At CFO (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 CFO’ operating in the Lending space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Kristi Matus
CFO/COO of Buckle
Board member and senior executive with direct experience in contributing to business strategy, profitable growth, and enterprise value based on general management and financial acumen, as well as the ability to inspire organizations and people.
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About Buckle, The Buckle: Buckle is the inclusive digital financial services platform serving the rising middle class and providers to the gig economy.
Seth Meyer
CFO of Hercules Capital
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About Hercules Capital: Hercules Capital is a capital market company that lends to technology, life sciences, and sustainable technology companies.
Michael Ward
Managing Director, COO and CFO of Bain Capital
Michael Ward joined Bain Capital in 2003. He leads our investor relations team and is our Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the firm, Michael Ward worked at Digitas for five years and was responsible for day-to-day management as President and Chief Operating Officer, among other roles. Prior to Digitas, Michael Ward spent four years with Bain & Company and nine years with Price Waterhouse. Michael Ward received an MBA from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. He earned a BS in Accounting and Finance and a BAS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Bain Capital: Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.
Richard Correia
CFO of MoneyLion
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About MoneyLion: MoneyLion is a mobile banking platform for borrowing, saving, and investing.
Olivia Man
CFO of LoanSnap
Olivia Man is the Chief Financial Officer at LoanSnap.
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About LoanSnap: LoanSnap is on a mission to improve every American’s finances
Jonathan Coblentz
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Administrative Officer of Oportun
Jonathan Coblentz has served as Oportun’s Chief Financial Officer since July 2009. Prior to joining Oportun, Mr. Coblentz served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of MRU Holdings, Inc., a publicly-traded student loan finance company, from April 2007 to February 2009. Prior to joining MRU Holdings, Mr. Coblentz was a Vice President at Fortress Investment Group, LLC, a global investment management company.Prior to his time at Fortress, Mr. Coblentz spent over seven years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Coblentz began his career at Credit Suisse First Boston, an investment bank, where he worked for nearly five years. Mr. Coblentz received a B.S., summa cum laude, in Applied Mathematics with a concentration in Economics from Yale University.
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About Oportun: Oportun is a fintech company that provides financial services from personal loans to financial resources.
Rayan Rafay
Co-Founder & COO/CFO of Fraction
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About Fraction, Shalifay: Fraction is a technology-based lending platform focused on making residential real estate affordable, flexible, and liquid.
Tom Casey
Chief Financial Officer of Lending Club
Tom Casey is Chief Financial Officer at Lending Club, responsible for overseeing accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax, and investor relations. Before joining Lending Club, Tom was Executive Vice President and CFO at Acelity. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Clear Channel, where he was responsible for overseeing all financial, IT, and shared services activities for the global media and entertainment company specializing in radio, digital, outdoor, mobile, and on demand advertising. Tom has more than 20 years of experience in financial services, including senior financial leadership roles at GE Capital, Washington Mutual, JP Morgan Chase, and Citicorp. Tom has a BS degree in accounting from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
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About Acelity, Lending Club: Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors.
Eric Amblard
CFO of Roostify
Eric Amblard is the CFO & EVP of Corporate Operations at Roostify
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About KXEN, Roostify: Roostify is a digital lending platform that connects customers and lenders to accelerate the home loan experience.
Nathan Barber
CFO of FinMkt
Before joining FinMkt in 2018, Nathan began his career with JPMorgan’s investment banking group in New York and San Francisco. During his tenure there, he worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions and capital raising transactions with software and technology clients. In total, he has advised corporate clients on transactions valued in excess of $12 billion. In addition, Nathan has authored a white paper on marketplace lending and advised a leading institutional fund on issues related to marketplace lending and capital formation.
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About FinMkt: Revolutionizing point of sale financing through our highly customizable SaaS, multi-lender, omni-channel platform.
Barney Briggs
CFO of TF Holdings
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About TF Holdings: TF Holdings provides lenders the ability to rapidly launch an online loan product with market-leading application and servicing features.
Luis Scull
Co-Founder & CFO of Payfully
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About Payfully, Payfully Corporation: The easiest way to access future commissions
Jesse Cushman
CFO of StreetShares Platform
Jesse Cushman is the CFO at [StreetShares](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/streetshares-inc#/entity).
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About StreetShares Platform: StreetShares Platform is a saas technology that powers banks, credit unions, and non-financial organizations.
Usama Ashraf
Chief Financial Officer of Prosper Marketplace
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About Prosper Marketplace: Prosper Marketplace is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions.
Jennifer M. Champagne
EVP & CFO of Community First Bank
Jennifer M. Champagne serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Community First Bank.
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About Community First Bank: Community First Bank is a commercial banking company that provides banking and financial services.
David S. Huffman
CFO of TFS Financial Corporation
David S. Huffman joined Third Federal Savings and Loan in 1993, and has served as the Chief Financial Officer since 2000. Mr. Huffman has more than 30 years experience in the financial institutions industry, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of First American Savings Bank of Canton, Ohio, from 1989 to 1993.
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About TFS Financial Corporation: TFS Financial Corporation operates as a holding company for Third Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland.
Pete Graham
Chief Financial Officer of PRA Group
Pete Graham serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer for PRA Group. Graham is a seasoned finance executive with more than 20 years focused on the financial services industry across a broad range of sectors including lending, leasing, insurance and asset management. Graham joined PRA in 2016 and reports directly to PRA President and Chief Administrative Officer Kevin Stevenson. Graham is a 14-year veteran of General Electric Company (GE), most recently as a finance executive on the GE Capital exit plan team, focused on GE’s disposition of the majority of GE Capital. His previous positions within GE Capital include chief financial officer for GE Commercial Distribution Finance and GE Capital Markets. He also served as global controller for Treasury and Global Funding Operations and controller and manager of Financial Planning and Analysis for GE Asset Management. Prior to joining GE, Graham was with KPMG LLP for 10 years where he led audit and advisory teams serving clients in the financial services industry in insurance, banking, and asset management. His tenure with KPMG included three years living and working in Switzerland while leading teams across Europe. Graham earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Connecticut and is also a Certified Public Accountant.
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About PRA Group: PRA Group offers the following broad range of debt buying solutions and business and government services.
Phillip Ahn
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Great American Group
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About Great American Group: Great American Group provides asset disposition, valuation, appraisal, and commercial lending services for enterprises.
Jason O’Reilly
COO/CFO of DrawBridge Lending
Jason O’Reilly is the COO and CFO at DrawBridge Lending.
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About DrawBridge Lending: DrawBridge offers a lending loans with no margin calls backed by Bitcoin holdings.
Roland Mansilla
Co-Founder, COO & CFO of Safely Finance
Roland Mansilla is the Co-Founder, COO, and CFO of Safely Finance.
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About Safely Finance: We turn large up-front rental costs into approachable multi-month payments
Svetlana Eydelman
Chief Financial Officer of SURETLY
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About SURETLY: Suretly is an international crowdvouching platform.
Kenneth A. Steele
CFO of Hatteras Financial
Mr. Steele is the chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer of our manager and has been our chief financial officer, treasurer and secretary since September 2007. Since September 2002, Mr. Steele has also been the chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer of ACM. Prior to joining ACM, Mr. Steele had been a senior manager with Dixon Odom PLLC, an accounting firm, where he specialized in real estate, financial institutions, and mergers and acquisitions since 1991. He was responsible for the firm’s REIT tax work and for public and private real estate investment partnerships. He also provided consulting services related to corporate finance, commercial and residential development, and equity investment. A certified licensed public accountant, Mr. Steele earned a Masters of Accounting from the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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About Hatteras Financial: Hatteras Financial is an externally-managed mortgage REIT.
Martin Jeffrey Doane
CEO,CFO & Director of Boost Capital
Mr. Martin Jeffrey Doane, B.A, LL.B, serves as the Global Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ubequity Capital Partners Inc., Investment Arm. Mr. Doane serves as the Chairman and President of MeeMee Media Inc. (formerly, EnDev Holdings Inc and No Show, Inc.) since April 2013 and Principal Financial Officer and Treasurer since July 11, 2013. He serves as the Global Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer and is Founding Partner of Ubequity Capital Partners Inc. In 2006, he founded Ubequity Capital Partners, Inc. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Boost Capital Corp.
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About Boost Capital: A UK-based specialist business lender.
Raymond Lombardi
Vice President and CFO of Teledata Communications
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About Teledata Communications: Teledata Communications is a company that specializes in loan organization.
Thomas Keating
CFO of BCB Community Bank
Thomas Keating is the CFO at BCB Community Bank.
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About BCB Community Bank: BCB Community Bank is the wholly-owned subsidiary of BCB Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCBP).
Wade Curtis
Chief Financial Officer of 1031 CrowdFunding
Curtis began his career researching dark matter phenomenon in the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research collaborations used observation data from the Keck Telescope and a Monte Carlo Markov chain technique to explore the mass distributions of distant galaxies. Most recently, Wade Curtis was a Senior Capital Markets analyst with Healthcare Real Estate Group in Irvine, California. In this role Wade Curtis worked directly with the CEO and 3rd party law firms to develop corporate strategies for taking private equity funds through the investment banking cycle to an IPO for public trading. This experience developed excellent proficiencies with securities offerings, capital and corporate structuring, detailed balance sheet & income statement prediction modeling, and business plan development from initial model concepts through feasibility studies, law firm feedback, investment banking review processes, and board of director’s approval. Additionally Wade Curtis has extensive experience in the healthcare sector with Healthcare Real Estate Group where he was involved in EB-5 international fund raising, 1031 exchanges, healthcare real estate construction, acquisition underwriting, executive report creation, and property management metrics. Wade Curtis has previous lending experience with US Bank, and through his consulting firm, has advised on a wide range of entrepreneurial projects in the technology space. Due to Wade Curtis’ extensive mathematical back ground and his proficiencies in multiple programing & data base query languages, he has been instrumental in the development of mission critical algorithms for his consulting clientele. His projects include big data analytics, content prediction algorithms, executive intelligence & report development, and organic search engine optimization techniques. In his free time, Wade Curtis is a science fiction author and strategy game developer. Wade Curtis is currently an MBA candidate at Biola University’s Crowell School of Business.
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About 1031 CrowdFunding: 1031Crowdfunding.com is an investment platform.
Carlos Rosso
CFO, Co-Founder of MR Presta
Expert in credit for small and large companies. Focused on empowering entrepreneurs of tech enabled companies to get financing to grow their businesses. Firm believer that small businesses are the leading edge of world transformation as it relates to innovation, employment, productivity and self fulfillment. Team leader for new businesses and products in multiple jurisdictions.
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About MR Presta: Developing cutting edge technology for Fintechs in origination, credit scoring and servicing around the world.