Bio

I have been building innovative companies and high-performing management teams that apply leading-edge data science/technology to big problems throughout my career. As financial services can now be disaggregated/redistributed, and as lending moves to where the data is, there’s a very real opportunity to reshape the global financial landscape, address the needs of the under-banked, while building significant shareholder value. With accelerated digitization of all things, regulatory tailwinds, growth of enabling technologies, and substantial intellectual capital based on lessons learned across markets, these changes are accelerating. I’m currently engaged in driving this change as Co-Founder of Plurall. Activities: Strategy, capital raising, valuation, positioning, team building, talent acquisition, partnerships/alliances, M&A, product<>market fit, roadmap, unit economics/scaling, governance, best practices, tech/data architecture, PR, and risk Current/Recent Advisory Roles: ePesos (FinTech/MX) PagaLoop (Pymnts/MX) Camino Fin’l (FinTech/US) Zenda.la (InsurTech/MX) BienparaBien (FinTech/MX) Rubik (Venture Builder/MX) BizCapital (FinTech/BRA) Mulberry (InsurTech/US) Orchard (SaaS/US) Demystdata (EDaaS/US) Earlier roles: Credibly, CEO/Chairman (‘14-‘18), built tech-enabled SME lending platform - Data Science at the core of the infrastructure - driving outcomes across entire workflow, achieving one of the lowest costs of capital in the industry CEO, CAN Capital (‘01–‘13), built the market-leading FinTech platform - pioneered the Merchant Cash Advance, revolutionizing the delivery of capital to SMEs - at time of my departure, CAN was the largest, most profitable Fintech lender to SMEs, originating $3+ billion - today, MCA is a global product Co-Pres, Merchant Banking, ContiFinancial (‘90-‘99) managing a $2B+ portfolio debt/equity investments - 6 asset verticals - multiple IPO/M&A exits & $10B+ of securitizations.