CHARM Solutions

Bringing AI/ML to the full Small Business journey.

Co-Founder, President & Chief Revenue Officer

Kickfurther

Kickfurther helps growing product businesses raise funds to enable larger, more cost-effective inventory production runs with their manufacturers.
(Investor/Advisor from March 2015 to June 2017)

Board Member, Advisor

Donovision, LLC

Fintech advisory firm:  raised over $100 million in client debt and equity capital; restructured $500 million online lending platform; managed SMB lending RFP for Fortune 500 Corporate; co-founded crowd funded equity company.

Past roles include:  Circleback Lending (Board/CSO, 2016 / Advisor, 2013 to 2016); UrbanFT (Board 2014 to 2016, Advisor 2021-2022); OfferBoard (co-founder 2013 to 2016); Growthfunding (Founder 2012 to 2013); Dianrong (Advisor 2012 to 2013)

Founder

Tima.vn

Board Member

Unifi Lead Generation

Unifi is a blockchain-based lead generation platform helping partners monetize their user base and enabling advertisers to accurately target customers.   Unifi was created through a partnership with Wheat Financial.

Chief Executive Officer

Bizfi

Restructured inefficient operations of highly-levered SMB lender ($250 million book, $2 billion in originations) and assisted with wind down and sale of assets.

President & CEO

FinSight Ventures

$100M Fintech Venture Fund: Discovered, evaluated, and briefed investment committee on promising Fintech companies.  Board member for Finexkap investment (2014-2016).

Partner

Lending Club

Lending Club is an online lending platform where people borrow and lend money, and get better rates.

EVP, DEVELOPMENT | 2011-2012
Led effort to bring in top talent and migrate COO responsibilities while commuting from Fairfield, Connecticut to San Francisco, California.  Built corporate development function, developed new borrower products and features, and supported key institutional investors.

COO | 2007-2011
First employee and member of founding team.  Played critical role in raising initial start-up angel capital and A/B round financing, built and managed credit risk, finance, treasury and overall operations.  

Board Member | 2007-2009
Member of Board of Directors from inception through B round.

EVP, Chief Operating Officer, Board Member, Co-Founder

Borderfree

Recruited to build and manage corporate and product strategy for this global provider of multi-currency treasury and payment services. Migrated product offering from fx hedging service to one allowing merchants to easily outsource all international sales with no risk and minimal technology development.

Chief Product Officer / Chief Operating Officer

MasterCard

VP, GLOBAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | 2003-2005 | PURCHASE, NY
Provided global leadership for developing new branded products (MasterCard and MasterCard Electronic), product functionality and features, Managed annual product development budget and 40+ member team of direct reports and cross-functional product experts. Interfaced regularly with International Operations Committee (senior bankers from top member banks worldwide) to champion new product features and functionality

VP, DEBIT PRODUCTS | 1998-2003 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Relocated to Brussels and charged with full responsibility for managing Maestro’s global ATM and merchant network. Tasked next with pioneering Maestro’s e-business function, piloting efforts to bring debit cards online. Following full merger of MasterCard and Europay, promoted to manage all debit product development initiatives globally, including CHIP card technology and internet and ISO standards.

VP, GLOBAL SERVICES | 1993-1998 | PURCHASE, NY
Built global customer service infrastructure, managed emergency services and developed new card enhancements, services, and insurance programs.

VARIOUS | 1988-1993 | NEW YORK, NY
Various positions in Finance, Statistics, and Strategic Planning.

Vice President, Global Product Development

Team player who identifies multiple commercial angles for rapid expansion. 
•	Co-Founded LendingClub, scaled operations to $1 billion in loans.
•	Co-Founded Offerboard, crowd funded equity company leveraging the JOBS act.
•	Board member driving record growth for Fintechs in USA, France and Vietnam.
•	Restructured two non-performing companies.
•	Launched new products for Mastercard resulting in 200M+ new cards, $200M+ in incremental revenue and $20B+ in annual spending in 40+ countries.

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