Monkey Paw Advisors is an advisory firm specializing in growth and commercialization strategies for early and growth stage B2B companies in financial services, technology, and real estate.

Amount is a new breed technology company providing financial institutions with a range of products and services designed to deliver true end-to-end digital customer experiences. Amount includes configurable solutions for account opening and originations, backend engines, digital marketing services, risk and data/analytics, and CRM and portfolio management tools. The Amount platform leverages the technology, intellectual property and capabilities developed over +8 years as the technology underpinning Avant's industry-leading digital lending platform. With Amount, banks and non-bank originators like Avant, now gain access to a fully customizable platform that includes tools for credit decisioning, fraud prevention, account verifications, risk assessment, marketing and customer acquisition and more. For more information, visit www.amount.com.

Responsible for building and leading the business development and strategic partnerships team. Avant is a high growth fintech company first and foremost dedicated to creating responsible financial products for all consumers. Avant has secured more than $4 billion in institutional funding and has issued over 1-million personal loan, auto loan and credit card products through its lending platform. Avant has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg and Crain's Chicago Business. In 2015, Avant was named to Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list as well as Forbes list of Next Billion Dollar Startups. Find out more at www.avant.com. Avant has raised over $650MM equity funding. Investors include, General Atlantic, JPMorgan Chase, RRE Ventures, Peter Thiel, QED, KKR, Tiger Global, DFJ Growth, Victory Park Capital, August Capital and others.

Expert at forging long term strategic alliances with executives within Top 100 bank and non-bank lending institutions resulting in strategic investments in distressed consumer and commercial portfolios across multiple asset classes.