Co-Founder & COO, BrainGain Global

Aziz Lalljee is co-founder and COO of BrainGain Global, a SAAS-enabled marketplace for higher education content, tools and programs. 

In 2017, Aziz co-founded Zinc Mission 1, a London-based social incubator. Previously, he was a co-founder of Finom, a U.S.-based fintech platform connecting individual and small institutional investors with the best financial planners and wealth managers. Finom’s goals were achieved by empowering retail investors through data and personalization. 

He has also been a managing director at VentureDNA, an early-stage investment firm, and a senior consultant at Navigant, working on financial and regulatory matters. Since 2015, he has advised Africa Tech Ventures, a seed-stage fund supporting scalable, technology enabled businesses in East Africa.

Aziz holds an  MBA with honors from the Universityof Chicago Booth School of Business, a  B.S. in economics from the Wharton School, and a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania.  

Originally from India and the New York City area, Lalljee has lived and worked in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, East Africa, and India. He enjoys playingand watching tennis, reading history and political philosophy, and cheering his wife's comedy career.