Thomson Nguyen is the founder and CEO of Nearside, a financial services provider and neobanking platform built on the belief that starting a business should be easier. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge in applied mathematics and computational biology. A data scientist turned entrepreneur, Thomson is focused on providing an estimated 60 million entrepreneurs, micro-SMBs, freelancers, gigsters, and unbanked individuals with fair financial products.