Paul Aitken

Paul Aitken founded borro in August 2008. borro is the leading personal asset lender in the UK. The company has created a new lending category and in 2011 has won UK Alternative Lender of the Year and an International Business Award.

borro offers loans from £1,000 - £1,000,000 secured against personal assets including jewellery, luxury watches, gold, fine art, antiques, sculptures, prestige cars, yachts, and other high value assets. All of borro's valuation experts are highly qualified and combined have over 50 years’ experience having worked for the leading auction houses including Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonham’s.

borro's board and investors have created, invested in, or managed a number of very successful online businesses: Sportingbet, Betfair, Egg, Linkedin, Groupon, Facebook, Lovefilm, BullionVault and First Direct.

Prior to founding borro, Paul was the founder and Managing Director of Movota, a provider of interactive mobile solutions to Europe’s leading TV and Radio broadcasters. He sold Movota to Bertelsmann in 2005. In 2007 he was the CEO through the successful sale process for an online video editing business backed by Benchmark Capital (eBay, Bebo, Betfair).

Paul is a prolific traveller, socialiser, and attends many sports and music events. Cycling, skiing and scuba diving also fill his time.

Paul also holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.