Christian Widhalm

CEO

Bloom Credit

Christian is the CEO of Bloom Credit, a financial data infrastructure company. With his leadership, Bloom Credit provides financial institutions with strategic relationships and critical innovations such as award winning Bloom+ for consumer-permissioned data (CPD) to enable access to validated financial data and reporting in real-time.

He has spent over 15 years working within venture-backed fintech providing innovative solutions to consumers and businesses in highly regulated industries. Prior to Bloom Credit, he was most recently at LendKey Technologies, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer and was responsible for the company’s relationships with over 300 banks and credit unions.

During Christian’s time as CEO, Bloom Credit has been widely recognized for its accomplishments in transforming the credit data ecosystem by Finovate's Best of Show (2024), Tearsheet's Data Innovation Award (2024) and has been recognized by Money 2020 Banking Awards (2025), Finovate for Excellence in Financial Inclusion (2025) and the CU Times Luminaries Awards (2025).

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