# Larry Smith

> Larry Smith, also publicly identified as Lawrence Smith, is the American founder and CEO of Provenir, a financial-services decisioning software company. His career also includes founding and chairing Kitewheel and collaborating with John Lord on TruNarrative. His public statements emphasize making analytics usable, connecting data to decisions and serving customers faster.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Provenir
- **Organizations:** Provenir, Kitewheel, TruNarrative
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** New York University
- **Known for:** Named among The Financial Technology Report’s Top 50 US Financial Technology CEOs for 2021., Led Provenir when it ranked No. 4,430 on the 2021 Inc. 5000., Founded and chaired Kitewheel.

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Appointed director of Provenir (UK) Limited on June 25, according to Companies House.
- **2004** — Provenir’s corporate product timeline dates its first platform decisioning solution to this year.
- **2013-2021** — Founder and chairman of Kitewheel, with September 2013-June 2021 tenure listed by Crunchbase.
- **2017** — Discussed a developer building and deploying an Amazon Machine Learning model in under twenty minutes and operationalizing it in Provenir within hours.
- **2019** — TruNarrative’s US expansion announcement described the company as a collaboration between Smith and John Lord.
- **2021** — Recognized among The Financial Technology Report’s Top 50 US Financial Technology CEOs; Provenir joined the Inc. 5000.
- **2022** — Provenir established an India technology and operations hub and introduced Provenir Brazil.
- **2026** — Provenir launched a decision intelligence platform with agentic AI capabilities in February; its leadership page continues to list Smith as founder and CEO.

## Achievements

- Named among The Financial Technology Report’s Top 50 US Financial Technology CEOs for 2021.
- Led Provenir when it ranked No. 4,430 on the 2021 Inc. 5000.
- Founded and chaired Kitewheel.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Provenir announced a decision intelligence platform with agentic AI capabilities on February 13.
- **2026-10** — Provenir’s current leadership page lists Larry Smith as founder and CEO; its homepage reports 120+ financial services providers in 60+ countries and more than 4 billion decisions annually.

## Links

- Website: https://www.provenir.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrence-smith-43a03959

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Last updated: 2026-10-25