Ep. 74: The Wizest Investment Combines People and Tech
Axel Thibon
Founder and CEO
Wizest
On This Episode
Axel Thibon, founder and CEO of Wizest, knows what it takes to build a financial company from scratch. Over the course of 3 years, Thibon built Wizest, a company focused on making investing more accessible and understandable.
Thibon knows technology is essential, especially as finance is becoming more and more digital. His goal with Wizest is to remove all of the drawbacks of traditional financing and combine those with new elements of technology to make investing easier. However, he emphasized the importance of maintaining human connections within the industry, “We need to bring back the human in the mix and try to make some hybrid solution that answers the needs of the consumer.”
Additionally, Thibon wanted to focus on making investing more inclusive and approachable. In previous years, investing has been a somewhat confusing and daunting task, but Wizest makes it easier for users to make investment decisions. “We know that with our philosophy and our approach, we are much more inclusive so that’s a great opportunity and a great signal.”
Thibon advised other entrepreneurs to not give up on their business goals. It was a long process to build a successful investing platform, but through persistence and focus, Thibon was able to develop Wizest.
Listen to this podcast episode to learn more about the latest in digital financing and investing with Hunter and Axel.
More About Axel
Axel started Wizest by bringing together the co-founding team around a clear vision and mission: building a solution that makes investing more approachable, collaborative and transparent. After an early career in France and Spain as an industrial engineer working mainly in the automotive industry, Axel came to the US to get his MBA from MIT. He then started his finance journey, serving as the head of strategy and transformation for two banks, leading areas like strategic and commercial planning, product development, marketing, operational efficiency, compliance, digital transformation and M&A. During this time, he managed an online bank, VirtualBank, and, before starting Wizest, launched another online bank from scratch, TotalDirectBank.
