Richard Duvall was a senior member of the Prudential team that set up Egg, the UK's first internet bank, in 1997. He was Egg's launch director and later its chief marketing officer.
Zopa was started by a team from Egg. Duvall was a co-founder with Giles Andrews, James Alexander, David Nicholson and Tim Parlett, and was the company's first chief executive. It launched in March 2005 as a peer-to-peer lender, an eBay for money.
Duvall died in 2006. Giles Andrews went on to lead Zopa for many years.
Zopa passed £2bn in loans in January 2017, received a full banking licence in June 2020 and left peer-to-peer lending in December 2021. It raised $300m in October 2021 at a valuation of about $1bn.