Canadian Lenders Association (CLA), the voice of the innovative business and consumer lending industry, announces the Top 25 Lenders of 2019.
“In partnership with BMO, we are excited to continue to celebrate innovation and leadership in Canada’s lending sector,” says Gary Schwartz, President of the CLA. “Today we announce the 25 individuals and 25 companies that have been nominated by their peers and selected by an expert committee.”
One individual and one company will be announced as the category winner at the CLA’s upcomingCanadian Lenders Summit on November 20th at MaRS, Toronto. The 2019 Tiffany & Co crystal awards will be presented by BMO.
“We are proud to sponsor this year’s lenders award that recognizes the world-class achievements of Canadian executives and companies and celebrates a commitment to ethical values, innovation, and leadership in 2019,” said Christine Cooper, Co-Head, Canadian Commercial Banking at BMO Financial Group.
Winners must act in accordance with the values and goals of the CLA as we work to advance the growth of all aspects of Canada’s lending ecosystem includingpolicy, advocacy, standards, innovation, and the adherence to and promotion of best practices as well as commitment to safe and ethical lending standards.
2019 Top Companies in Lending (alphabetically) are:
BDC - www.bdc.ca
Borrowell - borrowell.com
Clearbanc - clearbanc.com
CreditSnap - www.creditsnap.com
Dealnet Capital -www.dealnetcapital.com
Espresso Capital - espressocapital.com
Financeit - www.financeit.io
First West Capital - www.firstwestcapital.ca
Home Trust - www.hometrust.ca
Inverite - www.inverite.com
IOU Financial - IOUFinancial.com
Lending Loop - www.lendingloop.ca
Magical Credit - www.magicalcredit.ca
Manzil - manzil.ca
Marble Financial - marblefinancial.ca
Owl - owl.co
Paays -www.paays.com
PayPal Canada -www.paypal.com
Progressa -progressa.com
Shopify Capital - www.shopify.com/capital
Silicon Valley Bank - www.svb.com
Spring Financial - www.springfinancial.ca
Thinking Capital - https://www.thinkingcapital.ca
Uplift - www.uplift.com
Venbridge - venbridge.com
2019 Top Executives in Lending (alphabetically) are:
Mark Cashin, CEO, myBrokerBee - mybrokerbee.com
Kevin Clark, President, Lendified - www.lendified.com
Avinash Chidambaram, CEO, Ario Platform - www.arioplatform.com
Evan Chrapko, CEO, Trust Science - www.trustscience.com
Jerome Dwight, VP, Cox Automotive Canada - coxautoinc.ca
Saul Fine, CEO, Innovative Assessments - www.iassessments.com
David Gens, CEO, Merchant Growth - www.merchantadvance.com
Bryan Jaskolka, COO, CMI - canadianmortgagesinc.ca
Peter Kalen, CEO, Flexiti - flexiti.com
Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf, CEO, Flinks - flinks.io
Derek Manuge, CEO, Corl - corl.io
Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights - bossinsights.com
Jason Mullins, CEO, goeasy -www.goeasy.com
Paul Pitcher, CEO, SharpShooter Funding - sharpshooterfunding.com
Brendan Playford & Cate Rung, Co-Founders, Pngme - pngme.com
Wayne Pommen, CEO, Paybright - paybright.com
Adam Reeds, CEO, Ledn - ledn.io
Adam Rice, CEO, LoanConnect - loanconnect.ca
Mark Ruddock, CEO, BFS Capital - bfscapital.com
Vlad Sherbatov, President, Smarter Loans - smarter.loans
Steven Uster, CEO, FundThrough - www.fundthrough.com
Dmitry Voronenko, CEO, Turnkey Lender -www.turnkey-lender.com
Neil Wechsler, CEO, Ondeck Canada -www.ondeck.ca
Michael Wendland, CEO, Refresh - refreshfinancial.ca
About CLA
The CLA supports the growth of companies that are in the business of lending, or providing other means of credit, to small businesses and individuals by non-conventional or innovative means to exchange ideas and explore ways of improving the sector; encourage principled and professional practices by Innovative Lenders; educate the public at large about Innovative Lending; encourage individual potential borrowers to be informed about the appropriateness of Innovative Lending to the borrowers’ circumstances; and to advocate on behalf of, and represent the interests of Innovative Lenders..
The CLA promotes transparency and fosters responsible and ethical lending practices. The association supports innovative lending nationally including the technology & business processes that are transforming our financing industry.
To learn more about the CLA, please visit its websites at:www.canadianlenders.org and atwww.canadianlenderssummit.com