington-based share trading platform Sharesies, before relocating to London in 2022 to join Estonian investing platform Lightyear, where he helped launch the product across 22 European countries.

Hardy is a product-obsessed builder who spent six months embedded with adviser firms before writing a single line of code, and negotiated zero data retention agreements with both OpenAI and Anthropic to ensure enterprise-grade compliance.

Prior to Marloo, Hardy's operational roles at Sharesies and Lightyear gave him deep expertise in scaling regulated fintech products across multiple jurisdictions, experience that directly shaped Marloo's compliance-first architecture.

In under a year, Marloo has raised $12.7M in total funding led by Blackbird Ventures, grown to serve over 650 advisory firms across six countries, and sustained over 40% month-on-month revenue growth with near-zero churn.