20-year veteran of Silicon Valley with a background in entrepreneurial finance, new venture creation, deal execution and boots-on-the-ground operations. Currently on the Board of Kueski whose mission is to extend safe, transparent lending products to the emerging middle class of Mexico. Also an advisor to various Fintechs in the gaming, earned wage access, payments, BAAS, lending, CFO tech stack and student loan repayment space. Formerly, the COO of LendUp, a Fintech company for the underbanked creating over one billion in new credit opportunity for the 56% of Americans shut out of mainstream banking. Early career included mergers and acquisitions at BBVA and joint ventures at Shell Oil Company.