Founder & CEO Sam Payrovi is a 14 year investment banker turned serial entrepreneur. Graduating from UCLA with dual degrees in 2001, he joined Bear Stearns’ market leading mortgage analytics F.A.S.T. group. By 2006, he was running Royal Bank of Scotland’s Asset Backed Securities Structuring team, before launching a Fin-Tech mortgage startup, ProtEquity Group. In 2012, a trip to SE Asia inspired an entrepreneurial journey that would span multiple companies under one corporation, now culminating in ARKHAUS.