“I started Sunny Day Fund® because I know what it’s like to live with financial insecurity and instability. I used to think it was just me who lived that way, but when I learned that I was actually the norm – that ‘the rest of us’ were actually the ‘most of us’ – I poured my heart into finding a way to create a truly inclusive, equitable, and resilient financial system. With the scars of COVID-19 fresh on our minds, I find hope in the incredible organizations that are achieving great outcomes by doing good by their employees – and we proudly serve both groups at Sunny Day Fund®.”
Sid Pailla
CEO
Our Mission
It’s now common knowledge that most of us cannot handle a $400 unexpected expense. We know that all stakeholders want this to change, but we are held back by a way of thinking that’s nearly a half a century old. Sunny Day Fund® exists to bridge the gap between financial stability today and financial freedom tomorrow – we are on a mission to truly enable financial well-being for ALL 152M American workers by partnering with the organizations that employ them. That’s why we are building innovative financial technologies, starting with employer-rewarded emergency savings that stabilizes workers’ finances and enables their pursuit of economic freedom. With Sunny Day Fund®, employers can help American workers save for brighter days ahead and grow with greater resiliency.
How We Collaborate
At Sunny Day Fund®, we believe that all hardworking Americans – including those so often overlooked – deserve financial security with dignity. We need our nation’s workers to have the resilience to pay for an unexpected car repair or a hospital visit without breaking a sweat. We want people to experience complete well-being – using some of their savings in the things that bring them joy. And we aspire to build partnerships with organizations that see employees as key stakeholders to their success in achieving this vision. We summarize this sentiment with the following values that harmonize our everyday work:
- Mutual respect powers mutual success
- Be flexible on the how, not the why
- Transparent communication drives trust, which drives teamwork, which drives outcomes
- Get to yes, even if not now, next time
- All competitive instincts are turned outward, not inward
Our Team
Sid Pailla
CEO & Founder
Ben Hays
Chief of Staff
Cyrus Bakhshi
Product
Pranitha Sama
Product
Samba Prudhivi
Engineering
Rachel Fox
Business Development
Tamara Hendricks
Customer Success
Josh Clark
Engineering
Les Williams
Business Development
Brian Schaaf
Engineering
Dhem De Mesa
Business Development
Mikel Brandy
Customer Success
Kiruba Govindan
Engineering
Naidu Nalli
Engineering
Raghava Pamula
Engineering
Akash Nair
Engineering
Liz Winston
CS + Marketing
Johann King
Business Development
Britney Phekoo
Prod + BizDev
Our Advisors
Tim O’Shea
Ceridian
Nancy Callahan
SAP
Ernesto Boada
Workday
Ashley Utz
CUNA Mutual
Farron Blanc
Legal & General America
Les Williams
Risk Cooperative
Our Investors
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