
I am seasoned fintech and software entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in building companies from start to successful exit. FINTECH MILESTONES • Point person on taking credit card, POS embedded finance, Lending-as-a-Service, national bank partnerships and online acquisition channels from 0 to 1 at Oportun. • Co-Founder & CEO of Sociogramics, a pioneering social/alternative data platform for underwriting and fraud management. Investors included Greylock, Trinity and QED. • First marketing executive and employee #7 at Clean Power Finance, the first solar financing platform to include SaaS-based account quoting tools for installers. The company has raised over $1B and is now known as Spruce Finance with funding from Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures. • Co-Founder and President of FastFind, an online account acquisition service for mortgage and credit card lenders. Our lead investor was Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans, and we sold FastFind to Bankrate.com in <2 years. • Vice President of Corporate Development at Providian Financial. Our team invested in PayPal pre-IPO, lead all company initiatives in P2P, EBPP, online account aggregation (e.g. Yodlee) and e-wallets. Lead multiple transactions to spin-off card portfolios and non-core assets (e.g. GetSmart sale to LendingTree). FUNCTION-SPECIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS • Built FP&A teams from bottom-up at three startups. • Grew sales from $0 to $6mm in less than 12 months at FastFind. • Grew EBITDA from negative $500k to positive $1.5mm and sales by 50% in less than 12 months at ClickSafety. • Reduced shipping costs 40% and FTE 30% while increasing package throughput 40% at Elemental LED. I have been a speaker at multiple fintech events to include Money 20/20, CFSI EMERGE and Online Lenders Alliance, been quoted in articles re the impact of social data on lending and hold a US Patent on the use of social data in employment verification for lending.
elementalled.com
sandhillangels.com
viantgroup.com
athenstargetgroup.com
usi.com
oportun.com
bankrate.com
Irvine, California, United States
Chief of Staff
LendAPI
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Jul 2025 - Present
Senior Advisor
99FinTech
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May 2024 - Present
Irvine, California, United States
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
SuperMoney
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Jul 2024 - Jul 2025
Tustin, California, United States
Principal
Astarka Advisors
May 2023 - Jul 2024
Irvine, California, United States
Vice President and General Manager, Oportun Enterprise Platform
Oportun
• www.linkedin.com/company/oportun
Jan 2021 - May 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Director, Strategy and Corporate Development
Oportun
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Jun 2017 - Jan 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
sprucepower.com