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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Consumer Lending space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Greg Kidd
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of GlobaliD
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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About Apto Payments, GlobaliD, Hard Yaka: Create and manage your own portable, digital identity with globaliD.
James Paris
CEO of Avant
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About Avant, Avant: Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Vishal Garg
Founder & CEO of Better.com
Vishal Garg is the Founder and CEO of Better.com, a digital-first homeownership company whose services included mortgage, real estate, title, and homeowners insurance. A serial entrepreneur, the day that he came up with the idea behind Better.com, Vishal was simply looking to purchase a home for his growing family (and not start a new company). When Vishal’s effort to buy his family’s dream house was defeated by an antiquated homeownership process, the vision and mission for Better.com was born. Vishal Garg’s Better.com all-in-one digital platform takes customers through the entire home-buying process, from finding an agent to securing a mortgage (or refinanced loan) to shopping for insurance. To date, under Vishal Garg’s leadership, Better.com has done over $46.9 BN in home loans and provided over $16B in cumulative coverage through Better Cover and Better Settlement Services, the insurance divisions of Better.com. Better.com has raised over $400M in equity capital and is backed by L Catterton, Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs, American Express Ventures, Citi and other investors. In December 2019, HousingWire honored Vishal Garg with the “2019 Vanguard Award”, which recognizes leaders of businesses contributing to the growth of the housing economy. In July of 2020, Comparably surveyed employees of color to rate the top CEOs driving diversity and inclusive work culture. The results ranked Garg at #13 out of 25, placing him alongside leaders at organizations like Microsoft and Google. In September of 2020, Business Insider named Vishal Garg as one of the “100 People Transforming Business in 2020”. And, in October of 2020, Ernst & Young included Garg on the “Entrepreneur of the Year 2020” list. Vishal Garg is also the founding partner of 1/0 Capital. Previously, Vishal was Co-head and Managing Partner, ARAM ABS Group ($6 B+ assets) and the Founder and President & CFO of MyRichUncle (2005 NASDAQ IPO), which he founded at the age of 21 and built into the fourth largest private student loan originator in the US. Prior toMyRichUncle, Vishal was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisition dept. at Morgan Stanley, and a frontier emerging markets portfolio manager for the Strategos Fund. He is a graduate of NYU Stern with the highest honors.
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About Better.com, Phoenix Holdings: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Rob Frohwein
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Kabbage
Rob founded Kabbage to get small businesses capital quickly, an area in which banks have long struggled. He believes deeply that small businesses are at the core of economic development around the world. Rob’s also a 3-time author, former co-host of a radio show, inventor with more than 30 patents and applications — and the owner of a lifetime pass to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Favorite small business: Bull’s BBQ at Citizen’s Bank Park, owned by former Philadelphia Phillie Greg Luzinski.
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About Drum, Kabbage: Kabbage is a fintech company that offers cash flow management solutions to small businesses.
Chris Bridges
CEO & Co-Founder of VITAL CARD
Co-Founder of VITAL CARD.VITAL is the world’s first social credit card that offers unlimited cash back rewards when you use it and share it. The more you share, the more you earn!
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About Grays Peak Capital LP, VITAL CARD: VITAL is the credit card that pays you to share and spend responsibly.
Justin Wickett
CEO and Co-founder of Informed.IQ
Justin Wickett is the CEO and Co-founder at Informed.IQ.
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About Informed.IQ: Informed is a developer of a consumer auto financing platform designed to collect and analyze loan documents.
Rafael Pereira
CEO & Co-founder of Rebel
I am a tech entrepreneur with many years of expertise in building companies from the ground up across a variety of industry. Having learned how to program C at age 11, I still code to the day as a hobby (mostly burning the midnight oil) and my main areas of expertise are business development and product. However, I’ve found that my passion is to build amazing teams, which in turn create great companies. I now invest most of my time on listening to my teams and trying to figure out how I can best contribute with my experience and skill sets to their success. (worst case scenario they can at least learn from my mistakes…)
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About Open Co (Brazil), Rebel: Alternative Online Lending, FinTech, online credit, Personal financial management
Gregory Keough
Chief Executive Officer of Finova Financial
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About Finova Financial, Institute for Blockchain Innovation: Fast affordable online loans based on the equity in your car
Joshua Wyss
Co-Founder & CEO of Inclined Technologies
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About Granite Peak, Inclined Technologies: Inclined pioneers a new form of lending in a large and vastly underserved market.
Meidad Sharon
Founder and CEO of ChargeAfter
Meidad is a long-time high-tech industry veteran and a sought-after conference speaker. As the prior Vice President of Marketing for the SafeCharge International Group, Meidad has a wealth of experience with financial and forex industries. Meidad is an expert at demonstrating how simple payment processing and fraud prevention solutions can meet complex needs, and lead to maximum profitability and a seamless end-user experience.
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About ChargeAfter: ChargeAfter is the global multi-lender network for point-of-sale financing.
Ben Johnson
Founder & CEO of Spruce
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About Spruce: Spruce develops a platform that enables individuals to receive services in their homes through a mobile app.
Diwakar Choubey
Co-Founder & CEO of MoneyLion
Diwakar Choubey (“Dee”) is the Founder & CEO of MoneyLion. After beginning his career in investment banking, Dee co-founded MoneyLion in 2013 with the goal of combining AI and machine-learning technology and behavioral science to bring consumer finance into the future. During his time on Wall Street, Dee held senior positions at leading financial firms including Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Barclays Capital, where he advised M&A and capital raising deals with a specific focus on payments and specialty finance companies. Dee holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from the University of Chicago.
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About MoneyLion: MoneyLion is a mobile banking platform for borrowing, saving, and investing.
Susan Ehrlich
Chief Executive Officer of Earnest
Susan’s experience in financial services spans from traditional banking to fintech. In addition to her role as Chief Executive Officer at Earnest, Susan serves as Chairman of the Board of BECU, the nation’s 4th largest credit union. Previously, she was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Simple Financial Technology, a BBVA subsidiary. Susan also spent years immersed in fintech, as a consultant for Lending Club and as a General Manager for Amazon. Susan was recognized on “American Banker”magazine’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance list three years in a row, and has served as Chairman of the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) in Chicago, IL and on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. Susan holds a B.A. with honors in organizational behavior and management from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About BECU, Earnest: Earnest is a technology-lender that brings low-interest loans to high-potential people.
Damian Langere
CEO / Co-Founder of Domuso
Damian Langere is Founder at Domuso Inc.
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About Domuso, Gelt Venture Capital, Gelt, Inc.: Domuso is a next-gen financial services platform offering comprehensive payment processing solutions for multifamily properties.
Ola Okeshola
CEO of Gerald
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About Gerald: Gerald is transforming how consumers track, manage, finance and pay their household bills by offering overdraft and late fee protection.
Mary Ann McGarry
President and CEO, Partner of Guild Mortgage
Ms. McGarry has been a member of Guild’s Board of Directors since 1988. Ms. McGarry leads the development and execution of the company’s strategic plans and objectives and directs all corporate and subsidiary operations. Ms. McGarry, who began her career with Guild in 1984, has been one of the driving forces in formulating and executing Guild’s financial, operational and technology strategies. She began as a supervisor in Internal Audit and within 3 years was Senior Vice President of Loan Administration and Information Technology. She reorganized the Loan Administration Division and led the development and creation of the proprietary servicing software. She continued developing software applications to increase operational and financial efficiencies as she held a number of other executive positions: Chief Financial Officer, Chief Production Operations Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Guild, Ms. McGarry was employed by the public accounting firm Peat, Marwick, Mitchell. She was trained as a Certified Public Accountant and serves on the Investment Committee and the Servicing Committee of the Mortgage Bankers Association, and on the FNMA Advisory Council. Ms. McGarry received a B.B.A. degree in Accounting with a minor in Computer Science in 1980 from the University of San Diego.
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About Guild Mortgage: Guild Mortgage is a growth-oriented mortgage company headquartered in San Diego.
Raul Vazquez
CEO of Oportun
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About Oportun: Oportun is a fintech company that provides financial services from personal loans to financial resources.
Patrick Boyaggi
Co-Founder and CEO of Own Up
Patrick forged a successful career as a Senior VP, responsible for Residential Lending at a top-50 national lender — closing $11 billion in residential mortgages. He believes everyone should understand their mortgage and is passionate about Own Up’s ability to improve the futures of our customers.
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About Own Up: Own Up provides a software solution that enables residential lending from various lenders.
Sam Ulloa
CEO & Co-Founder of Listo
Samuel Ulloa is a Co-Founder & Board Member at Listo Unlimited. He is also Co-Founder, COO & Board Member at Rising Farmworker Dream Fund. Mr. Ulloa is a Sr. Director, Head of Sales & Service and Principal/Sr. Director, Head of Merchant Sales at Progress Financial. Samuel graduated from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo with a bachelor of arts in Electrical Engineering and earned an MBA in General Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About Listo: Listo is a consumer financial services company offering insurance and loans via retail and mobile experience.
Robert Pines
Chairman, CEO & Founder of kgb
Robert Pines is the Chairman & Founder at kgb. Robert Pines is Chairman of kgb, which he co-founded in 1992. Robert has directed the growth of kgb from five employees at its launch to more than 7,000 employees today, worldwide. He is based in New York City. Before founding kgb, Robert worked at Lehman Brothers in the investment banking department and at the management consulting firm Corporate Decisions, Inc., which is now part of Mercer Consulting. Robert holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, cum laude, from Harvard College. An MBA with honors from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
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About kgb: kgb is a privately-held, New York-based company that provides its users with directory assistance and enhanced information services.
Scott Sanborn
Chief Executive Officer of Lending Club
Scott Sanborn is CEO of LendingClub. Appointed in June 2016, he was charged by the Board of Directors with transforming the company and bringing a heightened degree of transparency and disciplined growth to LendingClub operations. A six year veteran of the company, Scott previously held the roles of President, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Operations Officer. He helped lead the company through a prolonged period of triple digit growth that led to its 2014 IPO, and has been a driving force in the management and development of the organization. Before joining LendingClub, Scott was the Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer for eHealth Insurance, a publicly traded ecommerce company, where he helped create double digit growth in revenue and new customer acquisition. His earlier roles included having been President of RedEnvelope, Inc., an e-commerce and catalogue retailer of upscale gifts, and Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Home Shopping Network, a television and internet retailer of consumer products. Scott holds a BS from Tufts University.
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About Lending Club, Lending Club, Lending Club: Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors.
Stephen Dash
Founder & CEO of Credible
Stephen is the Founder and CEO of Credible. He founded Credible because of sheer disbelief at the burden student debt placed on young Americans (a problem that does not exist in his native Australia). Stephen is still recovering from his many years as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan – where he spent his days (and nights) analyzing and advising major international banks on operations, M&A, capital adequacy and funding. More recently he founded QC Media and was an Investment Director at MHC & Co.
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About Credible: Credible is a multi-lender marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted lenders.
Rick O’Donnell
Founder & CEO of Skills Fund
Rick is founder and CEO of Skills Fund, a quality-assurance and student financing platform. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of College Portfolio, which was later acquired by Fullbridge. He is a three-time cabinet appointee in Colorado, including serving as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education and the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. Passionate about education reform and entrepreneurship, he was the Founding President of The Fund for Colorado’s Future and President of the Acton Foundation of Entrepreneurial Excellence. Rick currently serves on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
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About Skills Fund, U.S. Department of Education: Education financing done right, enabling a Return on Education for all.
Rick O’Donnell
Founder & CEO of Skills Fund
Rick is founder and CEO of Skills Fund, a quality-assurance and student financing platform. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of College Portfolio, which was later acquired by Fullbridge. He is a three-time cabinet appointee in Colorado, including serving as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education and the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. Passionate about education reform and entrepreneurship, he was the Founding President of The Fund for Colorado’s Future and President of the Acton Foundation of Entrepreneurial Excellence. Rick currently serves on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
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About Skills Fund, U.S. Department of Education: Education financing done right, enabling a Return on Education for all.
Jason Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of DeFiner
Jason Wu is the founder and CEO of DeFiner. He has a profound knowledge in applying blockchain technology into solving real world problems. As a current member of the CFA institute, he is a passionate advocate for financial inclusion and open finance with the help of blockchain, smart contract and sharing economy. Jason has quickly established himself as a subject matter expert and adviser to numerous organizations in the areas of token economics, smart contact integration and blockchain architecture. In 2018, Jason established Definer.org lending platform to simplify the process of decentralized digital currency transactions. Jason holds an MBA with Honors from Ohio State University
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About DeFiner: DeFiner is a decentralized finance network for crypto savings, loans, and payments.
Tyler Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of Reali
Tyler is a strategic go-to-market leader who has successfully launched global products at scale. He leads the sales, marketing, and operations teams and focuses on building Reali’s rapidly expanding operations. Before joining Reali, Tyler was formerly Head of Sales for the Mid-Market and Enterprise team for LinkedIn Elevate. Tyler also led the Global Sales Strategy & Operations team for LinkedIn’s Sales Solutions. Tyler also spent three years at McKinsey & Company where he advised Fortune 500 companies and their executive teams. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and earned his MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Reali: Reali is a real estate and fintech company that is creating a one-stop-shop to make homeownership simple, affordable and stress-free.
David Zalik
Co-founder & CEO of GreenSky
Mr. Zalik is the co-founder of GreenSky and has served as Chief Executive Officer since its founding in 2006. Mr. Zalik built his first company, MicroTech Information Systems at the age of fourteen while in college at Auburn University. He also co-founded Phoenix, LLC (Commercial Real Estate Investments) and Outweb, Inc. (Business Technology Automation). Mr. Zalik has served on the Board of Directors of Hands on Atlanta, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Marcus Community Center. He was awarded the 2016 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year®, received the 2000 Abe Schwartz Young Leadership Award and 2003 Catalyst Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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About GreenSky: GreenSky is a FinTech platform that enables merchants to offer payment and loan services for consumers.
Luan Cox
Founder & CEO of FinMkt
Luan is the founder and CEO of FinMkt, a provider of embedded SaaS digital lending technology and multi-lender point of sale financing platform, which has processed billions in loan application volume since launching in 2016. Prior to FinMkt, Luan served as the General Manager and Vice President of Interactive Data Managed Solutions – Americas, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Stockpoint, and Executive Director of Partner Solutions for Quote.com. She is an alumna and advisor to the Springboard Accelerator program comprised of the world’s top women-led media and technology companies and is a Techstars mentor for its fintech accelerator. In 2019, Ms. Cox was named to NYC FinTech Women’s Inspiring Fintech Females list in recognition of her outstanding leadership and support for the community of women in financial technology. She was named as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology of 2020 and Top 50 Financial Technology CEOs of 2022 by the Financial Technology Report. In 2021, she was on the Top 100 Women in Fintech list by Fintech Magazine. Since launch, FinMkt has experienced exponential growth and earned the trust of major lenders, home improvement companies and healthcare providers.
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About CFPA, FinMkt: Revolutionizing point of sale financing through our highly customizable SaaS, multi-lender, omni-channel platform.
Peter Korbel
CEO/Founder of StoreMe
StoreMe, Founder Blender Workspace, Co-Founder Fojol Brothers, Co-Founder
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About 135 Madison, StoreMe: StoreMe is a mobile app that enables on-demand storage by the hour or day in retail stores.
Josh Abramowitz
Co-Founder and CEO of Bread
Josh Abramowitz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bread. He is also the chairman of Deep Creek Capital LLC, a firm that invests in a broad variety of assets and securities. Additionally, he is a lecturer at Yale Law School. Mr. Abramowitz is also an active investor in the early-stage venture capital market.
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About Bread, Deep Creek Capital: Bread partners with retailers to offer pay-over-time solutions that make financing easier and more transparent.
Arianna Armelli
CEO & Founder of Dorothy
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About Dorothy: Dorothy prepares and protects your home or business before, during and after disaster events.
Modjossorica Elysee
Founder & CEO of BeautyLynk
Rica Elysee is the founder and CEO of BeautyLynk, a tech company focused on transforming the beauty industry with technology. Before to devoting her work full time to BeautyLynk, Rica served as a Nonprofit Fundraising Executive for local to national organizations focused on empowerment and education. Aside from her entrepreneurial pursuits she enjoys art, food and laughter.
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About BeautyLynk: We bring hair & makeup pros to your doorstep! Convenient and professional services for women of all complexions & hair textures.
Brian Sondey
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Triton Container International
Brian Sondey is their Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and has served as a director of their Company since July 2016. Upon the closing of the Merger of TCIL and TAL in July 2016, Brian Sondey, who had served as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TAL since 2004, became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Triton. Brian Sondey joined TAL’s former parent, Transamerica Corporation, in April 1996 as Director of Corporate Development. He then joined TAL International Container Corporation in November 1998 as Senior Vice President of Business Development. In September 1999, Brian Sondey became President of TAL International Container Corporation. Prior to his work with Transamerica Corporation and TAL International Container Corporation, Brian Sondey worked as a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a Mergers & Acquisitions Associate at J.P. Morgan. Brian Sondey holds an MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA degree in Economics from Amherst College.
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About Triton Container International: Triton Container International owns and commercialize containers for multipurpose cargo loading around the world.
Garrett Smith
Founder & CEO of Community Capital Technology
Garrett Smith is the CEO & Founder at Community Capital Technology.
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About Community Capital Technology: Community Capital Technology is a provider of digital loan trading exchange and business intelligence platform.
Luke Johnson
CEO, Founder of Neat Capital
CEO, Founder at Neat Capital, Inc.
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About Neat Capital: Neat Capital is a FinTech mortgage lender setting out to make financing a home as frictionless as using cash.
Vince Passione
Founder & CEO of LendKey Technologies
Vince is chief executive officer and founder of LendKey, driving the vision and strategy for the company while overseeing the executive management team. Vince has extensive experience running successful financial services and high tech companies nationwide.
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About LendKey Technologies: LendKey Technologies develops a cloud-based platform which connects lenders with borrowers and facilitates online lending of loans.
April Foster
CEO of Inked Brands
April Foster is the founder and CEO of Inked Brands, the leader in influencer commerce. In 2007, as a blogger and craft enthusiast, she originally founded Studio Calico where she built a subscription scrapbooking service that combined content with commerce. Studio Calico was named to the Inc5000 list 4 consecutive years as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Since then, April has been pioneering influencer commerce as the founder and CEO of Inked. She’s obsessed with combining relevant products, paid content, and smart marketing with influencer brands such as Studio DIY, The Bucket List Family, Meghan Rienks, and Ali Edwards.
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About Inked Brands: Inked enables ecommerce by empowering influencers to leverage their social media followers to create a lasting revenue stream
Mark Maurice
CEO of Lenme
Entrepreneur and CEO of Lenmo.
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About American Tech and Management University, Golden Gate University, Lenme: Lenme is the subscription-based peer-to-peer lending platform in the small amount loan market.
Bo Brustkern
Co-Founder and CEO of LendIt
Bo Brustkern is co-founder and CEO of LendIt Fintech, the world’s largest event series that provides context to the rapidly-changing universe of technology’s impact on financial services. For over 20 years, he has set himself apart as a leader in understanding, funding, and leading cutting-edge developments in fintech and financial services. His experience includes private equity, venture capital, fixed income, asset management, and investment research. In addition to co-founding LendIt Fintech, he co-founded Arcstone Valuation (2006), Arcstone Equity Research (2010), Cardinal Rose Group (2013), and NSR Invest (2013). Previously, he was a venture capitalist at Rustic Canyon Partners in Silicon Valley, and a private equity investor at BACE Industries in Denver, Colorado. Prior to his career as a private equity investor, he was a senior analyst at Wellsford Residential Property Trust (NYSE: WRP), where he focused on acquisitions and development for the fifth-largest residential REIT in the country.
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About LendIt: The largest conference series dedicated to connecting the global fintech & lending communities.
Whitney Anderson
Co-Founder, CEO of Fraud.net
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About Fraud.net: The Future of Fraud Prevention – fraud detection, intelligence augmentation, and live-streaming visualizations.
Shantanu Sharma, Ph.D.
CEO, Co-Founder of Stem Lending
Shantanu Sharma, Ph.D., is CEO and Co-Founder of STEM Lending. NMLS: 1677482 (Individual), 1648699 (Company) Earlier, Shantanu was CTO at Yellowdig, a venture-funded startup in Philadelphia, leading its technology, data science and research initiatives. Even before, Shantanu was a VP in Goldman Sachs’ Technology Division, responsible for developing software products for Goldman Sachs Asset Management trading desk. Even earlier, Shantanu was a Lead Scientist at GE, leading global teams of scientists to find patterns in imaging, sequencing big data. He was an early employee at Mismi – a TL Ventures funded algorithmic trading start-up, Vice President Technology role at Citigroup, and a hedge fund Strategist at Tower Research Capital. Shantanu holds a PhD with Computational Biophysics emphasis from UNC Chapel Hill and a BTech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He has taught courses to graduate and undergraduate level students. Shantanu’s professional experience spans finance, healthcare/life sciences, information technology, corporate research and higher education. Shantanu earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a PhD with research on Simulation and Computational Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has won multiple awards and fellowships for his research. His articles are cited by hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, including Cell, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Methods.
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About Stem Lending: StemLending.com offers nation’s easiest mortgage service, helping home buyers comparison shop and close with their best mortgage option.
Daniel Greenshields
President and CEO of JetClosing
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About JetClosing: JetClosing is a digital real estate title and escrow company that aims to create a modern and user-friendly real estate closing experience.
Joshua Jersey
Co-Founder & CEO of DigiFi
Joshua Jersey is the Co-Founder of Satellite Innovations and CEO/Co-Founder at DigiFi.
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About DigiFi, Satellite Innovations: DigiFi is the next-gen platform for automated digital lending.
Gary Gal
Chief Executive Officer of Qualitas Loans
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About Qualitas Loans: Full service origination and servicing loan company
Troy Anderson
CEO of 3530 Technologies
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About 3530 Technologies: Leading edge, cloud based loan origination solutions for consumer, online, business and indirect lending.
Aaron Ledbetter
Founder & CEO of LendFu
Founder & CEO at LendFu
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About LendFu: Peer-to-peer Lending Marketplace for fair Payday Loans
Deborah McKetty
President, CEO,Founder of CommunityWorks
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About CommunityWorks: CommunityWorks, a non-profit financial organization, helps people become financially stable through education, lending, and investing.
John Zmolek
Chief Executive Officer of Verity Credit Union
John is passionate about helping members empower their financial lives and ensuring that Verity is at the heart of the communities we serve. He began his journey with Verity as a board member in 1986 before joining staff as CFO in 1990. He stepped up to the CEO position on January 1, 2014. In this role, he manages the operations of the credit union while working closely with the board of directors to set the course of the credit union. John received his BS in economics from Iowa State University and his MS from University of California-Davis. He has a hobby of serving on nonprofit boards. Whether kayaking, bicycling or hiking, he likes to be outdoors. When indoors, he loves cooking and entertaining.
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About Verity Credit Union: Verity Credit Union is a not-for-profit credit union that serves members in select counties of the state of Washington.
John Zmolek
Chief Executive Officer of Verity Credit Union
John is passionate about helping members empower their financial lives and ensuring that Verity is at the heart of the communities we serve. He began his journey with Verity as a board member in 1986 before joining staff as CFO in 1990. He stepped up to the CEO position on January 1, 2014. In this role, he manages the operations of the credit union while working closely with the board of directors to set the course of the credit union. John received his BS in economics from Iowa State University and his MS from University of California-Davis. He has a hobby of serving on nonprofit boards. Whether kayaking, bicycling or hiking, he likes to be outdoors. When indoors, he loves cooking and entertaining.
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About Verity Credit Union: Verity Credit Union is a not-for-profit credit union that serves members in select counties of the state of Washington.
Celso Pitta
Founder and CEO of BTCjam
Celso Pitta is the Founder and CEO of BTCJam.
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About BTCjam: With $11 million dollars in loan volume and growing, BTCJam has served more than 100,000 users from over 200 countries.
Samuel Reading
OWNER / CEO of Idaho Pawn & Gold
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About : Idaho Pawn & Gold is open and will be servicing Boise, Meridian, Nampa and all of the Treasure Valley.
Samuel Reading
OWNER / CEO of Idaho Pawn & Gold
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About : Idaho Pawn & Gold is open and will be servicing Boise, Meridian, Nampa and all of the Treasure Valley.
