About Craig Focardi

• Broadly and deeply experienced FinTech executive and advisor to C-suite banking and IT executives in retail lending and banking. Still a mortgage banker at heart. • Diverse experience advising on, developing and implementing business plans, new products and services for pre-IPO, technology growth, and publicly-traded companies • Accomplished business unit manager with successful track record hiring, developing and managing virtual teams; attaining revenue goals and managing expenses. • Key strengths in the areas of new FinTech lending business models, analytics and pricing, core systems, rearchitecting the IT stack for the cloud, and digital document management to create the future of lending. • Leverage multi-disciplinary experience in lending, banking, finance, economics, marketing and IT across smaller startup firms and large enterprises, to re-imagine how business models will change. • Write research and advise clients on the strategic application of technology within their businesses. • Widely quoted in the banking and technology press including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, American Banker, Mortgage Banking magazine and Lending Strategy (UK).