What Marketplace Lenders Need to Know Right Now

Lending Times presents :

What Marketplace Lenders Need to Know Right Now

With:

• Matt Burton, CEO @ Orchard Platform

• Michael Finkelstein, Founder andCEO @ The Credit Junction

• Christian Lawless, Founder and Managing Partner @ Conversion Capital

• George Popescu, Editor-in-Chief @ Lending Times, "The latest trends in Marketplace Lending"

• Brian Korn, Partner @ Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, "First hand experience working with startups in p2p and marketplace lending"

• Ram Ahluwalia, Founder and CEO @ PeerIQ

A discussion hosted by Isabel Verkes and George Popescu, together with our co-sponsors:

Lending Times (http://lending-times.com/), a news, data and analysis portal for the p2p and marketplace lending industries.

Manatt, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjPre6D5KfLAhVCkx4KHRnhAS0QFggeMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.manatt.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNGrHi6T7_HlsdSVJVuvGTn7aHduAw&sig2=6wrYRJl6eXdlO4E8kpjhAw), a progressive and entrepreneurial law firm with offices across the US, representing a sophisticated client base in various industries.

When & Where

When: Thursday April 7, open from 6.30pm

Location: 7 Times Square

• Welcome/networking (30 min)

• Three short speeches (20 min)

• Panel discussion with all five speakers and Q&A with the audience (40 min)

• Closing and networking

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Bios of speakers:

Matt Burton is the CEO of Orchard Platform (http://www.orchardplatform.com/), a technology and infrastructure provider for marketplace lending. Orchard supports operational efficiencies to help institutional investors, investment managers and loan originators connect and transact. Matt has spent his entire career helping build, scale, and optimize the internet’s top advertising exchanges (Google, Admeld, LiveRail) and has overseen trillions of transactions. He is a three time Texas State Tennis Champion and loves racket sports.

Micheal Finkelstein is the CEO and founder of The Credit Junction (http://www.thecreditjunction.com) which is an online lending platform providing working capital financing solutions to small and mid-sized manufacturers, suppliers and distributors. Michael has been an operational and financial executive at primarily high-growth companies within the technology, financial services and infrastructure industries for the past 15 years. Michael started his career in corporate finance at Salomon Brothers.

George A. Popescu is the editor-in-chief of Lending Times (http://lending-times.com), a news, data and analysis portal for the executives of p2p and marketplace lending industries. George built 10+ businesses and exited 4 of them successfully. He was the co-CEO and co-founder of Backed, an online lending marketplace focused on co-signed personal unsecured loans. Previously he sold and exited Boston Technologies (BT) in 2014. BT is a fin-tech company in the currencies over-the-counter space. George was the Founder and CEO and boot-strapped it from $0 to a $20+ million business without any equity investment. BT has been #1 fastest growing company in Boston in 2011 and on the Inc. 500/5000 list 4 years in a row. BT was acquired by Currency Mountain in 2014.

Brian Korn is a partner in the Capital Markets practice group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' (https://www.manatt.com/home.aspx) New York office. His practice focuses on corporate finance transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), early-stage and start up venture financings, and mature corporate and high-yield debt finance. He also advises clients on SEC compliance, broker-dealer compliance and corporate swap transactions. Mr. Korn has made multiple appearances on Fox Business Television, Bloomberg, CCTV America and National Public Radio commenting on the JOBS Act, including its impact on crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, IPOs and market trading dynamics.

Christian Lawless worked in the banking sector before he founded and became the managing partner of Conversion Capital LLC (http://www.conversioncapital.com), an early stage Venture Capital fund. Conversion Capital focusses on the disruption and transformation of Financial Services and analogous sectors, that can leverage technology as a change agent and driver of innovation. Conversion Capital was an early stage investor of marketplace lending businesses and related companies such as Orchard, Osper and EVEN financial.

Ram Ahluwalia was a Senior Vice President at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch before he became the CIO of Winged Foot Capital, an investment advisor responsible for managing an alternatives portfolio via investments in hedge funds, real estate, and late-stage venture capital. As an expert in statistical arbitrage and consumer credit, Ram is currently co-founder and CEO of PeerIQ (http://www.peeriq.com): a credit risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, access and manage risk in the peer-to-peer lending sector.

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