Atul Kamra is Managing Partner of SixThirty, a global FinTech accelerator and venture fund. SixThirty attracts the most innovative FinTech start-ups from across the globe, and works with like-minded corporate partners and mentors to accelerate their growth. It is a partnership between the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Cultivation Capital.

Prior to his role at SixThirty, Atul served as Senior Managing Director and head of Advice for Wells Fargo Advisors, overseeing investment research, strategy, portfolio management and advice quality, serving 15,000 financial advisors, 3.3 million client households and $1.3Tn in client assets. In previous roles, Atul was President of First Clearing, Wells Fargo’s clearing business. He joined Wells Fargo from Booz & Co, where he was a Partner and Practice Leader of Booz’s Capital Markets & Wholesale Banking business. In earlier roles with American Express Bank in India, he was a relationship manager with the Corporate Banking Group and managed the western region’s Capital Markets Group.

Active in civic and community affairs, Atul’s passion is around education, entrepreneurship and diversity. He was the architect and executive leader of Wells Fargo’s partnership with the St. Louis Public Schools, the firm’s signature community effort. He serves on the boards of the Center of Creative Arts (COCA), the St. Louis Public Schools Foundation, Teach For America – St. Louis, St. Louis Fashion Fund & Incubator, and Prosper Institute, a non-profit organization focused on training and mentoring growth-seeking women entrepreneurs. He is a member of the Greater St. Louis Financial Forum, a CEO-led industry round table and is on the Board of Advisors of Olin School of Business’ CFAR at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Atul and his wife, Anjali, live in St. Louis, with their two children, Armaan and Veda. Atul grew up in Mumbai, India. He has a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Bombay University, where he was awarded a National Merit Scholarship and has a license to practice as a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He attended Duke University in Durham, NC, where he earned his MBA degree on a Rotary International scholarship.