Andres Elizondo

Chief Financial Officer Provenir

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Andres Elizondo is Chief Financial Officer of Provenir, the AI-powered risk decisioning software company that banks, fintechs, lenders and telecom providers use for credit, fraud and identity decisions. He joined in September 2023. He came from Builder.ai, where he was Group CFO. Before that he was CFO for the EMEA region at Rackspace Technology and was part of the leadership team that took Rackspace public. He trained as a mechatronics engineer in Mexico before earning an MBA in London. Provenir hired him to support its expansion, and he leads its finance teams in New Jersey, the United Kingdom and India from London.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of Provenir since September 2023, serving on a leadership team headed by founder and CEO Larry Smith.
• Group CFO of software development platform Builder.ai before joining Provenir.
• CFO of the EMEA region at Rackspace Technology, and part of the leadership team that took the company public.
• More than 15 years of experience building and leading finance functions at global technology companies and private-equity-backed firms, according to Provenir.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey and an MBA from London Business School, completed together with The Wharton School.

Professional Journey

Elizondo began with engineering. He took a bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico and later moved into finance and strategy. He completed an MBA at London Business School, and Provenir says the degree was also completed at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Provenir describes his career as more than 15 years of building and leading finance functions at global technology companies and private-equity-backed firms. At Rackspace Technology, the cloud services company, he was CFO for the EMEA region and part of the leadership team that took the company public. He then became Group CFO at Builder.ai, a software development platform.

Provenir announced his appointment as Chief Financial Officer on 5 September 2023. Founder and CEO Larry Smith said Elizondo brought “a unique blend of technical knowledge and financial expertise” and would support Provenir’s expansion and market leadership goals. At the time of the announcement Elizondo was based in London. He took on Provenir’s global finance team across New Jersey, where the company is headquartered in Parsippany, the United Kingdom and India.

Provenir sells a cloud-native decisioning platform and a data marketplace. Financial services providers use them to automate credit risk, onboarding, customer management, collections, and fraud and identity decisions. Elizondo remains on Provenir’s leadership team as Chief Financial Officer.

Education

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Bachelor’s degree, Mechatronics Engineering

London Business School

MBA, completed at London Business School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania